Our mother earth is in serious need of healing.We all have our part and our responsibility.  I am hoping that the music I create will continue to touch the hearts and souls of those who take a moment to listen to the rhythm of our earth songs and join me in celebrating life and making a better world for those unborn who will follow us.

Joanne Shenandoah

 I use the old style broadcloth and cotton and I just try to be as traditional as possible. I remember when I did my first pow-wow. When I was coming out, a song by Sky Hawk Drum was playing. I told the announcer that I did not know any of the steps. The announcer looked at me and pointed to my chest and said when you hear the drum you will know the steps.

Stan Bearpaw

Our Lyrics show a part of Native American life, their myths, their spiritual world and how we feel about it. This is a very important issue for us. Our sound also reflects on feeling the beat of the drum and on dancing to the heartbeat of Mother Earth. We collaborate and work with First Nations People and together we are dedicated to creating a better world.

Big City Indians

I love beauty. I love honesty. Honesty is a huge thing that resonates with me. That’s another part of my outlook on life, be honest with one another and respect each other’s beliefs.  I don’t care what upbringing a person may have had or where one has grown up in this world.  I believe a person can accomplish anything he or she wants, we need to respect each other’s

beliefs and dreams.

Apryl Allen

I have always written stories even as a young child. I always loved to curl up with a blanket and get lost writing a story. When I was young I used to go outside and write stories about the birds, squirrels or whatever animal I saw. Sometimes I got into trouble because I would be writing a story instead of doing something I was suppose to be doing. I have always loved to read

and write.

Melinda Elmore

Jan Michael Looking Wolf

Jan Michael Looking Wolf is a Kalapuya Native American flute player from Grand Ronde, Oregon. With 39 National Award recognitions, he is considered by many to be the premier native flutists of our time. Looking Wolf performs across the country with his rock band and solo sharing flute songs, tribal stories, and the message of One Heart.

Denny Karchner

Over the last several years, Denny has worked closely with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. “I dedicate all my art to my children, Lindsay, Hillary and Dillon and my wife Leigh. For it was they who sacrificed all that time and attention when I thought it was for a better future. Little did I know that the future was the next minute of a day when I could have, should have but didn't”.

NNAVA

We in NNAVA have taken this tradition to heart with our moccasin project. We make them for the warriors, our brothers and sisters, with prayer and blessings, to keep their feet swift, their path true, their journeys, either home or spirit, safe. Their designs are in our hearts & minds as we pray and toil over these moccasins, they are in the spirit of these moccasins, to guide their journey safely.

Sid Armstrong

My Grandmother was of the Owl clan, and a Medicine woman. She helped heal people from everywhere. I always think about her when I paint Owls. Her influence on me was one of good, and kindness to everyone, and everything in Nature. I am very mindful of what God has given to us. The four seasons, the four directions, the four elements fire, water, air,

and earth.

Sonny Tackett

Early in my career I had a revelation. I am a musician, I am a writer. I can be dirt poor or filthy rich and it makes absolutely no difference, this is what I am. I am going to write, record, and release my music in any way I can; if fifty people hear it or millions, this is what I am. I grew up not knowing much about my heritage. I'm proud of my Scottish and Native American heritage.

Danuwa Analihi Adonvdo

The highlight of sharing and playing the music is the joy it gives us to share this gift of music with others. Creator plays this music through us. The songs carry a message from Creator. We walk the path and red road for Creator, he gives us each creativity as tools to bring his message to the people.

Chris Ferree

This world and the type of people that are drawn to money and power have always made it hard on the rest of us. But it is possible to walk through this world

if you have the right perspective. We have to be in this world but not of it and knowing the truth and The Creator of all things will indeed set you free and keep you grounded no matter what life

throws at you.

Donald Blackfox

He founded Raven Hawk Productions and Spirit Wind Records. He also took his drum group The Thunder Hawk Singers to a Nammy nomination in 2001. In 2002 he was Program Director for NativeRadio.com. Working with Patrick Doyle CEO and founder of NativeRadio.com has given him new insight into the world of native music. He has been instrumental in getting the voice-over work done for presentation to the annual NAMA show.

Jonny Lipford

Today Jonny Lipford, who started his musical journey at the young age of 13, continues to shares his music with audiences across the United States and broadcasts world wide. Jonny has been featured on NativeRadio.com, the worlds largest collection of broadcasted Native music, as Spotlight Artist with the debut of his first release. Jonny has been recognized as a two time NAMA. Nominee, ISMA and JPF Nominee

Frank Black Fox

I have been involved in magic since the age of seven. I began building my own props and effects to enhance the power of my magic. Being a Native American heritage artist, I have also created my magic and props with this theme in mind. I have also created a magic line of my own design with this Native American theme. I have transformed old magic tricks into new visions with a Native American twist.

Karla R. LaRive

I am very grateful to have worked on many wonderful productions over the past 25 years ranging from Broadway legit theatre to Native American music videos. My company has recently released a short film  documentary titled, "Imagine A Place, Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary Sponsor Mustangs".  The project came to me as a response to all the negative images on the mistreatment and slaughter of horses.

R. Thunderhands Gilbert

I have a great love for people like Fools Crow, Black Elk, and Lame Deer.

I honor the old ways of the Wisdom Keepers and Holy men of the tribal nations. Lame Deer said in so many words that in order to be a saint you have to be a sinner. If you want to heal you have to experience, you can't be naive to life. Fools Crow said that we must all unite to get things done.

Bill Birdsong Miller

My philosophy is to be a servant. Everything that I do now is working to send everything vertical. It’s vertical to my creator and I consider the sacred ground. I have to consider that as I walk, even in my own house. In my own marriage of 32 years you have to be aware that things can fall apart and if you don’t look at them as sacred then basically you are throwing it away. Sacred is sacred.

Preston Randolph

I have been in production on “Wind Chases the Sun: The Leonard Peltier Story” for a year and am in the later stages of pre-production at this point. The amount of research my crew and I are doing is immense. The goal of this production is to expose the case of Leonard Peltier and the atrocities on the reservations to the masses. Leonard Peltier is in full support of this production.

Wolf Gardens

We can live alongside wildlife & nature without it becoming about 'us or them'. I hope that we can educate and inspire others to make those small realistic changes in their own lives that add up to big changes for the Earth and all that inhabit her. My hope is that by bringing education and practical solutions, we can make real positive and lasting change.

Mr. McGaa is the author of 3 Harper Collins books among his 9 total, 8 still active. Mother Earth Spirituality is 41 times reprinted. He received his Bachelor's degree from St. John's University and earned a law degree from the University of South Dakota. He has studied under Chief Eagle Feather and Chief Fool's Crow, both influential Sioux

holy men.

Ed McGaa “Eagle Man”

Benjamin Harjo

Growing up I drew with pencils, crayons, and ballpoint pens and did very little painting.In the fourth grade I'd draw cartoon characters and the teacher would place them on the wall around the room. It wasn't until I went to the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in 1964 that I really encountered painting.

R. Carlos Nakai

Of Navajo-Ute heritage, R. Carlos Nakai is the world’s premier performer of the Native American flute. My primary responsibility is to continue to trudge up the rocky terrain of time while continually reflecting upon and realizing the extreme sacrifice that my ancestors suffered to make me possible. As a traditionalist my journey includes “becoming of service to others, regardless of their multicultural status”.

Dave Hagstrom

My philosophy on life is to follow the path that Grandfather has set before me to the best of my ability and believe me when I say that it's difficult for me to do at times. We all have to find our own path that he has designed for us and decide what it means. Do it in a good way and stay on it is not easy.  I would ask others to try to live in a simple manner as a philosophy of life.. Watch the sunrises and sunsets often if you can.

Ikoshy Montoya

His art, from its inception, represents the evolution of immersion in native teachings as it traced its way through ceremonies and part of his own personal life. Ikoshy has never had any formal art training.

“I was born with my artistic abilities and my elders, the sweat lodge and related ceremonies have been my art instructor”.