Frank Waln

Lakota | music artist, performer & public speaker | streaming on all platforms | booking: frankwalnbooking@gmail

[yaso 🦋🏵 @orangeblossombi]

"They hold our mouths shut and tell us that we are voiceless, fuck that!"
-@FrankWaln

[Polyrical.com @polyrical]

"There's been genocide in Palestine, I seen it with my own eyes"

There are many parallels between genocide in the Americas and genocide in Palestine. Both are settler-colonial projects with the goal of replacing indigenous peoples with foreign settlers.

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

Today is the anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre when the US military murdered hundreds of unarmed Lakotas & buried them in a mass grave which sits about 45 min away from where I grew up

I wrote an article about it for the school library journal

https://t.co/fM55J2mLgq

[Nick Estes @nickwestes]

This isn't the first genocide the United States has tried to normalize. Nor will it be the first it has tried to memory hole.

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

@HexPositive @LatinoJournosCA Congratulations!

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@RudyIndigenous My own worst enemy

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LMFAO

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

@danielleboyerr Same! I’ve never been to place like that or that far north before so it was a whole new experience for me

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

@charitieropati I took some more photos by it and some shots of just the firewood alone too 😩

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

@_linainverse You just gave me the idea I needed to bring it back full circle. Thank you!

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

Also everyone needs to understand that music artists get robbed by streaming services. I get roughly $0.005 per Spotify stream. Online music sales are literally the revenue stream with the least amount of income when it comes to my business and music

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@Bitterblue55 Thank you!

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My cover of “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac and on native flute is always a crowd favorite at my live shows

I completely reimagined the song, slowed it up a lot and put my spin on it

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

Also ancestors knew this. That’s why some songs are only sung in ceremony amongst other things

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

I really love videos that show how music and sound cause vibrations and waves in physical space and elements. I know I’m obviously biased but music is so powerful. Watch this and imagine our bodies are around 80% water and you can start to see how music effects us in so many ways

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

These are edge induced faraday waves

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

I studied the science behind all of this when I got a BA in audio arts & acoustics. I even had to do the math that calculates the frequency of the note this wave represents 😭 but just know music and sound are way more powerful & magical than western science can even understand

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

@AimeeRoseHunter It’s track #5 on the last album I released titled In the Key of Lakota and it’s available on all streaming services and YouTube. I also released “dreams” as a single in 2021 before I released the album. Both links are below

https://t.co/3zuKBQ3UU2

https://t.co/T5YSe0vC1X

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

@badbyesky That would be a dream come true! Outkast is one of my biggest inspirations 🪈🎶✨

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