MUSIC OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

 

Apache Music  

Apache Girls' Coming of Age Songs

Comanche & Kiowa Songs
in section 6

Southern Cheyenne Women's Songs 
A book including lullabies and war songs.

Cheyenne & Arapaho Songs  
Densmore Collection from the Smithsonian. Ages 4-8.

Chippewa Songs  
(from the Henry Rowe Schoolcraft collection)

Chippewa Indian Songs
Densmore Collection from the Smithsonian

Iroquois Languages & Songs 

Lakota Music and Culture
Densmore Collection from the Smithsonian. Songs from the Dakota of Standing Rock Reservation.

Seminole Music from the 1930s
collected by the Smithsonian

Grade 2 Lesson Plans on Navajo

Native American Music (lesson plan grade 5)

Lesson Plans for Teaching Native American Music

Musical instruments

Notes
Negative comments on Native American music

Indians' Book
Natalie Curtis. Music from all over the United States collected in the early twentieth century.

Recordings of Native Music

Commercial site selling Native American musical instruments, but good information

Historical Native Music
Apache, Delaware, Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Great Basin: Paiute, Washo, Ute, Bannock, Shoshone Kiowa Navajo Northwest (Puget Sound) Omaha I Plains: Comanche, Cheyenne, Caddo, Wichita, Pawnee Pueblo: Taos, San Ildefonso, Zuni, Hopi Seneca Sioux Iroquois Chippewa, Menominee, Mandan, And Hidatsa A Nootka And Quileute F Papago Pawnee And Northern Ute Sioux,Yuma, Cocopa, and Yaqui

Contemporary Native Music

Contemporary Native Musicians
(a list from the Academy of Native American Musicians)

Yupik folksongs McIntyre , Chuna. Drums across the Tundra

Contemporary Native Music
(from MP3.com) Listen to clips for free

David Spotted Eagle
Some short clips to listen to by one of the current greats Native musicians

Changes: Native American Flute Music
On the page you can listen to some of the music. Mostly from the Southwestern US.

CANADIAN (FIRST NATIONS) MUSIC 

Metepenagiag
New Brunswick (Canada) Songs

Scholarly Articles on First Nations Music
an outstanding collection

NEW ZEALAND/AOTEAROA (MAORI) MUSIC 

Maori Instruments 

Maori Bird Songs

Maori Songs from Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
The great Maori opera singer does the traditional songs of her people. A real treat.

Maori Music for Sale
From New Zealand

Weavers of Song: Polynesian Music and Dance
Mervyn McLean. The classic account of Polynesian music by the former head of the Pacific Music Archive in Audkland. His Maori Music is much harder to find, but equally good.

Traditional Maori (UK Collection)
One of the best collections of traditional choral singing.

Maori Music

Maori Music
If you want to be sure of getting the real thing order this CD direct from NZ)

Maori Winamp Skins
You're homesick, or maybe you just want something a little different while playing those MP3s.

 

AUSTRALIAN (ABORIGINAL) MUSIC 

Yothu Yindi
A popular Aboriginal band that plays traditional and contemporary music. From Eastern Arnhem land. (Some songs in Gumatj)s

Digeridoo
One of Australia's best known digeridoo players

Aboriginal Music Corporation
A good-looking site.

Didjeridu from Western Arnhem Land
Tightly packed but informative page on tradition didjeridu

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