***All New Submission Periods for Advisory Board Members"""" 

NOTE:  THIS YEAR'S SUBMISSION PERIOD WILL BEGIN IN SEPTEMBER OF 2013 DUE TO A POSTPONEMENT OF VOTING AND THE AWARDS SHOW DUE TO HURRICANCE SANDY.

 Advisory Memberships are annual. All Advisory Members must be professionals industry members  in the Native American Music community and responsible for either recording, manufacturing, distributing and/or marketing Native American music to the general public.  All Advisory Members are responsible for submitting completed nomination submission forms  and voting and electing the nominees of the annual Native American Music Awards.

ATTENTION :

In order to participate in our national general public voting process, you must have first registered as a E-member on our website . Once your are registered, you will be able to sign in on our website and follow a link to your personal voting ballot once public voting is opened to the general public and only after nominees have been selected by our Advisory Board membership.

WINNER VOTING IS OPEN TO ALL REGISTERED E-MEMBERS FROM OUR WEBSITE. AN EMAIL WILL BE SENT TO ALL MEMBERS WHEN VOTING COMMENCES.

You may listen to select music tracks of each featured entry on the music players when general public voting is underway. Following the announcement of our nominees, all voting will be opened to the general public.

Thank you for supporting the World's Leading Resource for Contemporary and Traditional Native American Music Initiatives & the largest Native American Music Membership Contigency in the World featuring a collection of over 10,000 audio and video recordings in all formats housed in our national archives since 1990!




HOW TO SUBMIT A RECORDING FOR THE NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS:

-Register as a Member

-Submit a Nomination Submission Form with 3 copies of your CD

SAMPLE OF THE 2012 MEMBERSHIP AND SUBMISSION FORMS

NEW FORMS TO BECOME AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER  2013

Please click the BUY NOW button below to purchase your annual membership or visit our Merchandise Page to become a member online or mail or a check or money order in with your submission and membership application.

OUR BEGINNINGS

Founded in 1998, the Native American Music Awards & Association was born out of a need to provide greater opportunity and recognition for traditional and contemporary Native American musicians.

Following the debut of the Awards, The Native American Music Association was established as a 501(c)(3) membership-driven organization in order to directly assist Native American musicians and continue educating the general public. Two current programs of the Association are; 1) Establishing and maintaining the world's largest Native American music archive, 2) Creating greater performance opportunities for award-winning and nominated artists.

Over the past decade, we have received letters of acknowledgement from former President George Bush and a proclamation from NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Our national music archive has become the world's largest Native American music archive in the world. As part of our annual monitoring and research of Native American music recordings, we successfully proposed a new category for Native American music in the Grammies in 2000 at the request of their Vice President. We have trained Native American youth in concert events and productions; helped MTV Networks establish a cultural diversity program to recruit Native American employees, educate and entertain employees of parent company, Viacom, placed Native American artists in collaborations with mainstream artists; returned a lost song of the late Apache leader, Geronimo, back to his family and continue to present special music concerts and festivals from Alaska to New York City.

Today, the Native American Music Association (NAMA) and the Native American Music Awards has grown to become the country’s leading source for preserving and promoting the songs of American Indians from all four directions. The NAMA's are honoring our songmakers, fostering pride, providing national exposure, and celebrating their gift of music with others around the world. Their personal and professional contributions and the determination and dedication of our volunteer staff lasting over a decade now, continually creates magical opportunities of Native pride and musical excellence.

The Annual Native American Music Awards, or NAMA's, which USA Today urges to “take seriously” and Indian Country Today has called, “Awesome & Incredible” proudly honors the outstanding musical achievements of Native American artists from across the country. The Awards ceremony is an innovative, visually advanced production using prerecorded music of the nominees, voice over, live presentations and performances, and IMAG and large screen imaging. Our Awards program has been acclaimed for having “all the professionalism and production values of much larger events like the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards”, American Federation of Radio Television Artists.

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