“If you believe in yourself, who you are, where you come from, your culture and more importantly your language, it will take you to places you have never even dreamed of,” says Ste...
When prominent Cheyenne musician Joseph FireCrow starts playing his traditional flute he closes his eyes and expresses a mix of emotions—powerful emotions, which he says are diffic...
In 1951, the Phoenix Little Theater asked Ray and Mary Boley, owners of a small recording studio in Phoenix, to record a performance there by a Navajo singer, Ed Lee Natay...
Cetan Wanbli Williams
February 12, 2012
In 2011, the Grammys terminated the “Native American Music Album” award . QUESTION: How many Grammy-winning projects did Native Americans produce ?...
When the Recording Academy announced it was restructuring its Grammy Award categories earlier this year, it was hard to envision Native American artists getting anything but the sh...
Vincent Schilling
April 25, 2011
At a press conference on April 6th, 2011, Neil Portnow, President and CEO of The Recording Academy, the organization famous for the Grammy Awards, announced a restructuring of Gram...
One of the largest pow wows in the world, the Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, draws over 100,000 visitors a year...