Janel Munoa
From the Luiseño Mission in Southern California, singer Janel Munoa brings punk rock and soul influences to her debut album Howls From Deep in the Woods. Since losing her mother …
February 26, 2024 Alaska-based Indigenous songwriter Ashley Young is a hopeful romantic with unforgettable vocal warmth. Her lovesick disposition is a light-hearted lens to radical reclamation. …
February 19, 2024 This week's musical journey takes us through a diverse selection of Indigenous music, showcasing both established favorites and emerging talents. The playlist spans …
February 12, 2024 Pamyua was formed in April 1995 by brothers Phillip and Stephen Blanchett. The brothers stumbled upon a musical concept to blend Inuit drum/dance …
From the Luiseño Mission in Southern California, singer Janel Munoa brings punk rock and soul influences to her debut album Howls From Deep in the Woods. Since losing her mother …
Definition of Resilience is a four episode radio and video documentary series highlighting the dynamic stories of Native American hip-hop MCs.
Ojibwe artist Annie Humphrey, daughter of author Anne Dunn, grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation in Northern Minnesota. Learning guitar from her father at a young age, Annie taught …
July 23, 2018 “The beats sometimes are direct references to patterns and rhythms that are related to our families”. Indie-rock band nêhiyawak ("all Cree people") is made up of cousins, guitarist …
July 16, 2018 Of Choctaw heritage from Shawnee, Oklahoma, singer-songwriter Samantha Crain started touring when she was 19 years old. Starting out with an interest in creative writing, she ended up …
July 2, 2018 From the band Indian City, the album Here and Now is a folk/pop celebration of generations of Indigenous music on Canada's 150th anniversary. Vince Fontaine and a collective …
June 25, 2018 Iraq war veteran Melissa Doud, Warrior Songs founder Jason Moon, and Milwaukee music group Mambo Surfers crossed paths in 2016 to create a song of healing. The song …
June 18, 2018 Vocalist Carsen Gray is First Nations Haida from Vancouver, BC. Her 2017 self-titled album received three Indigenous Music Award nominations and awarded her Best New Artist. With soulful …
June 11, 2018 Niiko Soul is a Dakota-Métis vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer from London, Ontario, Canada. A variety of guest vocalists join Niiko on his 2015 album Neon Warrior, a …
June 4, 2018 In 2007, Choctaw composer Brad Clonch and Chickasaw composer Jeff Carpenter from Ada, Oklahoma, formed the band Injunuity. Featuring flute melodies and branching into modern genres, they describe …
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Alexis Sallee is Iñupiaq and Mexican and grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. Her love of filmmaking and sound found its start in radio. After attending Full Sail University where she earned a Bachelors of Science in Recording Arts, she took her skills to L.A. There she worked in audio post-production on various film and television projects including Oculus, Poltergeist, Birth of the Dragon, NBC’s Allegiance, and Showtime documentary Play It Forward. She served as Co-Director and Producer of the 2018 documentary “Definition of Resilience”, which highlights the dynamic stories of Indigenous hip-hop MCs. In 2019, she wrote and directed her debut short film "Who We Are" a personal project dedicated to her Iñupiaq ancestors. Alexis continues to work on cultural visual projects that honors Indigenous stories and people. She has been host and producer of INDIGEFI, formerly Earthsongs, since 2013.