( – promoted by navajo) A look at the guitarist Link Wray – with 1/2 Shawnee ancestry – who is a pivotal figure in rock-n-roll and still influential six years after his death. If you try to draw a line from the first bluesman who cranked up his guitar amp to create a distorted sound … Continued
The clear origins of the Native American Flute date back several thousand millennia to flutes made of bone, to petroglyphs, and oral history. Unclear “origins” involve the Spanish Conquest insofar as the Spanish stealing the bamboo flute from Asia, and then introducing it to the Five Civilized Tribes. A Cheyenne Flute Maker relayed this to … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I am curious if anyone has heard the song ‘San Jacinto’ by Peter Gabriel and what their thoughts are about the song. ‘San Jacinto’ tells the story of an Apache boy coming of age through a rite of passage ritual in the San Jacinto mountains in California. It illustrates the … Continued
these are just some videos that I made of RezHeadz Adventures over the summer. The first Video is Smoke and Big S2’s short video about the programs and the men behind RezHeadz. The Second video is a look at life on the road with Smoke and Big S2. The third video is a crowd favorite, … Continued
When Native American singer and activist Floyd Red Crow Westerman passed away in 2007, Jeremy Goodfeather’s Hunka (adopoted) mother asked him to play a few songs at the Oakland memorial, a request that launched an unexpected series of events for the San Francisco resident. “I had established myself as a community member within the Native … Continued
