1995
Guai a chi ci tocca

Disco del supergruppo nato dalla fusione (temporanea) dei Bisca con i 99 Posse

Inedito

[2025]
Testo e musica / Lyrics and music / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel:Joe Natta
Album / Albumi: Tramonti sul Far West

Cavallo Pazzo (in inglese Crazy Horse) è stato un celebre capo e guerriero della tribù dei Lakota Oglala, vissuto nel XIX secolo. Nato intorno al 1840, è ricordato per il suo coraggio, la sua leadership e la sua determinazione nel difendere la cultura e le terre del suo popolo contro l’espansione degli Stati Uniti. Partecipò a importanti battaglie, tra cui la famosa Battaglia di Little Bighorn del 1876, in cui le forze indigene sconfissero il generale Custer. Cavallo Pazzo è considerato un simbolo della resistenza dei nativi americani e un eroe della loro storia. Morì nel 1877, in circostanze controverse, dopo essersi arreso alle autorità statunitensi.

2022
Roll & go

The hangings at Battleford refers to the hanging on November 27, 1885, of eight Indigenous men for murders committed in the First Nations uprising that occurred at the time of the North-West Rebellion. The executed men were found guilty of murder in the Frog Lake Massacre and in the Looting of Battleford. These murders took place outside the military combat that took place during the North-West Rebellion.

The court trials were presided over by magistrate Charles Rouleau. The trials and hangings followed the Looting of Battleford, where the judge himself suffered material loss.

Prior to the rebellion the Canadian government's actions in the District of Saskatchewan resulted in starvation, disease, and death among the Indigenous peoples of the area. Traditional means of self-support, such as buffalo disappeared with the sale of lands.

At both Frog Lake and Battleford, some people took up arms against the wishes of their leaders. Some were sentenced to prison terms or death. Others fled to the United States.

[2006]
Lyrics and Music by Leela Gilday
On the album 'Sedzé'
(The title of the album means "my heart" in the North Slavey language, a group of Athabaskan languages spoken amongst the Dene peoples of Canada in the Northwest Territories)

Empowerment through the sound of drumming, as people "standing in the shelter of ancients / ... are marching to the beat / of one drum, one drum".
This song is about a person’s ability and freedom to make decisions in life, being proud of herself and her roots, being connected to other people to create changes for a better life.

[2017]
Testo e musica: Katherine Paul (alias Black Belt Eagle Scout)
Seconda traccia dell'album 'Mother Of My Children' e terzo single estratto di qual album
Video dal regista Diné e queer Evan James Atwood
Girato sulle terre ancestrali delle tribu Chinook, Chinnuk Wawa, e Tillamook

Gli indiani non muoiono mai! Il titolo di questa poesia-canzone non riprende nessuno dei suoi versi, né letteralmente né come parafrasi. Ha un carattere proverbiale che risponde indirettamente alle domande poste dal testo, ovvero se percepiamo ciò che ci circonda, ciò che ci costituisce, ciò che la vita ci regala, ciò che era lì molto prima di noi e che rimarrà anche dopo. Oppure siamo tra coloro che sprecano e dilapidano questa eredità, separandone? Queste domande sulla percezione del mondo ci chiedono di prendere posizione nella nostra relazione, nella nostra presenza al mondo. Le risposte che diamo sono... (continua)

[2020]
Song written by Keith Secola
Video produced & directed by Suez Taylor, additional footage by Lance Lindahl,
with Winona Laduke, Tara Houska, Pua Case, Tania Aubid, James Northrup III, Lorna Hanes & other resistors.
'Book of Life' from the 2021 record 'Room, Enough, Time Enough' by David Huckfelt (The Pines)



Dedicated to Indigenous land & water protectors standing up & speaking out for Mother Earth all across Turtle Island.

For information on the StopLine3 resistance in Minnesota opposing the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline bringing dirty tar sands oil across Indigenous lands & the delicate Great Lakes ecosystem, please visit Giniw Collective
And see also the song 'No More Pipeline Blues' in this same section of AWS

[2019]
Song By: Okema
Released as a Music Video
Instrumental By: Boogey The Beat
Mixed, Mastered & Directed By: Blu Barry
Elder Speaking: Floyd Red Crow Westerman

A song about both the history the white American colonial state prepared for the natives and the role natives attribute themselves.

"Through our chiefs and our elders we are guided
Divided we fall but together stand united
For our earth and our water we will fight it
Our mother earth is crying and now you cant deny it
We are not the enemy that we're said to be
We're thinking of the generation that's ahead of me
So we'll continue to take the earth back for all of us
White Black or Brown well together we should stand up!"

On his Facebook page Okema writes:

'When I wrote Life of a Native I did a lot of research because I knew that in order to connect with my people I had to go to the darkness that has plagued my... (continua)

[2019]
The song has to be credited collectively to Taboo & the Magnificent 7 (Mag 7)
Video and song produced by IllumiNative and Taboo
Shot in the Pechanga Indian Reservation, Temeluca, California
Released on October 14, 2019, on Indigenous Peoples' Day

Taboo from Black Eyed Peas, is from Mexican parents, but also from Shoshone heritage. He is committed to the empowerment of Native people through the music industry and advocates with this song, released that particular day, collective awareness of the common heritage for an empowered action on the world, living the values of common good they share. The production of the song is also a collective one. It follows up and consolidates a first collaboration of 2016 with more artists, including the "Magnificent 7", not credited as such but as individual artists at the time of the release: the video song was "Stand up / Stand N Rock" released... (continua)

[2001]
Title song of the eponymous album, awarded “Best Pop/Rock Album of the Year” 2002 Native American Music Awards.
Bass, Voice – Jeneda Benally
Drums, Voice – Clayson Benally
Voice, Guitar – Klee Benally

[2021]
Released as a single music video

‘Rainbow of color’: Sihasin single “We the People” goes global - Navajo Times

Negli anni '90, i fratelli Clayson e Jeneda Benally, appartenenti alle tribù Diné (Navajo), insieme al fratello Klee, hanno creato una band punk rock chiamata Blackfire quando erano adolescenti. Nel 2011, la band si è sciolta. Secondo i fratelli, mentre i Blackfire erano basati sulla loro rabbia per l'ingiustizia, hanno creato i Sihasin per dare forza e ispirare gli altri a creare un cambiamento.


Empowerment e White washing

Gli Stati Uniti d'America - ma non solo loro - praticano senza complessi il doppio linguaggio e non temono di essere colti in flagrante. E questo è particolarmente vero quando si tratta dei diritti dei nativi che hanno massacrato, costretto nelle riserve, con trattati che si sono riservati il diritto di non rispettare, tutto questo per affermare la... (continua)

[2021]
Featuring Joy Harjo, Bonnie Raitt, Mumu Fresh, Indigo Girls, Winona LaDuke, Pura Fe, Soni Moreno, Jennifer Kreisberg, Day Sisters.
Music: Larry Long
Words: Larry Long, Winona LaDuke, Keri Pickett, Buffy Sainte Marie, Keith Secola, Pura Fe, Dorene Day, Waubanewquay, Marian Moore, Pam Mahling
Produced by Larry Long
Released on Earth Day in 2021

MAP of the Line 3 oil pipeline through treaty-land, reservations and watersheds

FEATURED VOCALISTS
Waubanewquay: Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Winona LaDuke: Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Pura Fe: Tuscarora & Taíno Nations
Soni Moreno: Mayan, Apache & Yaqui Nations
Jennifer Kreisberg: Tuscarora Nation
Day Sisters (Sharon Day, Charlene Day-Castro, Dorene Day, Julia Uleberg): Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Mumu Fresh (aka Maimouna Youssef): Creek & Choctaw Nations
Indigo Girls (Amy Ray & Emily Saliers)
Bonnie Raitt
Joy Harjo,... (continua)

[2011]
Single file
Poema e musica di Joy Harjo
This America - Joy Harjo

Quale America? Questa America!
Un bellissimo poema ambientato in una musica suggestiva. Un volo tra aquila e terra. Un invito a ricordare l'essenziale, ciò che presiede alla vita. Il cielo, le stelle, il sole, la terra. E noi, siamo solo la sua pelle. Però questo "noi" include tutto ciò che vive, anche il vento, le acque. E tutto questo crea un sentiero di memoria. Un sentiero in cui nessuna impronta va mai dimenticata. È tutto costitutivo di un percorso in corso di scrittura .
Gli antenati guardano alla scrittura dell'America. Cosa fare di questa America, con la sua storia di colonizzazione delle nazioni indigene e della natura? Distruggerla in nome di questa storia? Oppure produrre una luce di speranza, ritrovando il senso di comune appartenenza alla terra d'America.
In opposizione al senso di appartenenza della... (continua)

[2016]
Dee Snider's Standing Rock Music Video "So What"
On the album "We are the ones"

"This music video documents the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest at Standing Rock. While capturing the police brutality and human rights violations against peaceful Water Protectors, the filmmakers were tear gassed, targeted and shot with rubber bullets in an unconstitutional suppression of free press.
Special thanks to The American Indian Movement, Graywolf, Pony, the Indigenous People and Water Protectors everywhere."

End credits:

"On November 20th 2016, a thousand unarmed peaceful Water Protectors were assaulted by police on treaty land. For nine hours, they were attacked with flash bang grenades, tear gas, mace, rubber bullets and water cannons in subfreezing conditions.

Hundreds were treated for hypothermia and other injuries, including 21 year old Sophia Wilankski, whose arm was blown apart by... (continua)

[2016]
September 2016, first video version
January 2017, updated video version and audio file
Lyrics: Prolific The Rapper
Music: A Tribe Called RED (Original Song: Stadium Pow Wow, June 2016, with a beautiful video too and the allusive presence of the black snake)

Beyond Standing Rock: Seeking Solutions and Building Awareness at Tribal Colleges

What is the black snake in the Standing Rock?
There's an ancient Lakota prophecy about a black snake that would slither across the land, desecrating the sacred sites and poisoning the water before destroying the Earth. For many Indigenous people gathered near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, that snake has a name — the Dakota Access pipeline.

What is Turtle Island?
Turtle Island is a name for Earth or North America, used by some American Indigenous peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on a creation... (continua)

[2016]
Song produced by Printz Board as a video.
Written by Taboo

Video directed and edited by Johnny Lee, filmed by Baxter Stapelton and includes actress and Divergent series star Shailene Woodley; artists: TABOO of Black Eyed Peas, Tony Duncan (flute), Perry Cheevers (intro/native chant), PJ Vegas (hook), Kahara Hodges (hook), Emcee One (2nd verse), Drezus (2nd verse/pos-hook), Supaman (bridge) Gerald Danforth (bridge), Spencer Battiest (last verse), Doc Battiest (last verse), and MyVerse (verse), Martin Sensmeier, Bethany Yellowtail, Lehi Thunder Voice Eagle, Shalene Joseph, Temryss Lane, Gina Tiger, Indigenous Enterprise, and Jukasa Media Group. Additional footage provided by Heather Rae, Stacey Thunder, Ben Dupris, and Cody Lucich - Thank u all for Standing Up 4 Standing Rock.

"Stand Up / Stand N Rock” is a collaborative project between the People’s Climate Music and Hip Hop artist... (continua)

[2021]
Music Video Filmed On the Rosebud Reservation
Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Frank Waln for FDW Entertainment
First released as a video and single file
On the album "In the Key of Lakota" (2021)

' The impact of settler colonialism is still evident in America today, widely impacting Indigenous communities across the country. On the Rosebud Reservation alone, Waln says, poverty is rampant. Unemployment levels are over 80%, and violence and addiction have become a problem that desperately needs solving.

To continue experiencing the consequences of colonialism compounds the trauma experienced by both the old and new generations, Waln says.

“I use music to process this pain,” he said. “In my culture, we look at medicine from a non-Western perspective. And music is medicine, so I’m constantly trying to find new ways to keep making new and better medicine for myself and sharing... (continua)

[2015]
On his first studio record, "The Bridge" [2017]
Lyrics by Frank Waln, with samples from Disney's 1953 "Peter Pan"

Lakota rapper and activist Frank Waln wrote this scathing satire of the song “What Made The Red Man Red?” from Disney’s 1953 film Peter Pan to criticize its broadly stereotypical portrayal of Native American tribes. Using audio samples from the original song, he lambasts the United States for its legacy of colonialism and genocide in what was originally Native territory as well as Hollywood’s whitewashing of the harsh history of U.S.-Native relationships.

The song was first released on Dec. 29, 2015, on KOYA FM, the local radio station for the Sicangu Oyate (Oyate is the Lakota word for nation). Place and date are significant: on that December day of 1890, about 300 Lakota were slaughtered by the US 7th Cavalry in what remains sadly known as the Wounded Knee Massacre.... (continua)

[2020]
On the album "Born Ready"

Many of Waln's songs tackle Native American social issues. In this particular song, introduced and concluded by spoken words by John Trudell, he put's the social issues in the larger perspective of a perpetuation of the historical "Indian Wars" in a still lasting "white war" against the identities, ways of life of the native people. As oppression has many ways, it needs a lot on both side to find a way out. Resistance on one side and apologies on the other won't do it alone. It needs deconstruction of the minds and decolonization of the memories. And the key is sovereignty. And the misunderstandings about it.

“Every time I perform, there’s people in the crowd who were alive when it was illegal for us to be Lakota. So, even though you know that history is in the past, it’s very much impacted our reality,”

Here the link to a CNN rewritten interview with... (continua)

[1986 / 1997]
On the 1997 album "Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century" by Joy Harjo & Poetic Justice
Lyrics [1986] and Music by Joy Harjo

The song honors the spirit of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, a Mi'kmaq activist who dedicated her life to help Indian people everywhere, organizing social care, involved with educational projects and participating to protests. She was involved with the American Indian Movement (AIM), participated in the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973, became the higher-ranked woman in the AIM. She disappeared in December 1975 and was found murdered in February 1976. She was 30 years old. (For further details, see the accompanying notice to the song "Anna Mae" by Larry Long)
At the time Harjo wrote the poem/song, the murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash was still a cold case.

[2000]
Album: The Reign
War Party - The Reign
On their next album (The Greatest Natives From The North, 2002) they recorded a remixed version of the song.
The Greatest Natives from the North, by War Party

"Made up of Rex Smallboy, Cynthia Smallboy, Karmen Omeosoo, Bryan Omeosoo, Ryan Small and Tom Crier [all of Plains Cree descent], War Party was the first Indigenous hip-hop group to have a music video televised nationally on MuchMusic in 2001. Their award-winning album The Reign (2000) and single “Feeling Reserved” gave voice to First Nations youth and inspired a new generation of Indigenous hip-hop artists.

War Party made it their mission to lead, inspire and empower young fans with socially conscious music, and to raise mainstream awareness around issues associated with poverty, systematic oppression, addiction, and the disturbing legacy of residential school trauma."
Taken from:... (continua)

[2013]
On their second Album "Dark as Night"
Written by Nahko

Within a spoken intro (by John Trudell) and an outro, as well spoken, the song expresses quite some of the topics about history, living conditions of native people, with the inequalities that still exist today, and the need to find their way within the society. The "guidance" the song prays for, should be the attachment to the land (not to a flag).

Album: Blackbraid I (2022)

2025
Un'altra mano di carte

2023
La pace tenace

1972
The Voice of the Eagle

2009
Peace Pipe

1971

2021
Somos

feat. Lila Downs

Dignificamos y honramos la existencia y las luchas de todos los pueblos indígenas del mundo, las ancestralidades y los caminos plurales que el tiempo nos convoca a transitar.

1997
Wounded Knee