Canku Ota - A Newsletter Celebrating Native America September 9, 2000 - Issue 18

And the Nominees Are....

Final nominees for the Third Annual Native American Music Awards have been announced. This year's awards will take place on November 11, 2000. The Third Annual Native American Music Awards will take place Saturday, November 11, 2000 at the Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tickets go on-sale Monday, September 11th and can be purchased through PROTIX at 1 800 905 3315. Tickets will be priced at $35.00 and $50.00. Special VIP seats are priced at $100.00 each which also include admittance to the VIP post Awards show reception party. The Native American Music Awards helps America remember its heritage, honor its unique culture, and celebrate its achievements. The Awards have been consistently sold-out and highly acclaimed for its professionalism, beauty, inspiration, and method of providing overdue recognition. This year's special award recipients include; Rita Coolidge for Lifetime Achievement and the Navajo Code Talkers as Living Legend award recipients. The Native American Music Association, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization was created to directly assist Native American musicians to further their career advancement while enhancing cultural preservation and expansion. Major programs of the Association include; educational scholarships and professional training for Native American youth, artist and songwriter seminars and workshops and the nation's largest national audio and video music archive. In the past year, the Association has awarded over $4,000 in educational scholarships to various tribal students of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Along with the National Music Publishers Association & Harry Fox Agency, the world's leading recording industry agency for protecting and collecting songwriter royalties, they presented their first and very successful artist seminar. The Association has also returned an inherited song of the late Apache leader, Geronimo, which had been lost since 1907, back to his family. To date, their national music archive has grown to contain of over 3,500 hours of audio recordings and video footage. They continue to monitor and research national music recordings each year, and have published a 50% documented increase in the number of national music recordings from 1997 - 1998. Recent activities of the Native American Music Awards and Association also include: Formatting a commemorative event for the 5th Anniversary of the Native American Music Awards as a Cultural Olympiad program during the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002. Successfully creating a category for Native American Music in the Grammies. Providing educational scholarships to Native American youth in financial need and professional employment recruitment. Expanding the nation's largest national Native American Music Archive featuring over 3,500 hours of contemporary Native American Music recordings. As the presenting organization of the Native American Music Awards has delivered two consecutive sold out events during National Native American Heritage Month, ranging from 1,500-2,000 in attendance. As the country's greatest national documentation of contemporary Native American music initiatives, over seventy-five percent of all attendees come from various regions throughout the U.S. The Native American Music Awards proudly congratulates this year's nominees (76 in total): A general public voting ballot for the Third Annual Native American Music Awards for public categories will be nationally distributed. All other categories will be voted upon by N.A.M.A. membership. You can become involved with the NAMA's by casting your vote. Vote http://www.nativeamericanmusic.com/vote.htm List of Nominees Artist of the Year 1. John Trudell "Blue Indians" Dangerous Discs/Inside 2. Mary Youngblood "Heart of the World" Silver Wave 3. Robert Mirabal "Taos Tales" Silver Wave 4. Robert Tree Cody "Native Flamenco" Canyon 5. Sharon Burch "Colors of My Heart" Canyon Best Blues Recording 1. "Blues Nation" Blues Nation Rhom 2. "Fingermonkey" Keith Secola & Wild Band of Indians Akina 3. "Live At Pachyderm Studio 1998" Indigenous Pachyderm 4. "One Step Ahead" Vince Converse Mystic 5. "Raw Blues" Jimmy Wolf Red Reverend Best Compilation Recording 1. "Across Indian Lands" Various Soar 2. "Gathering of Nations '98" Various Soar 3. "The Sounds of Indian Country" Various Red Vinyl 4. "Voices Across The Canyon" Vol. 4 Various Canyon 5. "Wolves Original Soundtrack Recording" Various Silver Wave Duo or Group of the Year 1. Brule "One Nation" Soar 2. Clan/destine "Deeply Rooted" Rez Dawgs 3. Indigenous "Live At Pachyderm Studio 1998" Pachyderm 4. Keith Secola & Wild Band of Indians "Fingermonkey" Akina 5. Verdell Primeaux & Johnny Mike "Live In Harmony" Canyon Best Female Artist 1. Cherokee Rose "Love Medicine Music" Clearlight 2. Judy Trejo "Stick Game Songs of the Paiute" Canyon 3. Mary Youngblood "Heart of the World" Silver Wave 4. Sharon Burch "Colors of My Heart" Canyon 5. Thunder Bird Sisters "Still Singin'" Thunderbird Best Folk or Country Artist 1. Little Deer "Earth Mother" Little Deer 2. Pima Express "Together Well Fade Away" Canyon 3. Sharon Burch "Colors of My Heart" Canyon 4. Thunder Bird Sisters "Still Singin'" Thunderbird 5. Yolanda Martinez "Lonely Warrior" YML Flutist of the Year 1. Andrew Vasquez "V3i An American Indian" Makoche 2. Kevin Locke "The First Flute" Makoche 3. Mary Youngblood "Heart of the World" Silver Wave 4. R. Carlos Nakai "Inner Voices" Canyon 5. Robert Tree Cody "Native Flamenco" Canyon Best Male Artist 1. Andrew Vasquez "V3i An American Indian" Makoche 2. John Trudell "Blue Indians" Dangerous Discs 3. Litefoot "Rez Affiliated" Red Vinyl 4. Robert Mirabal "Taos Tales" Silver Wave 5. Robert Tree Cody "Native Flamenco" Canyon Best New Age Recording 1. "Heart of the World" Mary Youngblood Silver Wave 2. "Inner Voices" R. Carlos Nakai Canyon 3. "Native Flamenco" R. Romero, R. Tree Cody, T. Redhouse Canyon 4. "Obsidian Butterfly" Alice Gomez Silver Wave 5. "V3i An American Indian" Andrew Vasquez Makoche Best Pop/Rock Recording 1. "All Together Here" Lunar Drive Beggars Banquet 2. "Deeply Rooted" Clan/destine Rez Dawgs 3. "Ma Wio Mi" Medicine Dream Canyon 4. "One Nation" Brule Soar 5. "Plight of the Redman" XIT Soar Best PowWow Recording 1. "Gathering of Nations '98" Various Drum Groups Soar 2. "Here To Stay" Northern Cree Canyon 3. "Keepin' It Real" Southern Cree Canyon 4. "Rendezvous" Young Bird Canyon 5. "Tribute To The Elders" Black Lodge Singers Canyon Best Rap/Hip Hop Recording 1. "Gathering of Nations '98" Various Drum Groups Soar 2. "Here To Stay" Northern Cree Canyon 3. "Keepin' It Real" Southern Cree Canyon 4. "Rendezvous" Young Bird Canyon 5. "Tribute To The Elders" Black Lodge Singers Canyon Best Radio Station 1. CKON Rooseveltown, NY 2. KILI Porcupine, SD 3. KNBA Anchorage, AK 4. KSUT Ignacio, CO 5. KTNN Window Rock, AZ Song/Single of the Year 1. 'Blue Indians' John Trudell w. Quiltman & Jackson Browne Dangerous Discs 2. 'Mystical Shaman MC's' Litefoot w. Coolio Red Vinyl 3. 'Ooh baby, baby' Jana Curb 4. 'Where's Your Honor, Mr. Gorton" Jim Boyd Thunderwolf 5. 'Yuba' Mary Youngblood w. Joanne Shenandoah Silver Wave Best Spoken Word Recording 1. "All Together Here" Lunar Drive Beggars Banquet 2. "Blue Indians" John Trudell Dangerous Discs 3. "First Mother" Troy De Roche & Liz De Roche Song Stick 4. "Native American Meditations" Various Artists New World 5. "The Elders Speak" M.L.D. Wilson & F. Cree Makoche Best Traditional Recording 1.. "Red Cedar Medicine: Circle Songs" Beaver Chief Lyrichord 2. "Stick Game Songs of the Paiute" Judy Trejo Canyon 3. "The Elders Speak" Mary L. D. Wilson & Francis Cree Makoche 4. "The First Flute" Kevin Locke Makoche 5. "Yankton Sioux Peyote Songs" Primeaux - Dion Cool Runnings

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