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MUSIC
Contemporary American Indian Music
While you are probably aware of Native musicians in the contemporary music field such as Buffy St. Marie, Rita Coolidge, and Robbie Robertson of the Band, I wanted to introduce you to a few of my most recent favorites. You may already be familiar with them. I am including their respective websites and quotes from them, and attachments I hope you won*t have any trouble opening.( I do have JPG versions - if that will work better for you, let me know. I was going to send wave files, but they wouldn't work. The websiteshave music you can play however.)
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Indigenous just this week won honors at the Native American Music Awards for Best Blues Group, Group of the Year, Best Pop Group. They recently completed a 52-date tour opening for B.B King. They rocked the crowd at the Buell Theatre for the Spirit of the Buffalo Conference held in Denver last week. There is a wonderful video on their website you can view.
http://indigenousrocks.com/
"Youth, thy name is Indigenous. Thy spirit is self-assurance, even if the band members didn't know what the name meant when their parents suggested it more than a blue moon ago.
"We were just kids," says Mato Nanji, named after a chief, Standing Bear."(But) we're proud of being Indian, and that's always part of us no matter what."
This is the brighter side of youth speaking: alive, alert and assiduous. Street-smart but unjaded. In the Native American lexicon of Indigenous, the painted desert is a synonym for "future," and "fail" is not a word." -Keith Raether; Seattle Post-Intelligencer ;
August 14, 1999
http://www.ulali.com/
In Ancient Times a Tuscarora Woman Carried the Name "Ulali" for Her Beautiful Voice. "Ulali" Is a Songbird (Wood Thrush) Name Given to Pura Fe, Soni and Jennifer.
We Are a First Nations Women Acapella Trio That Sing in the Many Styles and Languages of Our Ancestors in the Western Hemisphere. We Do Not Call Ourselves "Native American" Because Our Blood and People Were Here Long Before this Land Was Called the Americas. We Are Older than America Can Ever Be and Do Not Know the Borders. Our Brothers and Sisters Run from North to South and into and under the Waters for Miles and Years Back.
http://members.aol.com/at0ll/page10.htm
The Atoll was founded in 1991 by vocalist / guitarist Cary Morin (Crow) and percussionist Ron Plewacki. Since then, the band has expanded its' performance area from Colorado clubs to festivals and clubs through-out the Mid-West and the Pacific North-West. The Atoll is currently being featured by MusicLink in Tokyo Japan. Music link provides music to subscribers that can be downloaded from television. Although the band describes its' music as World Groove, their style can't be limited to any one description. Music by the Atoll was featured as part of the CD made for the Indian Trust Responsibility Training developed by and for OSM, BIA, BLM and MMS.