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Willie Nelson says the Dixie Chicks got "a raw deal" when they voiced disapproval of President Bush in 2003. According to an Assoc...

Posted here are the minutes to this year's Christian Harmony singing at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. They were co...

A valuable source on Dena'ina Athabascan music is the "Dena'ina K'eliga" (Songs) page on the Dena'ina Qenaga websi...

Copied from an email message I just sent out to members of the Prairieland Dulcimer Strings in Springfield on the theory (mentioned below) t...

Here's a website where you can access a four-minute sound file of a kolyadka from Ukraine by a vocal ensemble from Kiev called Drevo. S...

Lately I've been reading up on how Alaska Native and Russian Orthodox cultures influenced each other's music, and this weekend I fou...

Cross-posted to music and teaching blogs for potential use in HUM 221 (Native American cultures) in the spring of 2007. A valuable article i...

Reprinted from the July 2006 issue of The Prairie Picayune, volunteer newsletter at Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site. One of New...

Here's an interesting angle on the move for "English only" laws that accompany the current round of hysteria over immigration....

Nora Dauenhauer, the Tlingit poet and scholar, has a poem "How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River" on the Poetics and Polit...

Eklutna village is an Tanaina (or Dena'ina) Indian settlement about 25 miles northeast of Anchorage just off the Glenn Highway near the ...

A couple of links and a couple of questions. Both have to do with Native American storytelling, and both may give you something to think abo...

Native American art in the Pacific Northwest reached a high level of sophistication, especially in the visual arts. One reason is that they ...

In class Wednesday, we saw the first part of a video on powwows called "Into the Circle." As I was watching it and observing your...

I'm posting here an email message I got from a student, whom I won't embarrass by identifying, because her question ... and my answe...

Written for members of the Charleston-Mattoon Sacred Harp Singers, before the annual Preachin' n' Singing, Lincoln Log Cabin State H...

Editor's Note. I'm pasting in an schedule for the annual Western Carolina University Mountain Dulcimer Week workshop at Cullowhee, ...

We're been talking about family in Humanities 221 lately, and how cultural values are passed down from father to son, or mother to daugh...

An experiment for HUM 221 -- We'll read "In 1864" by Navajo (Dine) poet Luci Tapahonso in class Wednesday. To take full advant...

HUM 221 student advisory -- This post adds a new persepctive to our thread on reader response. From Ireland, of all places. It's from a ...