---
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
```