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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

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Native American meditation;
- I see the earth (Traditional Dineh)
- What is life (Crowfoot-Blackfeet)
- Teach your children (Chief Seatttle-Suqwamish/Duwamish)
- All birds (Shooter-Teton)

Native American Meditations is dedicated to the Buffalo Hearts of the Native American Nations, Tribes and Confederacies; Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Black Elk, Red Cloud, Pontiac, Fool’s Crow, Sunbear, Chief Seattle, Tecumseh, Logan, Mangus Colorado, Quanah Parker, Cochise, Osceola, Powhatan, Joseph Brant, Washakie, Geronimo, Looking Glass, Plenty Coups, Red Jacket, Black Hawk, Gall, Sequoyah, Wovoka, those whose words appear here, and those whose words can no longer be heard; your spirit, strength and accomplishments burn in our hearts still. Hetch etu (it is so).
All performances, nature sounds and images were recorded on location. Every contributor to this project is Native American. May this contemplative music will help you connect with Mother Earth and you two-legged, four-legged, winged and finned Brothers and Sisters.
-PJ Coyote Caller Birosik-

Suggested reading list about Native American Culture and Beliefs.
-The American heritage book of Indians (W. Brandon)
The Sacred (Beck, Walters&Francisco)
Fools Crow; wisdom& power (T.Mails)
Black elk; the sacred ways of a Lakota (W.Black Elk&W.Lyon)
Buffalo hearts (Sun Bear)
Native American Wisdom (Nernburn&Mengelkoch)
The soul of an Indian (Ohiyesa/C.A. Eastman)
The Indians book (Natalie Curtis)

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( Flute )
Sacred spirit

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Zion Canyon Flute Festival open mic 09. Native American Flute “Covered Mountains” live.
Check out the LIVE Didgeridoo and Native American Flute Music by Didgerod on Blog TV every Monday Night at 8 MST. http://www.blogtv.com/People/didgerod
Purchase Native American Flute Background tracks at http://www.naftracks.com/

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Rhythm of the Heart, Native American, Ah Nee Mah

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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

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This video reveals images of totem animals along with the song.. Yeha-Noha~ “wishes of happiness and prosperity” It reveals our planet and our animals, in their purest state.. the way the first Americans saw them.

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The director/founder of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, Michigan recently delivered a passionate talk about respecting Native American culture and heritage.

In his speech, Rev. Lynn Hubbard warned the religious experts that “Christianity must – once and for all – renounce its religious imperialistic tendencies.”

The Lutheran pastor spoke to the Spirit Scholars conference on August 11, 2007 in Ann Arbor, Michigan about the dangers of intolerance for other people’s religions and beliefs.

Time: 9:54

The Turtle Island Project will soon be posting additional and improved video from Rev. Hubbard’s address.

Dr. Hubbard is hosting a series of regional and national conferences and Native American roundtables in Munising, Michigan beginning in September 2007.

For more information contact the Turtle Island Project:

Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church
PO Box 360
1150 M-28
West Munising, MI.
49862

call:
906-387-2520
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net

Summary of Turtle Island Project & TV sites:

Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/

Turtle Island TV (you tube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse

Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject

Duration : 0:9:55

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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.

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Well, I would wish my Channel to be a peaceful place and one of the most peaceful little songs I know and have sung is one I learned on a Native American retreat run by Denise Linn, a wonderful author and teacher some years ago. It was held on one of the San Juan Islands off the coast of Seattle, US. I went to learn more about the Native American culture and truly – it was magical!

I originally recorded singing this for a close friend (ASAngelo here on YouTube – http://uk.youtube.com/user/ASAngelo ), who mixed my voice a bit as he sang beneath some of my parts to end up with what appears here. Just a little creative experiment between friends, I guess

The very best way to listen to this is in the dark with the volume UP and maybe a candle or two…..:)….Enjoy!

THE RIVER
The river is flowing
Flowing and growing
The river is flowing
Down to the sea

Mother Earth carry me
A child I will always be
Mother Earth carry me
Down to the sea

As with many Native American songs, the lyrics are simple and softly peaceful. I do not know who wrote it – but if anyone does – please let me know and I will credit them properly. Thank you.

Love

Sunbeam xx

Opening and closing music from New World CD: Native American Meditations: Track 12: Grandmother Narration #2 Brooke Shiavi

Photographs downloaded from 123rf.com

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