Maybe some of you can help me in compiling a list of native american rock or
pop artists which I am compiling for an educational project in Belgium,
Europe.
Until now, I have been able to identify the following, which may not always
be correct. Please, if available, send me all corrections and/or additional
information.
If possible, please indicate, with the lesser known artists or bands, where
CD, records, or cassettes can be obtained.
Thank you very much.
Wendel Trio
European Alliance with Indigenous Peoples
Keltenlaan 20
1040 Brussel
ph: +32.2.733.36.53
fx: +32.2.736.80.54
e-mail: eaip@gn.apc.org
List of native American rock performers:
Buffy Sainte Marie: Canadian Cree. While in her beginning period as a
performer she did not explicitly refer to her native background, she has
been one of the most prominent indigenous artists in North America.
Jimi Hendrix: Cherokee. He has spent part of his childhood on the indian
reserve of his grandmother, who was half Cherokee. It is said that this
were Hendrix' most interesting years of his youth.
Robbie Robertson: Canadian Cree. Robertson is the leader of the disbanded
Canadian-American rockgroup The Band. Though ...
Xit: Lakota rockgroup. This group was led by Mike Valvano.
Redbone: .... Redbone is a rockgroup of city based native americans that
has hit the charts with its song 'Wounded Knee' issued shortly after the
occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973.
Link Wray: ... Wray is said to be a halfblood native.
Don Patrick Martin: Canadian Mohawk. Martin is a Mohawk from Kahnawake,
the community that resisted the Canadian police in 1992. He made a CD in
order to financially support those involved in the legal cases that
followed the confrontation.
John Trudell: Santee Dakota. He is a poet/performer as well as a native
activist. He was i.a. the last National Chairman of the American Indian
Movement from 1974 to 1979.
Blackfoot: .... Blackfoot is a city-based rockgroup of plain indians.(?)
Floyd Westerman: Lakota. Westerman has been very active in the American
Indian Movement. His protestsongs have been figuring amongst most of the
AIM meetings and European tours in the seventies. More recently he has
become an actor featuring in Costner's Dances with Wolves and The Doors.
Medicine Man: ... This is a Californian mixed rock band including some
native musicians.