Music and Stories from across the Americas

If this is your first visit to Oyate (pronounced Oh yah tay), welcome! We have music and stories from over 60 different tribes. For over 30 years, we have been collecting music and stories from all over the Americas. To be honest, we've been in North America for most of the time, but we've gathered stories and music from above the Hudson bay, Quannak and Timmuniaque - Inuit Throat Singers

Quannak and Timmuniaque - Inuit Throat Singers

and south of Mazatlan in the heart of Mexico. We even recorded singers from the Amazon when we went to Trebol Mexico.

Buffalo - The Lost Red Bow Tapes

Now available as a CD or Digital Download

Buddy Red Bow - Oglala Lakota Recorded in 1974, this album has long been rumored to exist - now it's here. Buddy Red Bow, Oglala Lakota, passed on 16 years ago at the age of 44. I recorded Buddy in my first studio, Mr. Dog Music. When he came in with his big black hat, I didn't really know what I was in for. His personality was as big as his hat. The girls couldn't stop loving him, and he lived his life as hard as he could. I always looked forward to seeing Buddy walk through the door. He always brightened up the room. Now, 34 years later, his music is still amazingly fresh, and vibrant.

Click here to listen to all of the samples and buy the digital download of "Buffalo - The Lost Red Bow Tapes"

Indian Love Song

My Friend - The Buffalo

Momma, I'm Sorry

"Preserving Humanity"

We are going to be showing videos from our blog - RealREZ These are stories of life on the reservation. Not the stories of "Indians chasing buffaloes", no, these are stories of live as people live it right now. Sometimes they are happy, sometimes they are sad, but they are always the "real REZ"

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Washaka - The Bear Dreamer

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Sketching the Male Protagonist

This is a little thing I did when I got stuck on a male character in one of my novels. I wanted to know more about Charles so I did a freewriting session to see what I could learn about him. It worked. Sketching the Male Protagonist Charles, like pudding, loose and soft, his shape never molding, he walks the frames of each scene like blue wash background. No stiff poke, no grit, no getty-up. The tender, perfect boy who slips into the back desk in the classroom and listens, never asking questions, never offering opinion, sprung from nothing into nothing, a cartoon without color or fea... Read More

Posted: March 17, 2010