Wolf Nation

Album: Sacred Mother (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song from the contemporary Native American singer Shelley Morningsong deals with the wolves, which are sacred in her culture but also endangered. "Here in New Mexico the gray wolf are beginning to make a comeback," she said in a Songfacts interview. "I wanted to write and sing a song that would honor our Wolf Nation."

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