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The 2008 Advisory Membership Voting Ballot to select five nominees in each category for the Tenth Annual Native American Music Awards is now complete. Paper ballots will be mailed to all current Advisory members. Nominees will be announced August 1, 2008 when public voting will commence. The Nomination Selection process is not open to the general public.

Public Voting will take place from August 4 to October 4 2008.

Tenth Annual 
NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
Saturday, October 4, 2008
at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel in Niagara Falls, NY

TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGH ALL TICKETMASTER OUTLETS
PASSPORT NOW REQUIRED TO ENTER CANADIAN SIDE OF THE FALLS
NEAREST AIRPORT: BUFFALO INTERNATIONAL
NEAREST CITIES: BUFFALO & TORONTO, ONTARIO 

NAMA Hall of Fame Commemorative Show
Saturday, August 16th
Featuring Pat Vegas & Redbone, Janice Marie Johnson of Taste of Honey, and Indigenous
in conjunction with the Muckleshoot Tribe & Live Nation
More Details TBA

NEW NATIONAL RECORDINGS SUBMITTED FOR 
TENTH ANNUAL AWARDS :

#1 Draft Pick - Bzatic
(Silence) Is A Weapon – Blackfire
5 Bucks Gas – 191 N.
A Crown of  Stars - Feather, Dunlap & Henke
A Vision of Spiritual Blessing - Merlinda Woody
After The Storm – Exitwound: The Native Axeman
Artificial Red - Randy Kemp
Blest With Skills – Blest One
Blue Moon – Terri Rivera Piatt & Laney Goodman
Blue Scout – Tha Tribe
Blues To Bluegrass – Jim Boyd
Brand New Day - Tanya Brown
Brave New World – Robert Mirabal
Calling All Dancers – Northern Cree & Friends
Celebrate - Native Roots
Chewy Kisses - Larry Emerson Jr.
Chief Seattle Speaks 1854 – Red Hawk
Creating Sacred Space - Tim Yett
Cultural Legacy: Fights Alone - Moon Lodge Singers
Deep Downtown – Jimmy Wolf
Deep Dreams - Nicole
Dirty Water – Michael Bucher
Distant Drums - Red Feather Woman
Dream Scape: Spirit Maiden - Dream Scape
Dreamer “Vision Quest” – Ray Speiss Jr., Brule’, AIRO
Drinking Song – Rezhogs
Express Yourself - Thee Express
Eye of the Tiger – Tiger, Tiger
First Light - Cheevers Toppah & Kevin Yazzie
Follow Your Dreams – Edmund Bull
Forever & Ever - Red Bull
Freedom – Moontee Sinquah
Gathering - Mandaree
Goin’ For It – Terry Tsotigh
Going Home – The Gathering
Graywolf Blues Band – Graywolf Blues Band
Great Spirit Hear Prayers – Meewasin Oma
Harmony Nights – Alex E Smith, Cheevers Toppath, Nitanis “Kit” Landry
Hear The Beat - Blackfoot Confederacy
Heart of the Bitterroot – Various
Heartbeat of the Creator - Kelly Montijo Fink
Hold The Rain – Pura Fe’
Homeland Security - Carroll Medicine Crow
Honoring Women Veterans - Zotigh Singers
Humble Prayers – Denise Becenti
I Am Red – JJ Kent
I’ve Come Too Far To Look Back - Thelma Emerson
In The Blood – Robert Mirabal
Invocation – Chris Ferree
Journeys Through The Mist – The Blessed Blend
Kokyo - Kevin Village Stone/Kiwamura
KSA - Ghosthorse
Lazy James - J.C. Campbell
Learning To Fly - Medicine Dream
Leather & Feathers - Michael Jeans
Levi Platero – Levi Platero & The Plateros
Live At Mt. Rushmore: Concert for Reconciliation of the Cultures – Brule’ & AIRO
Live In Concert - Michael Searching Bear
Love Birds – Archie Cavanaugh
Love, Faith, Hope & Charity - Jarvis Hunter
Loved & Hated – Nightshield
Manifesto – G.E.N.O. (Get Every Native Organized)
Midnight at Clearwater - Jason Chamakese
Mirror Lake – Golana
Moment of Sacredness – Shane Patterson
Mourning Praise Unto Our Creator – Meewasin Oma
My Father’s Fire Dance Songs - Mary Smith
My Spirit Soars - Johnny Mike
My Way - Herman Cody
Mysterys – QuaTisi
Nations Rise - N8V
Native American Hustle – Dago Braves
Navajo Christmas - Todi Neesh Zhee Singers
New Beginning - Janelle Turtle
Nikawiy Askiy – Sandy Scofield
No Lies - Tracy Bone
Oklahoma Style- Walter Ahhaitty & Friends
Old Style: Round Dance Songs – Various
Omèigwessi Reel Metis: A Tribute To Walter Flett – Omèigwessi Ensemble
Our Land Our Life: What Are We Fighting For –Joanne Shenandoah
Paranormal: The War Within - Maniac The Siouxpernatural
Past Due Bills - Off One
Pencil Pushin Album Sad Song - Wellington Downz/Aaron Williams
Phoenix - Fara Palmer
Po’li - Clark Tenakhongva
Points of Origin - Anthony Wakeman & Mr. Soon
Pow Wow - Maddn8v
Prayers For My Father - Clinton Denny with Gerald Primeaux Sr.
Precious Friends - Radmilla Cody
Precious Memories – Cherokee National Youth Choir
Red Christmas – Warscout
Red Fire People – Tommy Wildcat
Red Lodge - Danielle Egnew
Red Road Stories - Eagle & Hawk
Rez Life - Blu
Rezmerized - Ryon Polequaptena
Rise Up & Dance – RainSong: Terry & Darlene Wildman
Road Engine Dreams – Road Engine Dreams
Sacred Land - Johnsy G The Whisper
Salutes The Veterans - Talibah Begay
Save The Last Round Dance For Me - Pimadiziwin Singers
Sedona - Kevin Village Stone/Kiwamura
Silenced My Tongue – Star Nayea
Singing Heavenly & Free – Joe Tohonnie Jr
Sir Harrison & The Blues Kings - Sir Harrison & The Blues Kings
Sketches In Time - Derek Mortland, Michael Joseph
Slavior- Slavior
Songs From My Heart - Chucki Begay
Sounds of Beauty – Estun-Bah
Spirit of the Flute - Douglas Blue Feather
Spirit of the Village Stone - Kevin Willage Stone
Spirit Progression - Larry Redhouse
Starlight Worker - Kevin Village Stone/Kiwamura
Still No Good – The Red Corn Band
Stories Told – Verdell Primeaux & Terry Hawks
Tales From The Lodge – Debra Morningstar
The 8th Fire – Andy Pickard, Cindy Pickard, Tom Bee
The Ballad of Old Times - Davis Mitchell
The Beginning of a New Life - Antonio Woody
The Best of the Best – Terry Lee Whetstone
The Breeze Band - The Breeze Band
The Color Of Morning - Verdell Primeaux & Johnny Mike
The Elk Way - Elk Soldier
The Enlightened Time - Jana
The Four Directions - Delbert Blackhorse
The Good Road – Cheryl Bear
The Native Hip Hop Hour Volume One – Various
The Outsiders - Rezhogs
The Story Tellers - Ken Quiet Hawk
The Sun & The Earth - Stevie Salas
Times We’ve Had – NDN
Totemic Flute Chants - Johnny Whitehorse
Traditional Navajo Shoe Game Songs - Gilbert Begay Sr
Train Train – Blackfoot
Tribal Trance - Socie Saltwater
Unconquered - Injunuity
Unity – Jan Michael Looking Wolf
Visions Of A Past - Wolfs Robe AKA Flute Man
Voyagers – R Carlos Nakai, Udi Bar-David, Will Clipman
Waiting With The Cellular - Navajo Nation Singers
Wanted Alive - XIT
Watch This Dancer! - Black Lodge
Where The Green Grass Grows - The Crow Girls
Wind of the North - Violet Naytowhow
Wolfgirl - Arlette
York Boats & Legends – Ryan D’Aoust


Eligibility Period for Recordings Released
December 31, 2006 to December 31, 2007

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THE SHOW:

· Each year the annual Awards show program features over one dozen mesmerizing and dynamic performances by some of today’s leading Native American artists along with awards presentations in over 30 categories including; Lifetime Achievement and Hall of Fame.
· The Awards show is an extraordinary and unprecedented celebration of today’s best contemporary and traditional musical performances and recordings by Native American artists.
· The Awards program is an innovative, visually advanced production using prerecorded music of the nominees, voice over, live presentations and performances, and IMAG and large screen imaging. This critically acclaimed Music Awards show and its high production values have been featured in Billboard Magazine, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, NY Times, Boston Globe, and CNN.

HISTORY:

· The highly anticipated annual awards show program debuted in 1998 at Foxwoods in Conneticut and drew its first audience of 1500 people in the Northeast. It has since been held throughout the country in cities such as; Albuquerque, Milwaukee, Ft Lauderdale and has drawn its largest audiences in the Southwest and most recently in the Northeast
· Based on ticket sales, an estimated 43 % of our audience travel from all across the country to attend our shows. 
- The Native American Music Awards logo features an emblemed music note with an Eagle Feather as the cleff and Mother Earth's Turtle Island as the base of the note.  
-A Record Number of recordings were submitted for Nomination Consideration in the Ninth Annual Native American Music Awards - Over 200 Recordings. The first annual awards show featured 56 national recordings with a mission and obligation to showcase and bring music from the reservations to larger audiences.


NOMINATION & VOTING PROCESS:

· The Awards show honors national recordings that have been released in the previous calendar year. Nominees are submitted and selected by our national Advisory membership consisting of individuals directly involved in recording, manufacturing, distributing and promoting Native American music nationally.
· Winners are selected by a combined vote by our national membership and the general public who can listen and vote to the tracks of our nominees on our website
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