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Dreamer's Chant
A traditional melody of the Northern Plains honoring "Big Horns" who gave their sacred bundles to the real people for their protection.
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2:03 |
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Solstice Prayer
A traditional prayer melody of the Central Plains acknowledging our Earth Mother and all her children.
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2:01 |
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Atoka, Atoka
A traditional melody of the Central Plains honoring the sacred mystery and wonder of the Earth herself and all life-forms.
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1:57 |
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Whirlwinds Dancing
An improvisation inspired by winds moving as dust devils through the Sonoran desert.
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3:40 |
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Red-Tailed Hawks
An improvisation for the sacred raptors of the hunting tribes, who mate for life and wheel effortlessly in the warm desert skies.
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3:39 |
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Coyote Rainbows
An improvisation to echo among the Saguaro, Creosote and the walls of the stony desert terrain, rainbows of sound for the early morning and evening times of quiet.
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5:58 |
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Saguaro Sunsets
An improvisation for the mind's eye adventrue of the eternal desert sunsets, too complex for mere photographic renderings.
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10:29 |
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The Young Old Warrior
An improvisation for the people in the native culture who persist in being "like the old ones" because the traditions never die.
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3:27 |
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Red Streaking Into the Water
A child girds itself with relations, philosophies, languages and a sense of social responsibilities, learning to become one of "the real people." An improvisation.
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3:44 |
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Willow People
All life-forms here are of water and like the sacred willow celebrate by dancine in the winds. An improvisation.
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3:37 |
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Black World
The place of creation and emergence, the jungles of the Amazonian Basin, where sacred pillars of light and Mist People defined the way of Dine bila ashdia ii.
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3:40 |
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Blue-Green World
Discovering another world of water and skye, Dine realized the sky and earth beings.
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4:06 |
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Yellow-White World
The Andes and Central American, populated by our ancestors who taught us the way of human people and the eventualities beyong our control.
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3:18 |
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Rainbow World
The place where we are now that was made by the Yeibechai at our insistence and given as a gift to be used responsibly and wisely.
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5:45 |
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Amazing Grace
An arrangement of native American folk traditional of the early slave-trading days by George Hansen (circa 1780)
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2:19 |
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