Great Native American Music Sites

 General

• River of Song: Music Along the River
• American Indian Music (PDF file)
• Traditional and Contemporary Native American Music

Instruments

• Flutes
  • The Origin of the Flute
  • The Four Flutes : a Zuni story
  • Native American Musical Instruments
  • Ancient Vision Native American Flutes
  • The History of the Love Flute
  • How our Native American Flutes are made
  • Native American Flutes
    
• Drums
  • Taos Drums : details on drum making
  • RhythmWeb: Native American Rhythms
  • Native American Musical Instruments
  • Drums and Songs
  • Native American Drums and Rattles
    
• Rattles
  • Native American Musical Instruments
  • Rattles, Shakers, and Jingles
  • Shako:wi Cultural Center Rattles Exhibit
  • Native American Drums and Rattles

Pow-Wow

• Southern Native American Pow wows - good introductory information
• On the Pow wow Circuit - Facts and answers to FAQs about inter-tribal Powwows
• The Pow wow and its Meaning
• Wacipi Pow wow
• Charley's 16 Pow wow Rules
• Pow Wow Protocol
• Powwow Dances/ Events
• What is a Pow wow?

Dance

• Native American Dance
• Ceremonial Dance
• Iroquois Earth Songs The Six Nations of the Great River (Iroquois) include the Seneca and the Mohawk tribes
• Kiowa Gourd Dance Songs (some computers may not be configured to play sound files) - a little information on the Brush Dance
• The Dances
• Pow Wow Dance Styles
• An Iroquois Dance
• Waneskuin Dance Troupe

Songs

• Native American Music
• Other Powwow Songs (note: some computers may not be configured to play sound files at this link)
• The Power of Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography
• Social Dances
• Song Structure
• Drums and Songs at a Southern Pow Wow (note: some computers may not be configured to play sound files at this link)
• The Study of Indian Music: Song Catcher Frances Densmore
• Songs According to Tribes (not clickable links; just a list of songs by tribes)

Ceremonies

• Ceremony of the Bowl
• Navajo Ceremonials
• Native American Healing
• Native American Medicine (scroll down to section on symbolic healing rituals and ceremonies)
• Indian Ceremonies