Lakota and medicine
Mitakuye Oyasin
Traditional, in Lakota
A Lakota-rooted chant honoring kinship with all relations and Pachamama.
- Category
- Lakota
---
title: "Mitakuye Oyasin"
artist: "Traditional"
key: "Em"
tags: ["chant", "earth", "sacred", "participatory"]
description: "A Lakota-rooted chant honoring kinship with all relations and Pachamama."
language: "lkt"
tradition: "Lakota"
date_added: "2026-07-19"
---
## About this song
The source gives Am and C as parenthesized alternatives to the two Em chords in the vocable section.
```chords
[Verse]
Em
Mitakuye Oyasin
Em
Mitakuye Oyasin
G
Mitakuye Oyasin
D
Mitakuye Oyasin
[Vocables]
Em
Oooooh
Em
iyee iyee
C
Oooooh
D
Pachamama
```
About this song
The source gives Am and C as parenthesized alternatives to the two Em chords in the vocable section.
Verse
EmMitakuye Oyasin
EmMitakuye Oyasin
GMitakuye Oyasin
DMitakuye Oyasin
Vocables
EmOooooh
Emiyee iyee
COooooh
PachaDmama