The Star People

The tape is an early 1980s recording of an unidentified Cree man talking about and then singing a “Star-People Song.” He says the song is meant to be sung to the Matootisan Asiniuk, the sweat-lodge rocks: the Pleiades.

The Cree people came down to Earth from that lodge as spirits, and then took human form. Sometimes the Star People come down to share wisdom or to take people with them up to the stars. Sing it someplace high up. The Ghost Mountain might be best.

Pressed for more, he dismissively says the Star People can’t be described. Some legends say they look like stars come down to visit. “The Star People are great people. They haven’t been on Earth a long time like my people. Who knows what shape they will take?”