He believed that American Indian musical tradi tions were fast becoming generic," pan-tribal"
per formances that reflected a decreasing vitality and diversity of songs and dances. Any …

Far from being another weapon to “kill the Indian and save the man,” in Richard Pratt’s loaded
phrase, the European education imposed at Carlisle and other Indian boarding schools …

… This kind of intersection first occurs when Robert Johnson passes on his guitar to Thomas
Builds-theFire, enabling the formation of the Spokane Indian blues band, Coyote Springs. In …

… While recent scholarship has offered new insights into the experiences of “show Indians”
and evolving powwow traditions, Indian Blues is the first book to explore the polyphony of …

… Given these conditions, the appeal of an "Indian blues artist" seems evident. Many
Indians, it seems, have earned the right to sing the blues. …

As a Native woman responding to the writings of Sherman Alexie, my mind and heart, much
like my heritage, go in diverse directions and create a tension not unlike the structure/…

DIVDIVWinner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie’s
brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock’n’roll, and redemption/div Coyote …

… The following chapter is “Indian Blues: The origins of a Native-African American culture in
colonial Florida”, by Héctor Martínez. Sharing a historical inspiration with the previous text, it …

T his late April 200 day marked the nicest that New Yorkers had yet experienced in the year.
Pura Fé and her accompanist, Danny Godinez, were rehearsing on a bench in Central Park, …

Various Native American individuals and communities effectively utilized the practice of music
as a political catalyst between 1890 and 1935 to both reshape federal Indian policy and to …