FolkLib Index - Wisconsin Native American Indian Musicians

          This page lists links for Native American Indian Musicians both currently or formerly based in Wisconsin. All recordings by all artists/groups here will be listed in my forthcoming book, "FolkLib Index: Wisconsin Discography".

          Please write if you or your group would like to be listed on this page. Every entry includes the artist's or group's Affiliation with a Federally Recognized Tribe, so be sure to include this information when you request a link.

Related Wisconsin Native American sites - Great Lakes Intertribal Council

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| Native American discography |

A - ABC... Artist Selection
• .Acoustic Warriors - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Native Voices) ( CD Baby), Itin ( Musi-Cal) [Active: 19??-] [Milwaukee]
            ( Andrew Conners [Bad River Ojibwe], Ron Jones [Hochungra]) - (former member: Adam Singer [Crow])
• .Anakwad (Frank Montano) [Ojibwe] (courting flute) - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Author ? [Archive]) ( Wisconsin Arts Board), Itin ( Musi-Cal), Picture ( Smithsonian) - (member: The Woodland Consort) [Bayfield]
  B  
• .Bad River Singers [Bad River Chippewa] [Odanah]
            (Drum Group: members?)
• .Bear Claw Singers [St. Croix Chippewa] [Hertel]
            (Drum Group: members?)
• .Bucks Drum Group, The [Milwaukee]
  C - ABC... Artist Selection
• .Cedar Wind - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Laughing Cat Records) ( Wisconsin Arts Board), Itin ( Musi-Cal), Bookings [Fort Atkinson]
            ( Christine Ibach [Cree], Al Jewer)
  D  
• .Duck Creek Crossing [Tribe?] - Page ( PowWows.com #1 / #2) [city?]
            (Drum Group: Patrick Madrid (Head Singer), others?)
  F - ABC... Artist Selection
• .Fernandez, Wade (guitar, piano, vocals) [Menominee] - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Author ?), Itin ( Musi-Cal), Wis. Festivals ( OTMCF), Bibliog ( FolkLib Index) - (member: Haze) [Menominee County, city?]
• .First Nations Singers - Discog ( FolkLib Index) [Appleton]
            ( Doris Craig [Lenape], Denise Crouse [Delaware], Barbara Wisneski [Oneida])
• .Five Clan Singers [Tribe?] - Page ( PowWows.com) [city?]
            (Drum Group: William "Kuzco" Beauprey (Head Singer), others?)
• .Flying Feather Band - Page ( Mary Sacredheart) [Active: 19??-] [Oneida]
            ( Waubano, Richie Plass, anon.) - (former member: Victor Boudreaux 19??-2006)
• .Four Nation Singers [Tribe?] - Page ( PowWows.com) [city?]
            (Drum Group: Harold Katchenago (Head Singer), others?)
  H - ABC... Artist Selection
• .Hammill, Brian [Tribe?] - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Native Spirit Productions), Bibliog ( FolkLib Index) [city?]
• .Hawk, Dennis
  L  
• .LCO Soldier's Drum [Lac Court Oreilles] [Hayward]
            (Drum Group: members?)
  M - ABC... Artist Selection
• .Miller, Bill [Stockbridge-Munsee]
• .Miller, Clinton J. [Stockbridge-Munsee] - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Stockbridge-Munsee Community) ( MilwaukeeRocks.com), Review ( Abbey Thompso), Wis. Festivals ( OTMCF) [city?]
            [not the Country Christian singer, Clint Miller]
  P - ABC... Artist Selection
• .Plass, Richie [Menominee & Stockbridge-Munsee] - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Native Voices), Bibliog ( FolkLib Index), Bookings - (member: The Wolf River Band, Flying Feather Band) [Green Bay / Oneida]
  S - ABC... Artist Selection
• .Sacred Leader [Tribe?] - Page ( PowWows.com) [city?]
            (Drum Group: Dennis Danforth (Head Singer), others?)  
• .Smokeytown Singers, The [Menominee] - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Author ? [Archive]) ( PowWows.com) [Active: 1973-] [Neopit]
            (Drum Group: Myron Pyawasit (Head Singer), see Discography for other members)
• .Strong Medicine [Founded on the Oneida Reservation] [city?]
            They played at the 24th Annual WAMI Awards Ceremony on 4-26-2004, but I can find no home page for them, no list of who is in this band, and no information about their recordings. The only ones I recognized are:
            (Wade Fernandez, Ron Jones, ?)
  T - ABC... Artist Selection
• .Thompson, Darren (courting flute, storyteller) - [Ojibwe/Tohono O'odham] - Page ( Author ? current site, empty / old site [Archive]) ( www.myspace.com/nowacumiq) [Lac du Flambeau / Green Bay]
• .Three Fires Society Drum [Lac Court Oreilles] [Hayward]
            (Drum Group: members?)
• .Thunderchief (Wakanjah Hoonk / Francis Steindorf) [Hochungra (Ho-Chunk)] - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Author ?) ( Wisconsin Arts Board), Article ( Viterbo College) [La Crosse (grad. Viterbo University 1980.) / Madison / Black River Falls / Merced, CA]
• .Thunderkloud, Billy and the Chieftones [Tsimshian] - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Bibliog ( FolkLib Index) [BC, Canada / Boaz / Nashville, TN]
  W - ABC... Artist Selection
• .Webster, Louis T. [Oneida/Menominee/Ojibwa] - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Native Voices), Bookings [city?]
• .Wettlin-Larsen, Georgia (Whirling Wind Woman) [Assiniboine/Nakota] - Discog ( FolkLib Index) ( UBL), Orders ( Smithsonian Folkways) ( National Museum of the American Indian) ( Barnes and Noble) ( Allies: media/art) [city?]
• .Winnebago Sons [Tribe?] [Baraboo]
            (Drum Group: members?)
• .Woerpel, Mark [Tribe?] - Discog ( FolkLib Index), Page ( Noc Bay Trading Company), Interview ( QCA CD Duplication) - (member: The Bystanders, Warp Drive 1986-1991, Blackfoot 1992-1996) [city?]
• .Wolf River Band, The - Page ( Scott Rudolph), WAMI Nominations/Awards ( FolkLib Index) [city?]
            ( Richie Plass, Colonel Darrel "Bootie" O'Katchicum, Grover Werner)

• . KALIHWIYóSE Radio Program (Chris Powless, Dawn Thomas, Richie Plass)
            (WPNE 89.3 FM, Green Bay, Thursday, 10:00 pm - 12:00 am)
• . Great Lakes Intertribal Council - Pow-wow FAQ
• . Educational Communications Board - New Dawn of Tradition: A Wisconsin Powwow
• . Milwaukee Public Museum - Wisconsin Tribal Communities - Music and Musical Instruments - Site Map
• . NativeRadio
• . PowWows.com - Wisconsin Drum Groups [Archive]
• . Index of Native American Resources on the Internet (Karen M. Strom)
            - Wisconsin Indian Tribes
            - All Federally Recognized Tribes in Wisconsin
• . UW-Fond du Lac
            - Educational Resources on Wisconsin Indian Nations [Archive]
            - Preliminary Bibliography of Wisconsin Indian Authors [Archive]

Great Lakes Intertribal Council

      Wisconsin
1. . Bad River Chippewa [Odanah]
2. . Forest County Potawatomi Community [Crandon]
3. . Ho-Chunk Nation (aka Hochungra) [Black River Falls]
             (formerly the Wisconsin Winnebago Tribe)
4. . Lac Court Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa [Hayward]
5. . Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa [Lac du Flambeau]
6. . Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin - College of Menominee Nation [Keshena]
7. . Oneida Nation [Oneida]
8. . Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa [Bayfield]
9. . St. Croix Band of Lake Superior Chippewa [Hertel]
10. . Sokaogon Mole Lake Chippewa Community [Crandon]
11. . Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians [Bowler]
          Michigan
12. . Lac Vieux Desert Tribe of Michigan [Watersmeet, MI]

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