Native American
Well, to be honest, I don't know too much about Native American music, but I'll share what I do.
the Red Bull Singers (they were around before the drink) have made quite a name for themselves on the pow-wow trail. Here are a couple of their songs
and a more traditional song
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The Black Lodge Singers have also made a name for themselves, partly for funny little songs or song rewrites in the native style. Here's a couple of their songs
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Nikamok is a cree duet, but I can't find any of their music on youtube
their myspace is here: http://www.myspace.com/nikamok
check out Waniska, especially. Apparently, my grandfather used to sing this to my mom on occasion in the morning to wake her up. It translates into "Wake up, the sun is already shining / the birds are already singing / the land is beautiful" although I may have mixed up this that or the other.
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Hahaha, I almost forgot about Kashtin! Oh fuck, my mom would kill me for that. Kashtin is an Innu band who got a little limelight back in the early '90s and released 2 albums that got reasonable success, especially in the native community. They managed to get on MTV for a bit, and the sales were pretty large for a couple of Natives. It's also surprising considering they only wrote songs in their native language.
Also, don't ask me how to pronounce any of these names, i have no fucking clue.
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Believe it or not, Robbie Robertson (of "The Band" fame) is a Native American, and also released an album called "Music for the Native Americans." there were a couple really good songs on there, two which were traditional that I really enjoy, and two that are more in Robertson's style of music, but still completely about Native Americans.
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and this one was just a nice find as I was going around youtube looking for copies of the Native Music I knew
also lol i heard this one and my bowels loosened a little bit
PS - thanks for posting this thread - searching for this music sent me way back down memory lane, back when we would travel around going to pow wows and listening to this music on our trips.
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