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This video is in honor of the Native American culture and people who will always be remembered.

Honoring the names of the Native Americans in this video are as follows:

Bears Belly Arikara
Chief Garfield Jicarilla Apache
Naiche – Chiricahua Apache
Bull Tongue Apsaroke
Crazy Bear Lakota Sioux
Bluebird Sioux
Little Horse Oglala Sioux
Little Hawk Brule
Long Soldier Hunkpapa Sioux
Old Eagle Oto
Mad Bear Yankton Sioux
Medicine Crow Crow
Chief Ouray Ute
Wolf Lies Down Apsaroke
Two Leggings Crow
Red Fish Dakota Sioux
Chief Dull Knife Northern Cheyenne
Little Wolf and Dull Knife Cheyenne
Chief Joseph Nez Perce
Black Eagle Nez Perce
Bread Apsaroke
Crazy Thunder Ogalala
Crow Eagle Piegan
Does Everything Apsaroke
Double Runner Piegan
Fog in the Morning Apsaroke
Four Horns Arikara
Grizzly Bear Nez Perce
Iron Plume Ogalala
Lawyer Nez Perce
Little Wolf Cheyenne
Lone Chief Oto
Medicine Pipe Piegan
New Chest Piegan
Three White Cows Atsina
Two Moons Cheyenne
Weasel Tail Piegan
White Bull Umatilla
Bull Chief Apsaroke
Little Big Man Oglala Sioux
Black Bear Sioux
Two Strikes Brule Sioux
White Belly Sioux
Many Horses Oglala Sioux
Red Armed Panther Cheyenne
Scabby Bull Arapaho
Rain in the Face Hunkpapa Sioux
Curly Bear Blackfoot
Standing Bear Ponca
Yellow Bull Nez Perce
Bear Bull Blackfoot
Red Pipe Arapaho
Gall Hunkpapa Sioux
Geronimo Bedonkohe Apache
Manuelito Navajo
Esteemed Son Pawnee
Low Dog Oglala Sioux
Weasaw Shoshone
Shot in the Hand Apsaroke
Revenger Crow
Magpie Cheyenne
Looks Cloud Sioux
Young Hairy Wolf Apsaroke
Thunder Hawk Dakota Sioux
Wolf Robe Southern Cheyenne
Touch the Clouds Sioux
Crows Heart Mandan
White Duck Hidatsa
Wicked Bear Brule Sioux
Spotted Tail Brule Sioux
Big Head Cheyenne
Red Blanket Cheyenne
Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota Chief – Sioux
Red Cloud Oglala Sioux
Two Whistles Apsaroke
Billy Bow Legs Seminole
Medicine Bear Cuthead Sioux
Kills in Timber Ogalala
Good Voice Hawk Yanktonai
Crowkin Hunkpapa Sioux
Big Ox Apsaroke
Alchesay White Mountain Apache
Gambler Piegan
Hastobiga Navaho medicine man
Ten Bears Yamparika Comanche

I was born upon a prairie where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there, and not within walls.
Ten Bears Yamparika Comanche (1790 1872)

Source of available pictures for use at::
http://www.firstpeople.us
American Indians
First People is a child friendly site about American and Canadian Indians. 1400+ legends, 400+ agreements and treaties, 10,000+ pictures, free clipart, Pueblo pottery, American Indian jewelry, Native American Flutes and more.

Music was taken from free downloads at:
http://music.download.com
Music by J. Gordon
Song: Over the Horizon
Free downloads on that website.

Other pictures were available on internet under fair use and
Wikipedia

Check out gatheringofnations radio:
http://www.gatheringofnations.com/gonradio/index.htm

Duration : 0:3:59

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http://www.SacredSpirit.Shop.ms
Beautiful Native American new age music and chants.
Sacred Spirit, the bestselling musical project by Claus Zundel, Ralf Hamm and Markus Staab. For each single Sacred Spirit album sold, we made and still continue to make a donation to the Native American Rights Fund ( http://www.NARF.org ), the oldest and largest nonprofit law firm dedicated to asserting and defending the rights of Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide.

Duration : 0:4:40

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http://www.SacredSpirit.Shop.ms Sacred Spirit 2 – More Chants and Dances of Native America

Sacred Spirit II again successfully combines ancient Native American cermonial chants with modern instrumental arrangements through a cycle of CELEBRATION, WISDOM, REVERENCE, AND REBIRTH. The music focus on authentic vocal chants sung by Native American perfomers. SSII deliberately downplays specific song academia but rather allows the chants and arrangements to Affect the listener on a much more PERSONAL LEVEL–SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNEXPLAINED

http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Spirit-Vol-Chants-Americans/dp/B00005176Y/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1199601503&sr=1-1

Duration : 0:4:17

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Slideshow made with some photos from my collection!!!

Music:
Sacred Spirit “The Counterclockwise Circle Dance”

I choosed this song as a tribute to the johnny’s cherokee origins…

Hope you (and maybe Johnny) like it!

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Duration : 0:5:17

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Rhythm of the Heart, Native American, Ah Nee Mah

Duration : 0:5:36

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A collection of compositions featuring the flute and reflecting the cultural heritage of the Native peoples of the Americas. The music ranges in scope from primal to symphonic and uses an array of instruments including Native American drums and rattles as well as synthesizers. A unique sound is created on various selections by several flutes playing in unison.
The CD consists of original musical compositions by Alice Gomez played on Native instruments primarily the flute and drums. Each track has a beautiful melodic line and musical passages that enhance the original lyrical quality of the piece. The music captures the listener’s attention, clears the mind, creates a clear, open, uncluttered space for enjoying the adventure into the canyons of the Southwest, the purple mountain views, seeing tall peaked snow-capped mountains in the distance, or flying condors overhead and llamas grazing on the hillsides of the Andes Mountains.

Buy it at amazon.com or at
http://www.native-americans.org/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TPBT&Product_Code=FDCD

Duration : 0:3:48

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From his albulm “Spirit Dreams”. Thomas Walker performs a lovely and energetic tune

I do not own this song. No copywrite infringement intended and is for entertainment use only, NOT for profit of any kind.

Duration : 0:6:32

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Fast paced, heart pounding beat. Ghost Dance by Apurimac III Nature Spirit Pride and beautiful art photos by J.D. Challenger, Frank Howell, and Howard Terpning.

The Ghost Dance was an attempt of a group of North American Indian tribes to further separate themselves from the white man and the religious doctrines they were forcing upon the tribal peoples. Among the Sioux and Arapaho, the Ghost Dance was one of the central rituals of a new religious movement that focused on the restoration of the past, as opposed to a salvation in a new future. The movement was active within limited tribes and mirrored other attempts by previous Indians to escape the civilization of the white man. The earlier movements included the Good Message of the Iroquois and the Dreamers of the Columbia River tribes. All of these movements had similar features including a rejection of the white mans civilization, especially alcohol, weapons and technology. In addition, the movements preached unity among tribes, even those that were once enemies and a revival of Indian customs that were threatened by the civilization of European peoples.

The despair and nostalgia associated with the Ghost Dance reflects that period from which the movement evolved. Plains tribes faced losing their freedom and being overtaken of their homes, their beliefs and their existence. The Ghost Dance was a resurrection of the dead, a bringing back of the customs and way of life that the Indians were trying to hold onto.

The prophet who began the movement of the Ghost Dance was Wovoka, a member of the Paiute Tribe. He was descended of a family of prophets and Shamans. Known as a medicine man, it was said that during an eclipse of the sun and while suffering from a high fever, he had a vision which inspired the development of the movement known as the Ghost Dance. The vision embodied the beliefs that inspired the followers of the movement including that the white man would disappear from the Earth after a natural catastrophe and that the Indian dead would return bringing with them the old way of life that would then last forever.

To bring these and the other beliefs into effect, the Indians had to practice the customs of the Ghost Dance movement and to renounce alcohol and farming and end mourning, since the resurrection would be coming soon. The most important practice to ensure the effectiveness of the movement was the dance itself.

The dance was unlike other Indian dances with fast steps and loud drumming. The Ghost Dance consisted of slow shuffling movements following the course of the sun. It would be performed for four or five days and was accompanied by singing and chanting, but no drumming or other musical instruments. In addition, both men and women participated in the dance, unlike others in which men were the main dancers, singers and musicians.

The first dance was held by Wovoka around 1889. Word spread quickly and the Ghost Dance was accepted by the Utes, Bannocks and Shoshone tribes. Eventually, the Plains tribes also adopted the Ghost Dance movement and the peaceful message of hope was spreading and uplifting many Indians. While adapting the movement, many tribes added specific customs and rituals to the Dance that reflected their tribes individuality. The Sioux added two specific elements including the use of hypnosis to bring about trances and aid in the communication with the dead, and a ghost shirt. Made of buckskin or cloth, the shirt was said to make the wearer immune to bullets, a weapon of death known initially only to the white man.

A famous Sioux warrior, Sitting Bull, adopted the Ghost Dance into his way of life. He was a respected leader, medicine man and warrior. His following of this movement alarmed the military and Indian Agencies. In 1890, just a few months after presiding at his first Ghost Dance, Sitting Bull was killed. His followers fled and joined the band of Kicking Bear, one of the first to practice with Wovoka. Donning their ghost shirts and with their beliefs firm in their hearts, the followers of the Ghost Dance were rounded up at Wounded Knee creek and killed while resisting arrest. Among those killed were women and children wearing their ghost shirts, which did not stop the bullets of the Indian Agencies or the Military.

The Ghost Dance continued to be danced in more southern tribes, but the end of the movement really came with the deaths at Wounded Knee. The hopes of the Indians also ended at that massacre. Many of Wovokas ideas and concepts were adopted by Peyote cults and can even be found in practice today. Indian tribes did not survive the push of the white man. Broken up and with broken dreams, the tribes were shuffled onto reservations and lost many of their customs and rituals. The Ghost Dance was one of those customs lost, but never forgotten. Resurrected from the past, the Ghost Dance and other tribal beliefs are brought to life everyday in the education of our nation.

Duration : 0:5:34

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By Robbie Robertson, flute and guitar with Native American beat. Art images by Howard Terpnng and other artists from firstnaton.us galleries used in this video are for nonprofit, educational purposes. No copyright infringement is intended.

Robbie Robertson, Music for Native Americans album on amazon.com,,,

Duration : 0:4:38

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Heartpounding Chirpaq by Reencuentros from Indian’s Vision CD and art images of Native American Indians by J.D. Challenger, Kirby Sattler, and other famous fine art works shown in galleries at firstnation.us and sattlerprint.com

Images are owned by respective artists are are used for nonprofit, educational purposes.

The words of this song is in Quechua which is an ancient language spoken by the Incas and Peruvians of South America. Link to Reencuentros music http://www.reencuentros.de/links.html

Untranslated lyrics:

Kayna punchau turonero
Sapallaypi waqaskani
Mana pipas q’awarillaskan

Waqallarkani sapay
Llakillarkani sapay
Q’uyay mamayta
Yuyarillaspa

Maypillaraq sunquchallay
Maypiñaraq ñawiruruy
Maytaq cuna
Waqaysiwanchu

Waqaysiwanchu ñawiy
Llakisiwanchu sunquy
Tayta mamayta
Yuyarillaqtiy

Translated in English as best as possible.

Yesterday I was crying
as nobody saw me
I cried lonely
and I felt pain when I was
remembering my poor mother
Where is my heart?
where are my eyes?
They are already sad with me
Don’t cry with me
my eyes cry
my heart suffers when I’m
remembering my parents

Duration : 0:5:48

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