How to Teach Native American Music in the School Classroom

This is a Northern Paiute numbers song using the dialect I learned as a little girl. This melody is from a circle dance song of the Great Basin. There are many circle dance songs and this one I created to be used in the classroom. You have my permission to teach and use the song with mention of myself, the composer. It is proper protocol to tell people where you got the songs you sing. 

Native American performance highlighting the Pow wow dance styles, various other tribal music samplings, hoop dance, and interviews with all dancers in the performance including a spoken word performance.

A panel discussion, facilitated by Brandi Pace, Executive Director of Decolonizing the Music Room (DTMR), on the current discourse of music educators as seen through the lens of the Black Lives Matter movement and the lived-experience of the panelists: Lorelei Batislaong (Deputy Director, DTMR), Chris Mena, Syreeta Neal, Alice Tsui, and John Grimsley.

Join music educators Tiffany Unarce Barry, Kassey Castro, Czarina Jimenez, and DTMR Deputy Director Lorelei Batislaong as they share their experiences of being Filipino Americans. They discuss being children of immigrants, assimilation into dominant U.S. culture, Filipino representation (or lack thereof), colorism within the Filipino community, and the model minority myth. They discuss the joys of being Fil-Am and the widely unknown history of Filipino activism in the States.