Young Arapaho musicians aren't learning their own traditional music.

"Here we are with our own songs yet we’re not satisfied with them. We want to do what somebody else is doing. We’re not maintaining our songs here. We’re not doing anything to keep on that. On down through years I’m just telling you how it’s been changing. We’re trying to sing like other tribes. And now you can go to any pow-wow you’re gonna hear the Arapaho drums, and hear them singing just like it was the other people. Sound like mosquitoes, real high-pitched voices. They are not using their own natural given voices. They’re going with what sounds good to them. Of course that’s probably true of all music but what I’m saying is Arapaho’s should keep their music going even if they’re catching on to the other. Because right now they’re having a hard time getting somebody to sing the flag song, to sing an honor song, some certain song. Can’t get em, yet these drum groups can sing different tribe’s songs, with words. Yet they don’t understand our language, yet they catch the words yet they can’t even catch their own Arapaho songs."