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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.
Georgia Wettlin Larsen is a Nakota singer who has released several discs featuring Native American songs. [1] Perhaps her most famous performance was when her song "Ojibway Square Dance" was featured during the fourth-season episode "Learning Curve" of Northern Exposure, originally aired on February 8, 1993.
[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 ...
Miller has won three Grammy Awards, numerous Native American Music Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2005, Miller's instrumental Cedar Dream Songs won a Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album.
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
Andrew Jacob Vasquez is a Native American flute player of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. He has released four albums to date, Vasquez , the award-winning Wind River , V3: An American Indian , and Togo , all released by Makoché Records .
Nakai's music prominently features improvisations on the Native American cedar flute. He also plays the eagle-bone whistle , and uses synthesizers, chanting, and sounds from nature. Although he occasionally plays arrangements of traditional melodies, most of his music attempts to "[create] original compositions that capture the essence of his ...