First Nations People:
Their Musical Instruments and Instrumental Music
By John Sarantos

Recordings

Guides to Recordings:

• Gombert, Greg. A Guide to Native American Music Recordings. Multi Cultural Publishing, Ft. Collins, Colorado, 1994. Includes descriptive listings of over 1,300 recordings of traditional and contemporary Indian music from the U.S. and Canada, ca. 1977-1990s, plus listings of music producers and distributors. 134 pp.
• Keeling, Richard. North American Indian Music: A Guide to Published Sources and Selected Recordings. Garland Publishing, 1997. A comprehensive bibliography from the Arctic to Mexico, including related aspects of dance, ritual, and speech. 420 pp.

Recording Sources:

• Canyon Records and Indian Arts, www.canyonrecords.com. Extensive selection.
• Crazy Crow Trading Post, www.texoma.com/cctp. Extensive selection.
• Marquette University Libraries, artists/groups Mark Woerpel (vocal, flute, guitar) and Milwaukee Bucks (vocal, drum) in Jean Cujé Milwaukee Music Collection, www.marquette.edu/library/collections/cuje.html
• Matoska Trading Co., www.matoska.com. Extensive selection.
• Noc Bay Trading Co., www.nocbay.com. Ojibwa/Eastern Woodlands focus.
• Sioux Trading Post/Prairie Edge, www.prairieedge.com. Lakota/Northern Plains focus.
• Steve Eagles, www.nativecreations.com/steve-eagles.html. Extensive selection.
• The Wandering Bull, Inc., www.wanderingbull.com. Iroquois/Eastern Woodlands focus.
• Also see your local library and consider borrowing additional materials from other libraries via the interlibrary loan system.

Teaching Aids as Recordings

• Ballard, Louis. Native American Music in the Classroom. Canyon Records, 1973, 1995. A music education learning package for all ages with teacher’s manual, classroom materials, and song recordings from 35 tribes in cassette or CD.
• Sutton, Lee Whitehorse, Collection, 1962-1964, n.d., Marquette University Libraries. Audio recordings of traditional American Indian songs created for instructional purposes by Lee Whitehorse Sutton (Cheyenne and Arapaho) for the American Indian Center, Chicago. The approximately 40 songs relate primarily to tribes residing today in North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. 16 are identified as Dakota or Lakota and one each as Cheyenne, Commanche, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Menominee, and Ojibwa. Several have no identified tribal affiliation. The songs were recorded in the Chicago area and reflect the tribal diversity of American Indians in Chicago during the mid-20^th century. Available as audio cassette recordings via interlibrary loan.