Tunkasila / Tunkasila

Hear me as I pray

Tunkasila / Tunkasila

May you guide each step on this earthly way

And as I walk...May I always remember

The trials of my sisters and brothers

And may I know them with a heart of compassion

May I know each one

Through your perfect love

Tunkasila, Tunkasila, Tunkasila, Oh Tunkasila

Tunkasila / Tunkasila

Hear me as I pray

Tunkasila / Tunkasila

May you guide each step on this earthly way

And may I live

By the ways you have given

In service on this earth

Oh, may we walk as one

And may I know in my heart all my relations

May I know each one

Through your perfect love

Tunkasila, Tunkasila, Tunkasila, Oh Tunkasila

Tunkasila, wowakan nan wowaste unyak'upiki hena wopila unkeniciyapelo

(Grandfather, the sacred and good things you have given to us. We say thank you for them)

Yuwanjila maunipi kte lo Tunkasila

(We walk as one, Grandfather)

Nan wowahwala, wotakuye, wicozani, nan wicouncage, Tunkasila, yuha naunjinpi ktelo. Tunkasila.

(...and tranquility, making of relations, welll-being, and the growth of all things, Grandfather...are what we will stand with Grandfather.)

Mitakuwe iyuha unsiwicunlapi nan, Tunkasila, iyuskinyan unipi ktelo, Tunkasila.

(All of my relations, we will love...and Grandfather, we will live joyfully. Grandfather.)

Tunkasila, Tunkasila / Hear me as I pray.