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, and south of Mazatlan in the heart of Mexico. We even recorded singers from the Amazon when we went to Trebol Mexico.
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Buffalo - The Lost Red Bow Tapes

Buddy Red Bow - Oglala LakotaRecorded 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. $ 9.95

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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"
Preserving Humanity
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Washaka - The Bear Dreamer


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Jamie Lee was awarded a
Ben Franklin Award
for "Best New Voice in Fiction" in 2007 and was a finalist in PEN USA for Children's Literature
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Jamie Lee's Blog

December Newsletter

Dear Friends, I begin to think this is a quarterly newsletter. I entered the semester at Oglala Lakota College in mid-August and am just now coming up for air. I took on a load of six classes, traveling three times a week to Pine Ridge for classes and meetings. Too much. Today I was driving back across this beautiful land beneath a bright sky. The land, normally burned and dry by now, is still green. I was thinking about my students and imagining our goodbyes a few weeks from now and tears came to my eyes. I had just heard Elizabeth Lynn-Cook (a Dakota scholar and writer) speak and was m... Read More
Posted: December 31, 2007