This 1995 album features performances rarely heard beyond these artists' communities, as well as new recordings by prominent artists like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joanne Shenandoah, and Sharon Burch. The 34 tracks offer a sweeping overview of traditional and contemporary music (solo, choral, and instrumental) from women of many nations, including Iroquois, Cherokee /Tuscarora, Apache, Sioux, Navajo, Karuk, Ojibwa, Shasta, Nahua, Seminole, Athabaskan, Zumi, Pueblo, and Cree; artists include Six Nations Women Singers, Crying Woman Singers, and Sweethearts of Navajoland. With extensive notes illuminating Native women's musical history and development, this vital recording is the perfect way to discover new sounds and stories found in Native women's centuries-old music making.

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