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This month, AIROS.org will feature a podcast interview with Buffy Sainte-Marie. Buffy is an icon with Native media and music. In 1975, Buffy joined the cast of the PBS children's show Sesame Street and appeared on the show for five years.

Buffy's first musical release was in 1964 and since then, she has been recognized for her music and many accomplishments.

Buffy recieved a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Up Where We Belong. During our interview with Buffy, AIROS talked with her about her career and her great accomplishments. Since graduating from college, Buffy has done positive things for Native people through her music. Listen to the interview on the AIROS.org website. Be sure to check out the AIROS live stream for even more great Native American artists. 

Some of our Favorite Buffy Songs:

1. "Piney Wood Hills" (I'm Going To Be a Country Girl Again)
2. "It's My Way" (It's My Way)
3. "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (Up Where We Belong)
4. "Up Where We Belong" (Up Where We Belong)
5. "No No Keshagesh" (Running For The Drum)

Interview with Buffy | Buffy's MySpace Page | Buffy's Official Webpage | Native Sounds Podcast

The Hopi Nation welcomed reggae with open arms more than 25 years ago. Casper Lomayesva is a product of this connection. Maybe it is because he understands what Jamacians are going through; or maybe it is the drums and bass. Whatever it is, Casper's reggae music addresses Native social injustices. Growing up on the reservation, Casper Lomayesva was raised on traditional music and the traditional ways, learning to live in harmony with the Great Spirit. When he first heard reggae, something in the rhythm caught Casper's attention because it connected with the traditional music on which he had been raised. Casper Lomayesva is Native American with Hopi and Navajo roots. He's been creating music for over ten years and continues to reach new fans. Recently, production assistant Ben Kreimer spoke with Casper.

Log on to Casper's facebook page | myspace page | Subscribe to "Native Sounds" podcasts | Listen to the interview

This is a list of some of our favorite Casper Lomayesva songs

"Hopiland Winter"  The Sounds of Reality

"No Indian"  The Sounds of Reality

"Why?"  Original Landlord

"Brother Leonard"  Honor the People

"Honor the People"  Honor the People

The Drum is a Native American radio program that is aired on 89.3 FM KZUM in Lincoln, NE. You can also listen online at airos.org & kzum.org. The show features Native American Traditional artists and Pow-Wow drum groups. The Drum's awesome Native co-hosts are Tobias Grant (Omaha/Sisseton/Navajo/Cherokee) and Jessica James (Pyramid Lake Paiute/Bannock/Washo). It is like a Native Pow Wow on your computer every Sunday night. What a spiritual way to relax before the start of the upcoming week or a good ending to a long weekend. Either way, The Drum is about Traditional and Pow Wow music for Indian Country (Turtle Island). Also, how else are people going to learn about their favorite drum group? The Drum will give you a drum group to talk about at the next gathering and impress everyone around you about your knowledge of Traditional and Pow Wow music. Here is an excellent start to finding your favorite drum group. Tune in Sunday nights at 7 p.m.-9 p.m. CT at kzum.org or at airos.org.

High Noon - "Grand Entry"
Whitetail - "Flag song & Veteran song"
Haystack - "Men's Traditional"
Eagle Mountain - "Intertribal"
Cozad - "Men's Fancy"
Catching Eagle - "Intertribal"
Primeaux & Mike "Four Straight Songs"
Blackfox - "Four Straight Songs"
Litefoot "Cherokee Stomp"
Asa Primeaux Sr. - "Straight Song"
Nobel Red Man Lakota Wisedom Keeper Mather King -
       "Praying For An Eagle"
       "Meeting Noble Red Man"
       "Could You Share Some Wisdom"
       "The Three Powers"
Young Bird - "Memories"
Blackfoot Confederacy "Intertribal"
EyaBay "Wanblizzle"
Blacklodge "Flintstones"
Whitetail "The Tail Dancer"
Tha Tribe "Fry Bread Hut" (Skit)
Native Roots "Fry Bread"
Eagle Mountain Singers "Contest Song"

Recently, Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) spoke at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln during a leadership conference. She spoke about activism work and her fight against the problems faced by both Native and non-Native populations in American society.

You can listen to the speech and then add your comments below.

Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) is an award winning musician, poet, writer, and playwright.  A saxophone player, Harjo performs solo, as a duo and with her group The Arrow Dynamics band.  Her performances have taken her around the world.  In 2009 she won the Native American Music Award for Best female Artist of the year for her Album Winding Through the Milky Way.

Listen to the Interview l Joy Harjo's Website | Subscribe to the Native Sounds Podcast

My House is the Red Earth

This is My Heart

No Huli

New Orleans

Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century

The Had-It-Up-Here Round Dance

Whitetail "For Our People"

Whitetail "Omaha flag song & Veteran's song"

Whitetail "Prayer Song"

Standing Horse "The Anthem"

Thunderhill "Intertribal"

Standing Horse "Soldiers"

Meskwaki Nation "Men's Grass"

Plains Ojibway "Jr. Girl's Jingle"

High Noon "Teen boy's fancy"

Midnite Express "Women's fancy"

Black Lodge "Twinkle Little Star"

Black Lodge "Yaba daba doo"

Black Lodge "Ask Your Mom for 50 Cents"

Whitetail "The Prettiest Girl"

Fly-in-Eagle "Thunder Shaker"

Fly-in-Eagle "Big Bird Shuffle"

Pipestone "Teepee Creepin"

Walela "Amazing Grace"

Walela "I'll turn my radio on"

Ulali "Mahk Jchi"

Ulali "Mother"

Buddaz & Stephens "Need You"

Buddaz & Stephens "Angel Eyez"

In honor of Women's History Month. The AIROS Native Network has compiled a list of great Native American female artists.

Yolanda Martinez "Apache Moon"

Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love"

Buffie Saint-Marie "Starwalker"

Jackie Bird "Lovesick Blues"

Lucy Idlout "Tonight"

Jamie Coon "Betrayed with a kiss"

Joanne Shenandoah "We are the Iroquois"

Ulali "Mahk Jchi"

Walela "I'll turn my radio on"

Pura Fe "Catch me fast"

Annie Humphrey "Storm"

Arigon Starr "Honor Me"

We at AIROS thought what would Valentine's Day be without a Valentine's Day show. Tune into AIROS on February 14th, 2010 to hear love songs from contemporary Native artists. The songs range from Blues, R & B to Easy Listening. This playlist is great for a Native Valentine's Day with that one and only pow wow snag.

Red bone "Come & Get Your Love"

Buddy Red Bow "Indian Love Song"

Medicine Dream "Thousand Years of Love"

Harrison Begay "Baby with a Golden Smile"

George Leach "Makin Love"

Martha Redbone "Say You Love Me"

James Bilagody & The Cremains "To Be in Love"

The Plateros "Without You"

Chester Knight and The Wind "Love Me Strong"

Thunderhand Joe and the Medicine Show "I'm Your Fool"

Alex E. Smith & Cheevers Toppah "Southern Man"

Buddaz & Stephen "Need You"

Chester Knight and The Wind "See the Indian on the Hill"

The word epic in the dictionary means extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope and not to toot our own horn or anything, but Native Sounds - Native Voices is the epitome of epic. How can you get more epic than starting off our show with the classic, iconic and just plain awesome Buddy Red Bow and his "Journey to the Spirit World?" We even time travel back to the 1970s and show you that Natives were  "Awakening"  with XIT and fighting off "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" with Redbone. Two great bands that have been an influence in Native and modern day music. We then get sent back to the future with Jimmy Wolf as he keeps "Driftin from Door to Door." Later on Lucie Idlout proves that Natives can get deep with her song "For You." We have plenty other music that will melt your face as well, so if that isn't epic for you, then we'll eat our own hats*.

*sidenote: due to legal reasons beyond our control, we are unable at this time to eat our hats.

Here are a few Songs that will blow your mind with AWESOMENESS!

Buddy Red Bow - "Journey to the Spirit World"

Buffy Sainte-Marie - "Darling Don't Cry"

XIT - "Awakening"

Redbone - "Witch Queen of New Orleans"

Blue Stone Project - "John Doe"

Jimmy Wolf - "Driftin' from Door to Door"

Pura Fe' - "Stand Up For Human Pride"

Lucie Idlout - "For You"

Red Earth - "Honey Be"

Digging Roots - "Spring to Come"

Jamie Coon - "Betrayed with a Kiss"

D.J V-Dizzle - "Noble Indian Chief"

Blackfire - "Common Ground"

AIROS carried the 2010 State of Indian Nations Address delivered by NCAI President Jefferson Keel (Chickasaw) Friday January 29. Listen to the speech right now. Also, check our schedule for additional encore feeds.

Themes will include: Indian Country's priorities for the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress; economic development; health care; the protection of American Indian tribal sovereignty; homeland security; and the many other issues currently facing Indian nations.

Share your thoughts about the speech and Obama's State of the Union Address here or our Facebook and MySpace pages