In the light of reverence
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Across the United States, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religions. This film presents three indigenous communities in their struggles to protect their sacred sites from rock climbers, tourists, strip-mining and development and New Age religious practitioners. Examines: Mato tipila (Devil's tower, Wyoming) (25 min.); Hopitutskwa (Hopi land, Northern Arizona) (23 min.); Bulyum Puyuik (Mt. Shasta, California)
Native America
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Travel "through 15,000 years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents. The series reveals some of the most advanced cultures in human history and the Native American people who created it and whose legacy continues, unbroken, to this day"--Container.
Smoke Signals
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
Two Spirits
Examines the role of two-spirit people in the Navajo culture in the context of the story of a gay youth named Fred Martinez. Martinez was a nádleehà or a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, who was murdered in a hate crime at the age of sixteen. Discusses the traditional Native American perspective on gender and sexuality and the need for a balanced interrelationship between the feminine and masculine.
Music of the North American Indians for acoustic guitar
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Robbie Robertson - Guitar Anthology
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(Guitar Recorded Versions). Includes the greatest hits of the Band. Titles are: Acadian Driftwood * American Roulette * Hell's Half Acre * King's Harvest (Has Surely Come) * It Makes No Difference * Life Is a Carnival * The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down * Ophelia * Rag Mama Rag * Showdown at Big Sky * Stage Fright * Sweet Fire of Love * Unfaithful Servant * Up on Cripple Creek.
Flute Magic
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This book contains 20 chapters addressing everything from the origin and design of the Native American flute to a method for learning to play the instrument and read its music. Together with the fingering exercises presented in eight lessons, a number of tunes are included for both the five and six-hole Native American flute. Old standards, indigenous music, and original compositions are presented, meeting the needs of beginning to advanced players. This useful and practical guide to the Native American flute is suitable for either individual or classroom instruction.
For Zitkála-?á
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"Paying tribute to Yankton Dakota writer, musician, and activist Zitkála Šá (b.1876), this publication is structured through a series of graphic scores for thirteen contemporary female Indigenous performing artists: Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), Cheryl L'Hirondelle (Cree/Métis), Suzanne Kite (Oglala Lakota), Barbara Croall (Odawa), Jacqueline Wilson (Yakama), Autumn Chacon (Diné/Chicana), Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk (Iñupiaq), Ange Loft (Kahnawà :ke Mohawk), Joy Harjo (Muscogee/Creek), Carmina Escobar, Olivia Shortt (Anishinaabe, Nipissing First Nation), Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), and Buffy Sainte-Marie (Piapot Cree). For Zitkála-Šá is supplemented by texts by each artist and a contextualizing essay by Chacon."--Publisher's
Writing American Indian Music
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Transcriptions of traditional native American music, songs about native Americans, music by native American composers.Reprinted from 17th-20th century publications.
Downloadable ebooks and escores including Berklee Press publications. NOTE: Works best on iOS or Android devices using the Boundless app
The Best of the Ronettes
Be my baby -- Why don't they let us fall in love -- I wonder -- Baby, I love you -- (The best part of) breakin' up -- So young -- When I saw you -- Do I love you? -- You, baby -- How does it feel? -- Walking in the rain -- Born to be together -- Is this what I get for loving you? -- Paradise -- Here I sit -- I wish I never saw the sunshine -- Everything under the sun -- You came, you saw, you conquered
Harlem Lullaby
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Georgia on my mind -- Concentratin' -- Harlem lullaby -- Junk man -- Ol' pappy -- Squeeze me -- Downhearted blues -- A porter's love song to a chambermaid -- Smoke dreams -- Rockin' chair -- The moon got in my eyes -- It's the natural thing to do -- Worried over you -- Thanks for the memory -- More than ever -- Please be kind -- I let a song go out of my heart -- Rock it for me -- My melancholy baby -- The lonesome road
King of the Delta blues
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Revenue man blues -- Some summer day -- Hang it on the wall -- You gonna need somebody when you die --Jim Lee blues, pt. 1 -- Pea vine blues -- Elder Greene blues -- Love my stuff -- Hammer blues -- Rattlesnake blues -- I'm goin' home -- Jersey bull blues -- Some these days I'll be gone -- Lord I'm discouraged -- Oh death -- Running wild blues -- Prayer of death, part 1 -- Prayer of death, part 2 -- Some happy day --Troubled 'bout my mother -- I shall not be moved --Mean black cat blues -- Jesus is a dying-bed maker
Rumble!: the best of Link Wray
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Rumble -- The swag -- Raw-hide -- Dixie-doodle -- Ramble -- Ain't that lovin' you babe -- Jack the Ripper -- The black widow -- Big city after dark -- Run chicken run -- The shadow knows -- Deuces wild -- Hang on -- Ace of spades -- I'm branded -- Batman theme -- Hidden charms -- Climbing a high wall -- Switchblade -- Jack the Ripper (live version)
Totemic flute chants
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Cougar -- Coyote -- Thunderbird -- Emergence -- Earth Mother -- Serpent -- Buffalo -- Whale -- Elk -- Eagle -- Bear -- Wolf.
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