Heather Dale: Huron Carol, in 4 languages (Huron, French, English, American Sign Language)

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  • @fouellet1701
    @fouellet1701 5 років тому +76

    It is believed that this carol was written probably in 1642 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Ontario. Beautifully rendered by Heather! Thanks for this beautiful video.

    • @Jc-ue2vh
      @Jc-ue2vh 2 роки тому +4

      It is believed to be written during his voyage through lake Erie into the Detroit river. The Huron mission of Our lady of Assumption is located in Windsor Ontario. This id most likely the first church is was every sung in.

    • @brucealanwilson4121
      @brucealanwilson4121 Місяць тому

      @@fouellet1701 The tune is an old French carol.

    • @fouellet1701
      @fouellet1701 Місяць тому +1

      @@brucealanwilson4121 : Likely an old French song called "Une jeune pucelle" (A young maid).

    • @MelanieWillard
      @MelanieWillard 16 днів тому

      Just read a small blurb about this in BBC History magazine last night.

  • @baroqueman1
    @baroqueman1 Місяць тому +7

    The melody for this touching Nativity song is a close variant of '' La Pucelle'', originating in late 16th cent. France. It has always been popular, often incorporated in ''Noels'' for the organ, and notably as a theme in some of the movements in MA Charpentier's '' Messe de Minuit'' of the 1690s. There is also an amazing set of variations for a consort of viols composed by Eustace Du Caurroy during the reign of Henri of Navarre. However, this original-style version is most appealing in its simplicity.
    Thank you for posting this.

  • @sarahcraig2915
    @sarahcraig2915 2 місяці тому +10

    We have used this version, with the simple chant in a number of Christmas performances. This year we are doing this version with a Children’s choir at a school! Thank you for including lyrics in the video

  • @AnneDowson-vp8lg
    @AnneDowson-vp8lg Місяць тому +5

    I'm English, and have never heard this beautiful Huron Carol before, but I'm glad I did. I am fascinated by Indigenous North American culture and people, as my grandfather met a chief in Kansas just before the First World War. Unfortunately, due to misunderstanding about where it was, I don't know the nation or anything else, and Grandad died in 1962 when I was only 11, so I never got to ask him any important questions. Anyway, I wish everyone in Canada and the USA a very Happy Christmas from Yorkshire, England.

  • @bzsmith4420
    @bzsmith4420 6 днів тому

    Love listening to this. And grateful to the Wyandotte Nation here in the US for its very active efforts to restore our ancient Wendat language!

  • @georgiastay
    @georgiastay 7 років тому +46

    Huron is a beautiful language and at my school lots of kids were laughing at her when she had that piece of fabric and waving it around but its part of a culture and its beautiful and you did a amazing job of this video

    • @DarkR0ze
      @DarkR0ze 7 років тому +9

      Kristol Abel That piece of fabric -- I think -- is supposed to represent The Holy Spirit moving or dancing

    • @bzsmith4420
      @bzsmith4420 4 роки тому +25

      The language is called "Wendat," not Huron. An easy mistake. Prior to European contact, the People were known as The Wendat. Later they were named Huron by the French, and their own name was re-spelled Wyandotte (sometimes Wyandot). This is one of the Algonquian languages, like many First Nations People of Canada and the U.S. I am a member of Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. We are working with diligence to revive our language. Videos like this can be part of our reclamation of our language. We all are grateful for deepening understanding of the importance of reclaiming our traditions, which begin with our language.

    • @shannonestes5058
      @shannonestes5058 4 роки тому

      I know right are you a student?

    • @peterswire6027
      @peterswire6027 2 роки тому

      Our cultural differences can make Canada stronger if we choose to let the Christmas story really sink in.

    • @sophiaschier-hanson4163
      @sophiaschier-hanson4163 2 роки тому +2

      Joke is on those mean kids. Waving the fabric around rhythmically is a lovely choice to translate foreign language background chanting into ASL. Would love to see some LSQ too! :)

  • @paleologue
    @paleologue 4 роки тому +26

    I just want to say, it is a beautiful song and you sing it better than anyone else on UA-cam. Also, I want to say that your sign language translators are AWESOME! I know virtually nothing about sign language but when I turned the volume off and watched I could grasp some of the things they were saying because they are so expressive. And, just a small aside, I'm an educator in Texas and I have a ton of respect for you folks in Canada. Your national respect of aboriginal american cultures and traditions should be modeled her in the USA. Ironically, we have TEKS in Texas...they stand for Texas Essential Knoweldge and Skills. Sadly, there is almost no deference to native American traditions. But your Canadian TEKs (Traditional Ecological Knowledge) is to be admired. I wish we had the same sensitivities in the US.

    • @Angel-rq3pi
      @Angel-rq3pi 2 роки тому

      Canada's history re: their govt and IMMIGRANTS' treatment of First Nations people is as heinous and deplorable as the US.... Just saying

    • @paleologue
      @paleologue 2 роки тому +1

      @@Angel-rq3pi Wherever Europeans have colonized the western hemisphere, indigenous people have suffered. No doubt. But Canada's interaction with indigenous peoples is not the same in degree as the US. The US has a far darker interaction with native peoples than Canada, that is certain. It's not apples and apples.

  • @brucealanwilson4121
    @brucealanwilson4121 Місяць тому +4

    I learned it to slightly different words:"Twas in the Moon of Wintertime when all the birds had fled/That mighty Geechee Manitou /Sent angel tribes instead. . ."

    • @nctpti2073
      @nctpti2073 Місяць тому

      Or 'sent Angel choirs' but yes, that is the version I learned as well

    • @alixwithani8250
      @alixwithani8250 Місяць тому

      This is the first verse! The two english verses here are from later in the same song!

  • @brucekemp2578
    @brucekemp2578 3 роки тому +12

    This video is quite well done. It does seem that since this Christmas Carol was meant for Huron People, that it should be heard in a Huron Language first. In this case the English version should not take precidence. Hopefully this can help people have some appreciation of the Huron Culture.

  • @forexed8948
    @forexed8948 2 роки тому +6

    It's always a miracle that these first nations languages can live among us today, they are too valuable, and the world is less for the death of them when they are lost.

  • @BombastusSchmitz
    @BombastusSchmitz 20 днів тому

    It's grand - it makes me cry.

  • @peterswire6027
    @peterswire6027 2 роки тому +1

    The mix of languages and the message of hymn offer all healing and hope is the troubled world. Despite all of our differences, we are truly one.

  • @garthlow4852
    @garthlow4852 Рік тому +1

    Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

  • @hjcd1231
    @hjcd1231 4 роки тому +5

    Absolutely gorgeous! I maybe part Native American but I am a firm believer in my roots. I do celebrate Christmas and I am normally not a fan of traditional Christmas music but this is phenomenal! Thank you!

  • @BiddyTheYounger
    @BiddyTheYounger Місяць тому

    This brought me to tears: the melody, the drum, the voice, the ASL interpreter. Beautiful.

  • @gunnarthorsen
    @gunnarthorsen 4 роки тому +6

    With the coming of Christianity, brought by the Jesuits, many Hurons had to choose between their new Christian faith and their traditional spiritual beliefs, family structures, and community ties. Kinship in their society had been matrilineal; all members of the tribe participated in tribal governance. Agriculture was part and parcel of the Huron way of life. All creatures and things were respected and were thought to possess a spirit. In addition to attempts to Christianize the Huron, attempts were also made to "Europeanize" them, and this had a direct affect on those elements that had for centuries held them together as a people. In 1639, a smallpox epidemic That was brought by Europeans reached the Huron tribes, and when it ended their population had been reduced to roughly 9000 people, half of what it had been before.
    Thanks to the European presence and the upheaval that it brought to Huron culture, rampant disease, economic dependency, and attacks by the Iroquois (who saw the Huron weaken) further reduced the Huron population and created rifts in its society. The causes of Huron decline also prompted many of the natives to convert to Catholicism. In the late 1640s, villages that had been left demoralized and leaderless often converted en masse, but the triumph of conversion was short-lived, for the Iroquois essentially wiped out the Huron nations in 1649.
    Factionalized politically, socially, culturally, and religiously, the Huron took a final blow to their cohesiveness through these violent attacks. Terrified at the prospect of further attacks, the survivors began to flee. By the end of March, fifteen Huron towns had been abandoned. Many Huron were absorbed by the Iroquois, while others were incorporated into neighboring tribes. One party of Huron people had escaped to Île St. Joseph, but with their food supplies destroyed, and they soon faced starvation. Those who left the island in search of game, risked encountering Iroquois raiders who hunted down the hunters with a ferocity that stunned Jesuit observers. A small group of Catholic Huron eventually followed the Jesuits back to Québec City.
    We feel joy and peace as we hear this beautiful Christmas carol, sung in the Huron language, and thank God for sending Christians to lead them out of "savageness", but should do so with mixed feelings. The Huron had a beautiful culture and way of life before Christianity came. Their westernized and Christian descendants no doubt felt good about their way of life as well, but sadness also fills the heart over what was lost.

  • @wbworkout
    @wbworkout 6 років тому +10

    This was such a moving performance, thank you!

  • @johnscott8390
    @johnscott8390 Місяць тому +1

    A beautiful rendition of that special song

  • @MissGaelSML
    @MissGaelSML Місяць тому +1

    I love this version! It's my favorite of all that I've heard.

  • @abinavon
    @abinavon Рік тому +1

    Beautiful version of the Huron Carol!

  • @SuperApoet
    @SuperApoet 4 роки тому +4

    Wow, goosebumps. That is stunning

  • @lauraharding8182
    @lauraharding8182 4 роки тому +3

    Wow! It has taken me years to find a version of this that does it justice. And here we are. Thank you! My favorite carol.

  • @ruthviebrock4361
    @ruthviebrock4361 2 місяці тому +1

    Unglaublich schön gesungen und umgesetzt! Auch die Unterstimme! Danke, danke, danke!

  • @witneyskye5556
    @witneyskye5556 3 роки тому +3

    The most beautiful and truthful rendition of this song. Your voice is so clear, so understandable, so easy to listen to. Beautiful, all around.

  • @usedx115x
    @usedx115x 4 роки тому +4

    Hey Heather, I first heard this song in elementary school when learning Canadian history and I always loved it. Its been in my youtube playlists for something like a decade now. Thanks for the beautiful rendition!

  • @wzardglick
    @wzardglick Місяць тому

    I learned Huron Carol when I was playing with a mandolin orchestra. Became one of my favorites.
    To see it performed like that with ASL (that I only know a little) might have made me cry a little. Probably some dust in the air...

  • @ralphlw
    @ralphlw 2 роки тому +1

    I've recently discovered this carol, and I absolutely love this beautiful rendition. Merci bien!

  • @seandegidon4672
    @seandegidon4672 4 роки тому +2

    Wow, a beautiful song, an amazing history, and a luminous testament to the Faith! 😇✝📿

  • @birbluv9595
    @birbluv9595 2 роки тому +1

    What a beautiful song, and Heather’s voice is perfect. Love the sign language too!

  • @ElBattaliador
    @ElBattaliador 2 роки тому

    The best X-mas gift I ever got

  • @johntabler349
    @johntabler349 Рік тому

    There's a beauty To the Huron language and I have deep respect and admiration for the mastery of the annunciation

  • @strange_imagination_
    @strange_imagination_ Рік тому

    I remember singing this in my grade 6 class for the Christmas choir, and still remember some of the lyrics despite only knowing French and english as my primary languages

  • @poges
    @poges 6 років тому +2

    love the song just found when looking at the huron carol utube vids. thanks so much for a rich experience.

  • @OCCA
    @OCCA 2 роки тому

    Lovely lovely work. a favorite carol of mine for many years. Loved hearing it in Huron.

    • @sophiaschier-hanson4163
      @sophiaschier-hanson4163 2 роки тому

      Heyyy you have my nameday saint! Merry belated or slightly early Christmas this New Year’s Eve! ☦️🤗💕

  • @sandicampbell3252
    @sandicampbell3252 2 роки тому

    What a happy accidnent, that I came across this randomly on You Tube! Thank you for this beautiful rendition.

  • @tuqutey
    @tuqutey 7 років тому +10

    This is one of my favorites that you do Heather. But, watching the visual representation that you have put with it, it's inspiring and moving. Thank you for bringing the gift of your storyteller in ASL to all of us. I sure do miss you. Hopefully we will be able to meet up again in one of our countries. Happy Christmas!

  • @kimberlyhornby9595
    @kimberlyhornby9595 5 років тому +2

    Beautiful as always Heather. I especially love the multi-lingual aspect

  • @Winaska
    @Winaska Місяць тому

    this is definitely a different egnlish version than Ive ever heard elsewhere

  • @MissGaelSML
    @MissGaelSML 3 роки тому +1

    I love this video and the translations you use. This is my favorite version of one of my favorite carols!

  • @damianneubecker471
    @damianneubecker471 Місяць тому

    Very Beautiful!

  • @percpianogal9402
    @percpianogal9402 2 роки тому

    I am doing this as a final song at the winter concert this year.

  • @janetkelly223
    @janetkelly223 Рік тому

    what a beautiful song, voice, and presentation, how inspiring to listen to this. thank you

  • @faziah1163
    @faziah1163 2 роки тому

    MERCI ❤️
    VERY BEAUTIFUL 💖
    Merry Christmas 🎄

  • @tblairhug1
    @tblairhug1 4 роки тому

    made me cry....

  • @eskimo1956
    @eskimo1956 6 років тому +1

    just wow!
    thank-you for this beautiful cultural totem reflecting the deep history of our great nation - and in so many communication forms!

  • @chriss3030
    @chriss3030 2 роки тому

    I wish I could speak all those languages and sing as well as you can Heather, but I will the leave the singing and sign language to you, and your associates. Certainly adds more depth to the song, and reaches a group that normally wouldn't get to enjoy the song the traditional way. I like it, and I wish you and your friends/ associates much more success.

  • @soundsproofu.s9686
    @soundsproofu.s9686 7 років тому +2

    What a beautiful voice

  • @cliffsandifer3877
    @cliffsandifer3877 4 роки тому

    wonderfully done, sung. I hear in my musicians ear, didgeridoo and percussion,... love the use of French and Huron. I am more divinely touched by Huron carol and the languages than by the "forced" up bringing that i naively had

  • @archivboy
    @archivboy 7 років тому +1

    One of my favorites of yours, Heather. Thanks for making it part of your project.

  • @stevefahnestalk8500
    @stevefahnestalk8500 5 років тому +1

    Heather, you are amazing! I love this!

  • @EricMartizen
    @EricMartizen Рік тому

    Beautiful.

  • @fr.perrypetrichsj8851
    @fr.perrypetrichsj8851 3 роки тому +3

    hi! i teach 9th grade theology at a Jesuit school, and one of my students just askedwhy you wanted to learn Huron originally. What got you into it?

  • @MayaZhao
    @MayaZhao Рік тому

    It is beautiful

  • @ellieorozco5392
    @ellieorozco5392 7 років тому +1

    really beautiful voice u got there😊👌😁. I also have to do that song for a christmas celebration in my school.

  • @DarkR0ze
    @DarkR0ze 7 років тому +7

    thanks for the lyrics, it's very hard to sing for non-indigenous people to sing them with non-phonetic spelling

  • @catmom1322
    @catmom1322 2 роки тому

    Beautiful!

  • @shannonkoeller8378
    @shannonkoeller8378 2 роки тому

    Love this!

  • @abbyarmas3520
    @abbyarmas3520 3 роки тому +1

    Awesome wow so good

  • @jdish7485
    @jdish7485 Рік тому

    so beautiful!!

  • @CianMcCarthyMusic
    @CianMcCarthyMusic 5 років тому +2

    So cool, Heather!! I've just subscribed! Its vibe is like something that could have been used at the end of one of "The Hobbit'' films (thus making them better!!).

  • @RediChalyn
    @RediChalyn 7 років тому +3

    After two days of non stop listening and breaking down the lyrics, I learned how to sing along with you!! I love all your music and I'm gonna sing this at my family's Christmas get together when we all do "presentations" (it's like a talent show)!! How on earth do you not get tongue tied though??

    • @HeatherDale
      @HeatherDale  7 років тому +2

      Fantastic! It takes a lot of practice - I practice lyrics while I'm driving, while I'm cooking, while I'm watching TV (although that drives other people crazy!) Good luck with singing it :)

    • @sohaahmadi2573
      @sohaahmadi2573 5 років тому

      @@HeatherDale It's absolutely gorgeous - definitely my favourite. I first heard of it after playing it with my as youth orchestra awhile back and my mom adores this as well. Now i can learn it vocally too!

  • @johnscott8390
    @johnscott8390 8 місяців тому

    I've heard this song many times and this rendition becomes one of my favorites Thank-you for this version.

  • @klitoskyriakou1254
    @klitoskyriakou1254 5 років тому +1

    Wow love. Your voice More please!! Either if i dont understand what they are staying 😀

  • @SteppingRaven56
    @SteppingRaven56 7 років тому

    Thank you for a lovely video of this song in this winter season.

  • @lauraopper2571
    @lauraopper2571 4 роки тому

    This is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing it.

  • @katyharries2526
    @katyharries2526 2 роки тому

    Beautiful ❤

  • @WarrenPostma
    @WarrenPostma 5 років тому

    Thank you. I have chills.

  • @realism51
    @realism51 5 років тому

    been following you since before youtube, this is very interesting and nice. A unique moment out of the last 7 years I have been a fan and following. the sign langauge is an incredible inclusion

  • @janeller1687
    @janeller1687 4 роки тому

    Beautiful! We loved it!

  • @AedeusLeonora
    @AedeusLeonora 7 років тому

    I love this song, and the sign language is really beautiful too!

  • @shannonestes5058
    @shannonestes5058 4 роки тому

    Beautiful god bless you all through this corona virus and have a merry Christmas! 2020

  • @PleaseNThankYou
    @PleaseNThankYou Місяць тому

    How did "the Scroll" know I wondered what the ASL would look like.😮😂 **Please reenact John Denver's American Indian sign for the prayer OUR FATHER.** ua-cam.com/video/McLtmi33YeU/v-deo.htmlsi=uPNlwMh7BCKSzg2u

  • @JohnBobRoger
    @JohnBobRoger 5 років тому +1

    We sang that song in public school....I am from Huronia.

  • @RenayEmond
    @RenayEmond 4 роки тому

    Wow😳even trying to subscribe to you was difficult
    What's going on?
    Hope these Boulders can be overcome by us Genuine people
    Sending Healing Vibes Big Love, Many Mercies and All of the Blessings ✌🏽🙏🏽❤

  • @ApprenticePL
    @ApprenticePL 4 роки тому

    Beautiful work! 💛

  • @Anansii
    @Anansii 7 років тому

    Wow. Thanks for this, it's gorgeous!

  • @PsychedelicChameleon
    @PsychedelicChameleon 7 років тому +3

    Hi Heather, I've watched and listened to this from two different links now, you've done a beautiful job! What do you mean by "culturally deaf storyteller"? Do you mean a story tellers that are deaf and that each tell stories from a particular culture?

    • @lysanamcmillan7972
      @lysanamcmillan7972 7 років тому +7

      "Culturally Deaf" means the person is part of Deaf culture. As they have their own languages (sign languages like ASL are not merely re-delivered spoken languages but have their own origins and grammatical rules), the storytellers from that space are doing it from that linguistic and social perspective. There are deaf people who are not part of Deaf culture for various reasons (as a hearing person, I might be able to guess some of why but I'm far from an expert and will refrain).

    • @PsychedelicChameleon
      @PsychedelicChameleon 7 років тому +1

      Thank You!

    • @jodiebug1
      @jodiebug1 5 років тому

      Lysana McMillan Just to add there are hearing people who, though not deaf, are part of deaf culture for various reasons, such as having deaf parents. I’m guessing she said “culturally deaf” because some of the storytellers might have some hearing. That and what counts as “deaf” can get very contentious.

  • @art4023
    @art4023 4 роки тому +3

    where does people speak Huron?? I have never heard of it

    • @knickel3280
      @knickel3280 Місяць тому +5

      The language is Wendat and it is a native language spoken in Northern Ontario in Canada.

    • @severianmonk7394
      @severianmonk7394 19 днів тому

      Am I wrong for thinking that the last native speakers were still alive in L'ancienne Lorette by Ville Quebec a few years ago?

  • @hollyolson8048
    @hollyolson8048 6 років тому

    💘 this version you both have lovely singing voices.

  • @bethholmes1591
    @bethholmes1591 2 роки тому

    It’s so beautifully presented! ❤ But these are NOT the words to The Huron Carol!!!
    And the “Transcipt” is all screwed up for the Huron lyrics.

  • @mikepictor
    @mikepictor 7 років тому +1

    I was wondering if you'd get LSQ interpretation for the French parts. :)

    • @HeatherDale
      @HeatherDale  7 років тому +1

      We talked about it, Mike! But we decided it had more impact this way - since the lyrics are saying (pretty much) the same thing in each language.

    • @DarkR0ze
      @DarkR0ze 7 років тому

      dang! I was hoping that it would be in LSQ

  • @Angel-rq3pi
    @Angel-rq3pi 2 роки тому

    The song refers to "Mary Maid" bore Jesus... Maid meaning "not married".... Interesting.

  • @tyronrichardson1037
    @tyronrichardson1037 Рік тому

    Praise be to Christ the Messiah. Hearing chants and hymns in multiple languages show Jesus is Lord of all races and tribes, the Saviour of mankind

  • @christianali5431
    @christianali5431 7 років тому +7

    Praise be to Jesus Christ. Blessed is the calf who’s skin covers the nakedness of the world.

  • @juventutem
    @juventutem 5 років тому +1

    Praised be Jesus Christ, Prince of Peace, Saviour of the World!

  • @cataclem28
    @cataclem28 2 роки тому

    As I understand just the french and English speaking are deaf...

  • @gabriellebiggar1771
    @gabriellebiggar1771 Рік тому

    🌺🏹❤️💛🤍🖤 🥖🥞Bannock do knot burn!!! No offense but we do knot like bagels anymore! 👇

  • @gabriellebiggar1771
    @gabriellebiggar1771 Рік тому +1

    Meegwetch Aani Dansi Lily ⚜️ of The Mohawks ST. Bidh Cecilia, a 'bualadh air na claisean a-muigh air Latha na Nollaige ann an ainm Iosa 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔 🔔🔔🔔‍♀ 🔔🔔🔔AMEN

  • @jonathangeorge5599
    @jonathangeorge5599 2 роки тому

    Excellent rendition, but unsure what waving a scarf around has to do with Jesus' birth and the Epiphany, much less St. Jean de Breibeuf's mission to the Huron.

    • @joshandallo2170
      @joshandallo2170 2 роки тому

      The scarf that Heather was waving around was meant to metaphorically represent the Holy Spirit.

    • @jonathangeorge5599
      @jonathangeorge5599 2 роки тому

      @@joshandallo2170 ...ok... Didn't come across. Just looks like yet another older white woman waving a scarf around and claiming it as spiritual expression. 🤷‍♂️ Then again, I've never understood the appeal of liturgical dance in the first place. Seems to me the song here, and the Mass, in general, are self sufficient to express the glory of God.

  • @CVogel-jq9jk
    @CVogel-jq9jk Рік тому

    lol

  • @danafawadleh3160
    @danafawadleh3160 2 роки тому

    Noel doesn't exist in the Bible, I'm so sorry this one is a blasphemy, Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2 (Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:5-6). (Hosea 11:1, Matthew 2:15). read it all. I'm a Christian I'm not suppose to lie.