 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Music |
|
|
|
»
2006 November/December
By Site Editor
| Published 10/31/2006
| Music , Cultural Items , Photography/Graphics , 2006 , Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs , Diné , Comanche , Quechua , Yaqui , Sioux , Seminole , Muskogee , Apache , Tlingit , Haida , Pueblo , Dakota , Blackfeet , Navajo , Cherokee
|
|
 ON THE COVER
Musician and flutemaker Bryan Akipa (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux) seen here
holding a five-hole, old-style Dakota flute he created around 1984 from
eastern aromatic red cedar he gathered from the Badlands of South
Dakota. Photo by Don Doll, J.S.
|
»
2006 March/April On the Wind (News)
|
|
 Plans are being finalized for a new $40 million museum in Palm Springs, California for the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians. Also, other important news in the arts, education, the environment, business, politics, sports, health and other realms of life in Indian Country.
|
»
Floyd Red Crow Westerman
|
|
 He may be the most recognized face in Indian Country, with a dignified
and melodious voice to match. He’s met Prince Charles, President
Mitterrand of France, the late Pope John Paul II, and the King and
Queen of Spain. He has toured the globe with Sting on a speaking tour
about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and its Native peoples,
acted in films...
|
»
Native Renaissance in Hawaii
|
|
 There was no alphabet. No written language. No metal for tools. No clay for pots. No wheels. Yet these prehistoric Pacific islanders voyaged across great oceans, created a sophisticated society and left a cultural heritage that still flourishes in the Hawaiian Islands.
|
»
Joanne Shenandoah
|
|
 There is a special creative identity attached to singer Joanne Shenandoah. It is evident throughout the course of her career, beginning with the numerous recordings of Iroquois social songs that have come to define her music. Though she has no single song that can be described as a hit, her productivity and creativity since the late 1980s have led to her position today as one of the top-selling and most widely recognized Native recording artists.
|
»
Walela: Cherokee Sisters Sing Their Way to Stardom
|
|
 On February 9, 2002, Walela—the trio of Rita Coolidge, her sister Priscilla Coolidge and Priscilla's daughter Laura Satterfield—sang for their biggest audience, an estimated 4 billion people worldwide, at the opening ceremonies of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, alongside musicians Robbie Robertson and Jim Wilson.
|
»
Viewpoint: Native Music
|
|
 Iroquois are a people given to music. We have songs to celebrate the arrival of newborns, songs for plantings and songs which mark the light of the moon. We believe the universe does its own cosmic dance and there is a song for every living thing.
|
»
R. Carlos Nakai
|
|
 At 53 [born 4/16/46], Nakai is one of the most prominent figures in Native American music. He took top honors in both the Best Male Artist and Best Flutist categories at the first Native American Music Awards in 1998 and top honors in the Best Instrumental Recording category in the 1999 NAMMYs.
|
»
2004 May/June
|
|
 ON THE COVER
Singer,
songwriter, musician and performer Joanne Shenandoah (Oneida) possesses
a golden voice, a charming demeanor and a determined work
ethic—characteristics that have carried her to the top of the Native
music realm.
Click on "Full Story" to view entire Table of Contents.
|
»
2003 May/June
|
|
 ON THE COVER
Walela
Cherokee
hummingbirds Rita Coolidge (left), Laura Satterfield and Priscilla
Coolidge (right) form the trio Walela, one of the finest sets of voices
in music today. Photo by Jill Jarrett.
Click on "Full Story" to view entire Table of Contents.
|
»
2002 May/June
|
|
 ON THE COVER
Jana—Powerful Pop With a Native Soul
We lead off our annual Native music issue with an insightful portrait
of this powerful young Lumbee performer, whose brief career already
includes a Billboard Magazine Single of the Week, a Grammy co-nomination and a Nammy for Best Pop Artist.
Click on "Full Story" to view entire Table of Contents.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
full story
printer version