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Celebrating Indigenous Music

Celebrate the contributions of Indigenous Peoples to music in North America by sampling some of these CDs, DVDs and kits.

Red Deer Public Library

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  • View this collaboration between RDSO musician Samantha Whelan Kotkas and Cree singer-songwriter Walter MacDonald White Bear.  It is an exploration of how music is inspired by the natural world in both Classical and Indigenous musical…
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  • Frame Drum

    PICK UP AND RETURN ONLY AT DOWNTOWN BRANCH /

    Thank you Red Deer Symphony Orchestra for donating a frame drum to the Instrument Lending Library! Now you can borrow a guitar, ukulele or drum from the Library.
    KitValencia, CA : Remo — DRUM (KIT)
  • Buffy Sainte-Marie

    a Multimedia Life

    DVD[Canada] : CineFocus-Paquin Pictures Inc. : True North Records, c2006.
  • Electric Pow Wow

    A Tribe Called Red

    DVD[Place of publication not identified] : McIntyre Media Inc., [2019] — DVD 781.6480971 ELECT
  • Rumble

    the Indians Who Rocked the World /

    DVDNew York : Kino Lorber, [2017] — DVD 781.6609 RUMBL
  • This May Be the Last Time

    Stories of America's First Music

    DVD[New York] : This Land Films, 2013. — DVD 975.00497385 THIS M
  • David Bouchard collaborates with Indigenous artists and musicians in his kits which tell stories you and the children in your life can share.
    KitNorth Vancouver : MTW Publishers, [2012] — E BOU (KIT)
  • Kit[Calgary] : Red Deer Press, ©2009. — E BOUCH (KIT)
  • KitMarkham, Ont. : Red Deer Press, [2012] — E BOU (KIT)
  • Redbone

    the True Story of a Native American Rock Band

    Staebler, Christian, author
    A graphic novel which recounts the impact of this 1970's Mexican-American/Native American funk rock band.
    BookSan Diego, CA : IDW, [2020] — A GRAPHIC 781.66022 STAEB
  • Spirit Songs

    the Best of Bill Miller

    Miller, Bill, 1955-
    Music CDSanta Monica, CA : Vanguard, p2004 — CD WORLD MIL
  • Music CD[New York] : Putumayo World Music, p2014. — CD WORLD NAT
  • Artist Tanya Tagaq mixes Inuit throat singing with electronic, classical, punk and rock music.
    Music CD[Canada] : Six Shooter Records, [2016] — CD FOLK TAGAQ