American Warriors
Songs for Indian Veterans

Various Artists

360 degrees / Rykodisc RCD 10370

Native American chants and songs. Mickey Hart was the Executive producer for the release.

• War Paint / Soldier Boy
• In The South The Birds Are Flying
• Lakota (Sioux) Little Bighorn Victory Songs
• Carnegie War Mothers' Chapter (Kiowa) Veterans Song
• World War I & II
• Canadian (Lakota) Flag Song
• American (Lakota) Flag Song
• Four Hochunk (Winnebago) Service Songs - Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force
• Menominee Vietnam Veterans Song
• Indian Boys from Desert Storm

Musicians

• War Paint - Richard LaFernier
• Soldier Boy - Black Lodge Singers
• In The South The Birds Are Flying - Eniwube
• Lakota (Sioux) Little Bighorn Victory Songs - Edgar Red Cloud
• Carnegie War Mothers' Chapter (Kiowa) Veterans Song - Kiowa War Mothers Chapter Singers
• World War I & II - Black Lodge Singers
• Canadian (Lakota) Flag Song - Sioux Valley Singers
• American (Lakota) Flag Song - Ft. Kipp Sioux Singers
• Four Hochunk (Winnebago) Service Songs - Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force - Winnebago Sons
• Menominee Vietnam Veterans Song - Smokeytown Singers
• Indian Boys from Desert Storm - Black Lodge Singers

Credits

• Executive producer - Mickey Hart
• Producer - Thomas Vennum, Jr
• Project management, coordination - Howard Cohen
• Engineers - Jens McVoy, Tom Flye
• Computer editing - Charles Stella
• Editing, equalization performed at Studio X, Sonoma County
• Design - Steven Jurgensmeyer
• Front cover illustration - Anonymous Cheyenne pictograph
• Photography - Joel Grimes, National Anthropologigal Archives, Smithsonian Institution
• Liner notes - Charlotte Heth, Thomas Vennum, Jr

• Special thanks to - Canyon Records, Don DeWitt, Robert Doyle, Don France, Kenneth Funmaker, Sr., Marc Gilman, Ives Goddard, Judith Gray, Joel Grimes, Oren Hatton, Jake Horniak, Lawrence Hooper, Calvin Jumping Bull, Fredric Lieberman, Cheryl McEnaney, Jason McCormick, Jens McVoy, John Nichols, Kenny Scabby Robe, Sheila Shigley, Keith Secola, Brother C.M. Simon, Jeff Sterling, Bruce Wallace

Songs Inspired by battles from the Little Bighorn to the Gulf War as performed by members of the Ojibway (Chippewa), Menominee, Blackfeet, Kiowa, Hochunk (Winnebago) and Lakota (Sioux) tribes.

Related releases

Soldier Boy, World War I & II and Indian Boys From Desert Storm were originally released on;

• Veterans' Honor Songs, Black Lodge Singers, 1993, Canyon Records CR-16212

  Canadian Flag Song and American Flag Song were originally released on;

  • Fort Kipp Sioux Singers at Fort Qu'Appelle, Fort Kipp Singers/Sioux Valley Singers, 1971, Canyon Records CR-6079

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