Native American Songs

Songs

• Bebi Notsa – Creek
• Buffalo Dance – Kiowa
• Dust of the Red Wagon – Ute
• Epanay – Sioux
• Happiness Song – Navajo
• Happy Song – Navajo
• Hosisipa
• Hiya Hiya – Pawnee
• Hwi Ne Ya Ha
• Inuit Lullaby – Inuit
• Lullaby – Sioux
• Maple Sugar Time – Ottawa
• Mos Mos – Hopi
• Pleasure Dance – Choctaw
• Song of the Deer Dancing – Chippewa
• Song to the Sun – Zuni
• Tribal Prayer – Omaha
• Uhe Bashon Shon – Omaha
• Wanagi Wacipi Olowan (He he wanna wawate) – Dakota
• Wanagi-Wacipi Olowan (Ya ha) – Dakota
• Ya Ya We – Wichita

See also

• Native American Basket Dance
• folk songs from the United States
• Pow Wow Music
• Pow Wow
• Black Hills Pow Wow
  • This DVD good examples of Pow Wow. And, it teaches the kids how to do simple pow wow steps in slow motion. I have the kids put their “bubbles” on and try both the men’s and women’s dance steps. They are harder than they look!

  

  (I show the kids how well the drum players can play on the steady beat – all together – see Pow Wow Music link below.) Then we add steady beat to drums as we sing the next song. I like using the gathering drum I have – with about 6 students per drum.