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Scale over 5 octaves Pentatonic Scale - C Major. Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous peoples of North America, including Native Americans in the United States and Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, and other North American countries—especially ...
The Black Lodge Singers won the Native American Music Awards of several occasions, including 1998 Best Powwow Album, 2000 Debut Group, and 2004 Best Powwow Music. [1] In collaboration with R. Carlos Nakai and William Eaton, they were nominated for the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for Ancestral Voices.
This is a list of American Indian music by group or tribal nation.See: American Indian music. Aleut music: people; Algonquin music: people. Menominee music: people; Odawa music: people
Their most recent album, California Pow Wow, was released by SOAR Records in June, 2004, and won the 2005 Native American Music Award for Best Historical Recording. Cozad won the 1994, 1995, 2000, 2003 & 2010 Southern Challenge drum championship at the Gathering of Nations pow-wow in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Two water drums. Water drums are a category of membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some amount of water to create a unique resonant sound. Water drums are used all over the world, but are found most prominently in a ceremonial as well as social role in the Indigenous music of North America, as well as in African music.
[1] [2] While Native American identity can at times be a complex and contested issue, the Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry, and legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. Ethnologically, factors such as ...
Traditional Inuit music (sometimes Eskimo music, Inuit-Yupik music, Yupik music or Iñupiat music), the music of the Inuit, Yupik, and Iñupiat, has been based on drums used in dance music as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called katajjaq [1] (Inuit throat singing) has become of interest in Canada and abroad.
Northern Cree, also known as the Northern Cree Singers, is a powwow and Round Dance drum and singing group based in Maskwacis, [1] [2] Alberta, Canada. [3] Formed in 1980 (or 1982 [4]) by Randy Wood, [1] [2] with brothers Charlie and Earl Wood of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation (Plains Indian music), members originate from the Treaty 6 area.