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Website. grammy.com. The Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] to recording artists for quality albums in the Native American music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony ...
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians are a sovereign nation of Muscogee (Creek) people with deep ancestral connections to lands of the Southeast United States. Members of the Poarch Band are located mostly in Escambia County and parts of Florida. Since the late twentieth century, they have operated three gaming casinos and a hotel on their lands.
A Northern style Men's Fancy Dancer at the West Valley Powwow in Saratoga, CA, 2005. Fancy dance, Pan-Indian dancing, Fancy Feather or Fancy War Dance is a style of dance some believe was originally created by members of the Ponca tribe in the 1920s and 1930s, in an attempt to preserve their culture and religion. It is loosely based on the war ...
Northern contemporary. Years active. 2000–present. Labels. Tribal Spirit Music. Website. blackbearsingers .com. Black Bear, sometimes credited as Black Bear Singers, are a Canadian musical group from Manawan, Quebec, who perform traditional First Nations music. [1] They are frequent collaborators with the group The Halluci Nation .
Bear Butte is a geological laccolith feature located near Sturgis, South Dakota, United States, that was established as a State Park in 1961. An important landmark and religious site for the Plains Indians tribes long before Europeans reached South Dakota, Bear Butte is called Matȟó Pahá , [2] or Bear Mountain , by the Lakota , or Sioux .
Pow-Wow in Wendake, Quebec/Canada, 2014. A powwow (also pow wow or pow-wow) is a gathering with dances held by many Native American and First Nations communities. Powwows today are an opportunity for Indigenous people to socialize, dance, sing, and honor their cultures. Powwows may be private or public, indoors or outdoors.
Named for its 19th-century leader, Esens, known as "Little Shell". It was formerly known as the Little Shell Band of Landless Chippewa Indians of Montana because the Little Shell went without an Indian reservation, having conflicts with federal authorities dating back to the 19th century. Though considered "landless", the tribe was state ...
Jingle dress is a First Nations and Native American women's pow wow regalia and dance. North Central College associate professor Matthew Krystal notes, in his book, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian: Contested Representation in the Global Era, that "Whereas men's styles offer Grass Dance as a healing themed dance, women may select Jingle Dress Dance."