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The rites and prayers in the Blessing Way are concerned with healing, creation, harmony and peace. The song cycles recount the elaborate Navajo creation story (Diné Bahaneʼ). One of the most important Blessing Way rites is the Kinaaldá ceremony, in which a young girl makes the transition to womanhood upon her menarche. [1]
Come to Me Great Mystery: Native American Healing Songs is a compilation album of Native American music released by Silver Wave Records on April 22, 2008. [1] In 2009, the album won Tom Wasinger the Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album. [2]
It is important for the people in attendance to follow specific rules. The medicine man's chanupa (ceremonial pipe) is present during the ceremony, [4] which involves prayer, the drum, and traditional songs. Some songs summon the spirits, and others tell the spirits it is time to leave and end the ceremony. [2]
Navajo music is music made by the Navajos, mostly hailing from the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States and the territory of the Navajo Nation.While it traditionally takes the shape of ceremonial chants and echoes themes found in Diné Bahaneʼ, contemporary Navajo music includes a wide range of genres, ranging from country music to rock and rap, performed in both English and ...
Peyote songs began with the blend of the Ute music style with Navajo singing. [1] Ed Tiendle Yeahquo composed over 120 peyote songs, many are still sung in NAC today. Vocal style, melodic contour, and rhythm in Peyote songs is closer to Apache than Plains, featuring only two durational values, predominating thirds and fifths of Apache music with the tile-type melodic contour, incomplete ...
Placing the clan poles, c. 1910. Several features are common to the ceremonies held by Sun Dance cultures. These include dances and songs passed down through many generations, the use of a traditional drum, a sacred fire, praying with a ceremonial pipe, fasting from food and water before participating in the dance, and, in some cases, the ceremonial piercing of skin and trials of physical ...
Native Suite: Chants, Dances, and the Sacred Earth with Robert Mirabal (1996, Warner Western) Ghostdance (1999, Vanguard) Healing Waters (1999, JVO Records; 2001 Good Cop Bad Cop) Hear our Prayer (2000, Integrity) Spirit Rain (2002, Paras) A Sacred Gift (2003, Paras) Cedar Dream Songs (2004, Paras) Spirit Songs: The Best of Bill Miller (2004 ...
Ani Couni Chaouani" (Arapaho: Ani’qu ne’chawu’nani) is a traditional Native American hymn and song originating from the Arapaho tribes living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming in the United States.