Not many people know, but there are actually Native American colleges and universities that provide great educational opportunities. Native culture and language are essential components of a Native student’s education, and even though each of the 40 or so colleges (32 are fully accredited) educate on not only broad topics, but Native languages, history, culture,...
A little over a year ago, Supaman released his immensely popular “Prayer Loop Song” on YouTube and became an overnight sensation. But on March 12, Supaman became the first Native American musician to perform at the Googleplex, the world headquarters of Google in Mountain View, California. Google had found out that he was in the...
April 23-25 For the past 32 years, the Gathering of Nations has grown from a small powwow, to one of the biggest in the world. As an annual festival where Native people can come together each year and celebrate their shared culture, the Gathering of Nations has also become a place where singers and...
Quickly earning a reputation as a gifted songwriter, visual artist, social activist, and musician in the 1960’s, Buffy Sainte-Marie is still producing and playing music today. Born in 1941 on the Piapot Cree First Nations Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada, Sainte-Marie later went to University of Massachusetts Amherst earning degrees in teaching and Oriental philosophy. In...
Hailing from the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, brothers Mato, Nanji, and Pte, as well as their sister Wanbdi and cousin Horse, are all members of the Nakota Nation and made up the blues-rock band Indigenous. Spurred in their love of music by the late great Native American musician Greg Zephier Sr., father to...
Coming out in September 2014 is a new documentary that follows the stories of 5 American Indian artists who have formed a group known as the Urban Indian 5. Called, I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again, the documentary started at a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2011 and received partial funding to aid...
The advent of Native American spoken word is one that is traced back to the beginning of the tribe and the oral tradition. For centuries, the tribes would pass these stories, fables, and allegories from generation to generation. Because these stories are oral, they rely heavily on the performance nature of storytelling. But as time...
Photo courtesy of: http://www.eastoregonian.com/ Born in 1951 to parents of Chinook, Walla Walla, German, Irish, and French Canadian descent, Lavadour grew up in Pendleton, Oregon on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. He discovered his love for art and painting as a child and was encouraged by his family to pursue his artwork. Primarily self-taught as an...
Native American music is celebrated in many ways through current cultures, museums, powwows, and very prominently at Native American Music Awards which was founded in 1998. There are a lot of Native American bands, both traditional and contemporary, that have achieved commercial success throughout the years. Here are 5 celebrated Native American Bands from many...
It has been a little over a year since Native American photographer Matika Wilbur has hit the open road in her car and has embarked on an epic adventure. Her goal: to take photographs of citizens in every federally recognized tribe in the United States, originally 562 is now up to 566 in number. With...
