American Indigenous Music

Unfortunately, there aren’t many databases for Indigenous musicians, however, Heard Musuem’s database, which focuses on Indigenous artists, may still have the largest database for the names of Indigenous musicians. Search “music” in the keyword search box to pull up 359 records of Indigenous musicians!

A streaming platform for discovering and listening to music by Indigenous artists.

The Library of Congress has various materials related to Native Music. They have an “Omaha Indian Music” collection. “American Indian music” is the keyword search that will yield the most materials, however keep in mind, terms like “Native American” and “Indigenous” will bring different results of interest.

Drumhop hosts over 4,500 online recordings of traditional Native music free for listening. They have powwow events listed for Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, and Canada. Also, articles and history can be found related to Natives and Native music analysis.

The Robb Archives contains over 3,000 field recordings, as well as phorographs, papers, and records of Southwest research. This collection does not exclusively feature Native research, so you may want to utilize the subject headings to filter the desired outcome.