NATIVE MUSIC AND ARTS ORGANIZATIONS ( RECORD LABELS & DISTRIBUTORS, SOURCES FOR NATIVE MUSIC) AND INDIVIDUALS (SINGERS, DRUMS, ARTISTS, PERFORMERS, CELEBRITIES, ACTORS, ACTRESSES, STORYTELLERS, AUTHORS, ACTIVISTS)

Last update - November 12, 2005.
Maintained by Lisa Mitten.

Record Labels, Distributors, Sources for Native Music, Arts Organizations, and Reviews

• Ableza - A Native American Arts & Film Institute Added 8/28/96

• Aboriginal Music Network - "... resource for and about Aboriginal musicians, composers, and studios." Added 7/15/04

• American Indian Art from the Pacific Northwest Added 6/5/02

• Arbor Records - featuring recordings by Whitefish Bay, Eyabay, and more!

• ArtNatAm - Native American Artists Added 1/7/97

• Bear Traxx - aboriginal MP3 site from Canada. Added 7/15/04

• California Native Artists Network - Added 12/16/02

• Canyon Records - the granddaddy of native music! HUGE selection - they are the first place to start for powwow, contemporary, peyote, chicken scratch and all types of native music. Added 4/7/97

• Cedar Feather Productions - "... a native owned company that produces native flute music and native entertainment events." Added 7/15/04

• Center Records Added 6/5/02

• CPR Music Group - "the choice for Native Christian music" Added 8/2/03

• First Americans in the Arts - Added 3/19/99

• Four Winds Trading Company - specializing in Native American books and music Added 1/8/99

• Full Circle Videos - Native American Art, Culture, and Music Added 12/9/97

• Guthrie Indian Art Studios - from John Guthrie, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Added 3/28/99

• Indian House Records - one of the oldest Indian music recording houses. Lots of good stuff here - mostly southern! Added 9/4/96

• Indigenous Peoples Music - dedicated to the promotion of native music. Added 8/2/03

• International Native American Flute Association Added 1/10/04

• Inuit Art Foundation Added 6/18/97

• Iroquois Social Dances and Songs - from Ohwejagehka: Hadegaenage: Added 4/4/99; updated 10/26/99

• Makoche Records Addded 2/28/98

• Matoska Trading Company - distributors of Native music Added 7/26/99; updated 8/2/03

• Mayan Marimba Music Cassettes and CD's Added 9/3/97

• Native America Online - featuring Native artwork Added 2/23/00

• Native American Actors - a similar site, with lots of photos Added 9/5/98

• Native American Art Studies Association Added 10/3/01

• Native America Film & Television Alliance NAFATA Added 12/16/02

• Native American Music Awards - The Nammys! - the Indian version of the Grammys! Added 2/3/00

• Native American Performance - a directory of Native music links Added 12/7/02

• Native American Women Playwrights Archive Added 3/3/97

• Native Art Network Added 1/31/04

• Native Arts Circle - a statewide Native arts agency based in Minnesota. Added 10/2/99

• Native Voices Booking & Management - agents for world class Native talent. Added 9/29/02

• NativeCelebs Added 10/8/97; updated 2/20/00

• "Naturally Native" - the first film about Native American women written, directed, produced and starring Native American women. A full-length feature film written, produced, co-directed, and starring Valerie Red-Horse; also featuring Irene Bedard and Kimberly Norris. Added 10/1/99

• Omaha Indian Music - this treasure trove of Omaha traditional music includes RealAudio versions of the wax cylinder recordings made by Smithsonian anthropologists at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as hundreds of songs and speeches from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration powwow and 25 songs and speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress. Added 2/14/00

• Oyate Music Group Recordings - an independent, Native-owned music label Added 12/7/02

• Oyate Ta Olowan - Songs of the People - an Indian-owned source for traditional native music Added 3/4/97

• Rainbow Walker Music - a Native-run source for REAL Indian music - none of that New Age ripoff stuff here! Added 8/27/96; updated 7/14/02

• Red Nation Celebration - concert organizers/promoters for the Native music industry. Added 6/5/02

• Red Vinyl Records - home of Cherokee rapper and actor Litefoot Added 2/9/99; updated 7/5/00

• Redhawk Indian Arts Council - a not-for-profit organization founded and maintained by Native Americans and dedicated to educating the general public about Native American heritage through song, dance, works of art and other cultural forms of expression. Added 7/23/01

• RootsWorld - reviews of Indian music recordings. Added 10/24/97

• Sagebrush - featuring the art and stories of Michael Lacapa and Baje Whitethorne Added 2/7/99

• Sen'klip Native Theatre Company Added 6/13/98

• Silver Wave Records Added 2/5/99

• Sound of America Record Distributors - contemporary and traditional Native music. Added 2/7/99

• Southwest Native American Promotions - a Hopi run organization "... dedicated to the promotion and education of Native American and Southwestern artists and their art to the general public and its patrons." Added 7/15/04

• Stone Dust - Iroquois art news for the 21st century. Added 9/29/02

• Sunshine Records - Native record label from Canada. Added 7/15/04

• A Time of Visions - interviews with Native artists. "This book is offered without cost to those interested in contemporary Native American art. It is a "sequel" to my 1994 collection of interviews from the University of Nebraska Press, I Stand in the Center of the Good. Feel free to download." - from author Larry Abbot. Added 7/23/99

• Turtle Island Music - powwow music! Added 7/15/98

• Turtle Vision, Inc. - a performance group of Lumbee, Cherokee, and Creek people located in North Carolina. Added 2/28/98

• WithOut Rez productions - a native owned and operated record label & mail order company Added 10/16/98

  
  

  
  SINGERS, DRUMS, ARTISTS, PERFORMERS, CELEBRITIES, ACTORS, ACTRESSES, STORYTELLERS, AUTHORS, ACTIVISTS

• Donald Ahdunko - traditional Delaware and Caddo songs from Oklahoma. Added 11/20/98

• aim baby - a psychedelic folk rock trio from the Twin Cities. Added 7/23/99

• Sherman Alexie - Spokane author, and now, filmmaker! Added 9/29/02

• Allegheny Singers - traditional Iroquois songs from the Seneca nation. Added 7/3/00

• ATOLL - Native band from Colorado - Added 3/20/97

• Jim Beer - Lena'pe folk singer. Added 8/20/99

• D.Y. Begay - The Navajo Weaver Added 2/9/99

• Chief Jim Billie - Seminole singer/songwriter and Chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Added 4/29/99

• Ben Black Elk - tells the life lessons of Ben Black Elk and reflects the Lakota tradition of passing down experience through the spoken word. Added 12/7/02

• Black Horse - Native American Art, Dance & Music, Inc. - a Navajo-based performance group Added 12/16/98

• Douglas Blue Feather - traditional flute music Added 12/7/02; updated 2/3/03

• Jim Boyd and Thunderwolf Records - this Colville singer/songwriter was featured on the Smoke Signals soundtrack. Added 10/3/01

• Phillip "Yogi" Bread - Kiowa musician and traditional dancer. Added 12/18/97

• Sharon Burch - Navajo singer-songwriter. Added 6/5/02

• Clan/Destine - Native traditional and rock band. Added 4/20/99

• Dolores Purdy Corcoran - Caddo artist. Added 7/15/04

• Bill Crouse - Seneca traditional singer and contact for the Allegany River Dancers Added 5/23/01

• Tallmadge Davis - paintings and artwork from this Oklahoma Cherokee artist. Added 6/5/02

• Eagle Feather Dance Group - dance troupe opportunites for male dancers in Europe. Added 8/3/01; updated 10/13/01

• Dennis Eagle Horse - Hunkpapa Lakota artist. Added 2/16/00

• Eastern Bull Drum - Added 7/16/99

• Elkdreamer - David Little Elk - Lakota musician and linguist. Added 6/5/02; updated 2/13/05

• Jack Gladstone - Blackfeet singer and songwriter Added 9/2/97; updated 7/3/00

• R.C. Gorman Navajo Gallery Added 8/22/99

• Official Rodney A. Grant Website Added 2/14/00

• Michael Greyeyes - actor, dancer, choreographer Added 3/27/03

• Native Joy - Joy Harjo website. Added 5/27/04

• The Hawk Project - blending Native American music, jazz, and free improvisation. Added 1/26/99

• Pato Hoffmann - Quechua/Aymara actor. Added 4/12/00

• Honyouti Family - Hopi Katsina Doll Carvers Added 7/14/02

• Indigenous - the Nakota blues band sensation! Added 3/22/99

• Killah Green - a "heavy techno powwow" band from Canada. Added 12/16/02

• Knifewing - 1995 Native American Male Vocalist of the Year Added 4/4/98

• Andrew Lacapa - Apache comedian Added 2/7/99; updated 7/5/00

• Lefthand Studio - Navajo silversmith. Added 7/15/04

• Lenape Red Thunder Drum Added 8/31/99

• Charles Littleleaf - Warm Springs flute player Added 5/20/98

• Kevin Locke - Lakota flute player and hoop dancer. Added 4/26/97

• Willie French Lowery - Lumbee singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Added 11/12/04

• Howard Lyons - Tahakierente - Mohawk folk singer. Added 10/10/01; updated 12/7/02

• Loma Mathias - Ojibway/Metis singer, actor, writer and music producer. Added 3/23/99; updated 3/18/00

• Tom Mauchahty-Ware - Kiowa/Comanche Musician and Artist. Added 1/22/2000

• Medicine Bird Gallery - the art and music of Blue Spruce Standing Deer. Added 3/7/00

• Christine Nofchissey McHorse - Navajo micaceous clay potter and sculptor. Added 9/10/99

• The Russell Means Home Page (Added 8/6/96)

• Medicine Dream - intertribal contemporary music from Anchorage. Added 7/26/99

• Bill Miller - Mohican singer/songwriter and artist. Added 4/7/99

• Robert Mirabal - Taos Pubelo musician. Added 2/21/03

• Nadjiwan - contemporary Native pop/rock from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Added 7/10/00

• The Native American Music Awards - "THE NAMMYS" Added 4/29/98; updated 2/4/00

• Nation's Ensemble - a mostly Hopi jazz/rock/fusion band. Added 10/11/98

• Navajo Rugs and Weavings - by Navajo weaver Marilou Schultz. Added 7/15/04

• NDN - Greg T. Walker - new CD from the founding member of the rock group Blackfoot. Added 11/28/99

• David Neel - Kwagiutl photographer Added 2/20/97

• Paint it Red Recording & Productions - from Lakota singer-songwriter Marvin Helper. Added 7/14/00; updated 6/5/02

• Robert "Freightrain" Parker - Seneca bass player. Added 1/21/00; updated 9/29/02

• K.Paul Carvings - Swinomish/Colville carver and musician Added 1/1/99

• Peacemaker - and all-aboriginal heavy techno fusion band from Manitoba. Added 2/29/00

• Shawn Michael Perry - Salish actor & muscician. Added 5/24/03

• Po-Gesh - art from Mono artist Lance Fink. Added 3/16/03

• Pura Fe (formerly with Ulali) Added 10/8/05

• Qua'ti'si' - Spirits of the Wind - Cree singer. Added 8/2/03

• Red Crooked Sky - intertribal dance troupe. Added 3/27/05

• Red Feather Woman - Sioux/Assiniboine storyteller/singer/songwriter/author. Added 3/27/05

• Red Hawk and Wolf - Native flute music on MP3 Added 8/1/99

• Red Power Squad - Native dancers based in Edmonton, Alberta. Added 1/21/00

• Ronald Roybal's Homepage - Tewa flute player. Added 8/30/97

• Buffy Sainte Marie - Cree singer Added 1/17/97

• Shadowyze - Native American rap and hip hop. Added 11/30/99

• Joanne Shenandoah - the well known Oneida singer/songwriter. Added 1/26/99

• James A. Simon - Mishibinijima - painter from the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island Added 1/28/99

• Kevin Warren Smith - Cherokee artist. Added 11/29/99

• Sour Springs Longhouse Male Singers - Ganohgwatroho:no' Henadreno:ta' - traditional songs from the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario. Added 7/3/00

• Douglas Spotted Eagle - flute player and recording artist. Added 12/7/99

• Arigon Starr - Kickapoo singer and self-proclaimed diva! Added 6/9/00

• Starrwatcher Online - The Home of Arigon Starr - Kickapoo-Creek alternapop! Added 3/23/99

• Mary Tallmountain - Athabaskan poet who died in 1994. Added 3/2/98; updated 7/5/00

• Thunder Bird Sisters - from the Shinnecock reservation. Added 1/31/00

• Tru Rez Professionalz - Iroquois Hip Hop/Rap from the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve. They also have an MP3 site added 7/3/00

• John Trudell - Santee Sioux activist/poet/actor Updated 7/20/99

• Ulali - the official web page for the female trio that has recorded with Robbie Robertson and appeared with the Indigo Girls. Added 4/2/98; updated 10/28/98

• Walela - the Cherokee singers from the (Rita) Coolidge family Added 8/11/98

• White Oak Singers - northern drum based in the Washington, D.C. area Added 1/28/99; updated 7/5/00

• Wico Hunkake - Ancestors, Our Story - artwork and more from Hunkpapa artists Daryl and Sharon No Heart. Added 3/27/00

• Zoey Wood-Salomon - Odawa-Ojibway artist. Added 2/4/00
  

  RETURN TO:

  • Top of Native American Performers
  • Native American Sites Home Page

  GO TO:

  • Information on Individual Native Nations
  • Native Organizations and Urban Indian Centers
  • Tribal Colleges, Native Studies Programs, and Indian Education
  • Languages
  • The Mascot Issue
  • Native Media - Organizations, Journals and Newspapers, Radio and Television
  • Powwows and Festivals
  • Native Music and Arts Organizations and Individuals - Singers, Drums, Artists, Performers, Celebrities, Actors, Actresses, Storytellers, Authors, Activists
  • Indians in the Military
  • Native Businesses
  • General Indian-Oriented Home Pages

  ---

  GO BACK TO:

  Lisa Mitten's Home Page.
  

  ---

  Layout and collection of links

  COPYRIGHT 1995-2006

  by Lisa A. Mitten. Wholesale duplication of this web page prohibited.

  ---

  LISA MITTEN'S NativeCultureLinks and American Indian Library Association  Hosting and Domain Sponsored by Global Thinking, Inc. | NATIVECULTURE.COM

  
  DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS AFTER CLICKING THIS NEDSTATS BUTTON!
  
  NEDSTAT EMPLOYS BROWSER HYJACKING, TROJANS and POPUPS!