NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS NOMINEE ANNOUNCEMENT

As of 11/7/2024

Congratulations to all the  Nominees!

New York, NY - The Native American Music Awards is ready to celebrate and honor their most powerful voices with the announcement of the organization’s 21st Annual Awards nominees. Commemorating National Native American Heritage month, the Awards proudly recognizes Indigenous artists from all communities across North America.  This year’s Awards program celebrates and features an overwhelming amount of music talent who have produced  full length albums, single recordings and music video releases.  Winners will be announced in early 2025 following the completion of 10,000 voting ballots.

On behalf of our Advisory Board Committee, the Native American Music Awards would like to congratulate all the nominees.  Public voting is now open at www.NAMALIVE.com. 

BEST  ALTERNATIVE RECORDING

2Sacred (Two Spirit Sacred)-- - Somewhere - Marx Cassity (Osage)

Glorify Your Name - Running on Empty - Matthew Hawk (Navajo/Cherokee)

Grandma’s Boy - LNW - Sequoia Crosswhite (Oohenunpa, Wakpekute, Sihasapa Mnicoujou Ihanktowan )

Indian Route 15 - Indian Route 15 - One Way Sky (Gila River Indian Community/ Tohono O’odham Nation)

Ruthless Time (prod. by Terrance Jade) - Juliana Brown Eyes (Oglala Lakota)

Self-Portrait - Waves - Asiah Holm (Cree First Nations)

Spring's Back - Garrison Parker (Metis)

Star Struck - Inila - Santee Luke Witt - prod by Terrance Jade (Oglala Lakota)

Took A Chance - Took a chance- NTG WINDWALKER (Lipan Apache)

Wicahpi Olowan Vol. 1- Burden -Isolated South - William Thunderhorse (Oglala Lakota)

BEST AMERICANA RECORDING

Beautiful Broken Pieces - Time Stands Still - Jace Martin (First Nation Ontario)

Beyond The Reservoir - Seeds - Julian Taylor (T'Karonto/Mohawk)

Good People - Good People - Indian City featuring Julian Taylor (Sagkeeng First Nation/T'Karonto (Mohawk)

Inuktitut - Isumagijunnaingittaq (The Unforgiven) - Elisapie (Inuit)

Legend Of Lance -Perfect Pitch - John Shewfelt Jr (Gwich'in Athabaskan)

Native Rose - Native Rose - Jan Michael Looking Wolf (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde/Kalapuya)

Sister Star - Sister Star - Scott Simpson, Sandy Swallow-Morgan (Lakota/Northern Cheyenne)

Spirit Horses - Chief Joseph - Linda Mckenzie  Timo Standing Buffalo Cano (Yaqui/Apache)

The Light In My Bones - We Are Power - Annie Humphrey & John Trudell (Leech Lake Band Ojibwe)

Willow - My Roots - Mimi O'Bonsawin (Odanak First Nation)

BEST BLUES RECORDING

 

A Place In The Sun - Love is a Dream - - Graywolf Blues Band (Yoeme)

A Sweet Memory - A Party At the Crossroads - Always Right There -Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor (Mashpee Wampanoag)

Burning Love - Burning Love - Irv Lyons Jr (Oneida)

DoYou Wanna? - Dancing Along - Trent Agecoutay (Cowessess - Saulteaux)

Guitar Man - Guitar Man - Lovers Annonymous - Gary Small (Northern Cheyenne)

Native Blues - Gypsy Blue - Cecil Gray (Kiowa)

Oh Great Warrior - Mountain Down Blues - Blue Mountain Tribe (Chiricahua Apache)

Relocation - Cruise the Rez - Tracy Lee Nelson (Luiseno/Kumeyaay)

Six Feet Apart - Miss Your Water - Nadine - Earl Slick & the West Side Social Club (Haudenosaunee)

The Witch Queen of New Orleans The Witch Queen of New Orleans - Quartz feat Pat Vegas & Raven Hernandez (Yaqui/Shoshone/Navajo/Chumash)

BEST COUNTRY RECORDING

Hollywood Hillbilly - Hollywood Hillbilly - Jason Lee Wilson and James County (Cherokee/Chickamauga)

Native Americana - I Belong - Made For Two - Ryan Little Eagle (Lakota, Taino)

Pieces of Honey - Pieces Of Honey- I'd Never Break Your Heart - Billy Simard (Black River)

Rez Chick - Rez Chick - Callie Bennett featuring Keith Secola (Navajo)

Sandbar Sunsets - Sandbar Sunsets - Mickie James (POWHATAN)

Songs of stepping lightly - The Thirsty Cougar - Kori Thornton (Colville)

Sweet Home Oklahoma - Sweet Home Oklahoma - Ava Rose Johnson (Osage/Cherokee)

That’s The Way It Goes - Over For Good - Jim Jacobs (Mohawk)

The Trail Keeps Moving Forward - The Trail Keeps Moving Forward - Stephanie Carter (Muscogee Creek)

Train Wreck Love - Between A Rock And A Hard Place - Brian Moon (MI'GMAQ)

BEST FOLK RECORDING

Awaken Us Oh God - Richelle Darby Garcia (Kiowa)

Beyond The Reservoir - Seeds - Stolen Lands - Julian Taylor (Mohawk)

Hoka - Imma Big Boy - Sacred Ground - December Wind (Mohawk)

Indigenize - St'at'imc feat. Ostwelve - The Spiritual Warriors (Lilwat Nation )

Just To Be - Round and Round - Indigie Femme (Navajo/Dine, Samoan and Maori)

Kiyam - Tough Girl - Phyllis Sinclair (York Factory First Nation)

Omen - Grace Too - Pisuppunga - Twin Flames (Inuit, Mohawk)

Self-Portrait- Wildflower - Asiah Holm (Cree First Nations)

Willow - Here's To The Women - Mimi O'Bonsawin (Odanak First Nation)

Wiping The Tears - Trees and Leaves - Wiping the Tears - Buffalo Weavers (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate)

BEST HIP HOP RECORDING

1222 - Holy Ghost - Joey Stylez & Pete Sands (Cree/Metis)

Bimaadiziwin - I'm Livin Life -Warrior Spirit featuring Itz Lil Lee and Keith Secola (Bois Forte Band of Chippewa)

Can’t Kill Me - Cant Kill Me-- LadySinncere (Squamish) ASLAM-ChristyLee-GPS

Console Us - Console Us prod. by Keiji) - Ekichetu (Oglala)

Decolonial Love Songs - Trippen - Waštewana - Jah’kota (Nakota)

For Your Soul - Better Days - Native Hustle Vision , Dawson Dayne (Oglala Lakota)

Grandma’s Boy - LNW - The Only Thing - Sequoia Crosswhite (Oceti Sakowin)

Home Runs (Prod. Adam Banx) - Stella Standingbear (Oglala Lakota)

Natives - Natives (prod. by Bazille) - K-DAWG (Oglala Lakota))

Top Mike Bone Tracks - VIBIN - Lil Mike & Funny Bone ft. Chille Baby (Pawnee)

BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING

Butterfly Moon Butterfly Moon - Michael Charette & Severin Behnen (Ojibwe)

Celestial Desire I Still Shine - Riverside Cake - Keanu Ienco (Havasupai / Metis)

Keepers of the Wisdome-Healing Stories & Guided Meditations Earth Star - Red Feather Woman (Assiniboine/Sioux)

Live From Studio A Metamorphosis The BlackBird 3 (Dakota/Eastern Band Cherokee)

Mandala Orion - Painted Raven (Lakota/Cherokee)

Prairie Dusk For Nikâwiy (deliberate and intentional, our suffering) - Jessica McMann (Cowessess First Nation)

Raven Speaks Raven Speaks - Artificial Red (Mvskoke/Choctaw/Euchee)

VM6P Dramática - Famous Ones (Tohono O’odham)

We Are The Medicine Canyon - Max Cameo Wayne Snellgrove (Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota)

Works for the Bassoon by Native American Composers Nocturne for bassoon and marimba - Jacqueline Wilson (Yakama)

BEST POP RECORDING

1222 Holy Ghost - Joey Stylez & Pete Sands (Cree/Metis)

A Light In The Attic Deadman - Logan Staats (Mohawk)

Delicate Minds Memories - Robin Cisek (Metis Nation of Alberta)

Good People Good People - Indian City featuring Julian Taylor (Sagkeeng First Nation)

Heartbreaker Heartbreaker feat. Terrance Jade x Isolated South (Oglala Lakota)

NWCS - NWCS- LadySinncere (Squamish) featuring A-SLAM-Aaron-Christie-Fara-Amin-

Stranded In The Middle  Past Midnight - Hanna Andrea (Muscogee)

The Light In My Bones - Is It Okay_1679 -Annie Humphrey We Are Power - Annie Humphrey & John Trudell (Ojibwe)

This Is It - Callie Bennett (Navajo Dine’)

Tribal Roots feat Edmund Bull Sweetlips - Tribal Roots (Metis/ Anishinaabe/ Cree)

BEST R&B RECORDING

Amazing Love Amazing Love -Taste The Night Focus & Ramonda (Navajo)

Build/Destroy SHAMAN -Freakshow - The ZYG 808 - ft. Bishop the Shadowman & Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor (Mashpee Wampanoag)

Decolonial Love Songs Trippen - Jah’kota (Ocean Man First Nation)

Don’t Be Mad Don’t Be Mad - Taylor Rain (Produced by Evan Lee) (Crow)

Euphonious A New Love Song - Irv Lyons Jr (Oneida)

Life Dreams ft. Fedarro - G Precious (Ohkay Owingeh)

Stay for Awhile Stay for Awhile - Ray Viktoria (Caddo)

Toxic In Love Toxic In Love - Seylah Moses-Blevins (Colville Confederated Tribes)

Tribal Roots feat Edmund Bull Sweetlips - Tribal Roots (Metis/ Anishinaabe/ Cree)

Wrld Cry Liv Release - Olivia Colegrove Martinez Release - Liv Rion (Quinault)

BEST RAP RECORDING   

Better Be Ready - Better Be Ready feat. Bazille (Cheyenne River) (prod. by Maka Sitomniya x Bazille) - Lakota Skull x Jay DeKay (Sicangu Lakota)

Blessings Stella Standingbear  ft. Destroy Kasmin (Prod. TipTIp & JeanSaintLaurent)

Cuffed - Cuffed feat. Mato Wayuhi - Lakota Kikyo Elizabeth Skye (Oglala/Hunkpapha)

Doc Native - Tear the Walls Down - Doc Native (Seminole)

For The Time Being - Obnoxious -Indo Slim (Mescalero Apache)

Life - Gotta Ride Away ft. Steve Chavez - G Precious (Ohkay Owingeh)

Rolling Stone - Rolling Stone- Blue Flamez ft. Kaos (The Confederated Tribes Of Warm Springs Of Oregon )

The Braid Remains - Nishnawb Hip Hop - - Shibastik (Moose Cree)

Winyans & Mazaska - How We Livin' feat. CrimeSpree, Maniac The Siouxpernatural & Brandis - Night Shield ( Rosebud Sioux)

Zaagi'idiwin (There Tonight is on album) - Snag - Cody Coyote (Ojibwe from Matachewan First Nation)

BEST ROCK RECORDING

A Light In the Attic Deadman -Six Miles Logan Staats (Mohawk)

Blood of the Fathers Blinded by the Hate -Blood of the Fathers You Break Me Damaged Hell Hole - Medicine Mann (Arawak)

Blue Nova Happiness - Sacred Land - SpiritDance Raven Hernandez (Navajo)

Born In The City Born In The City - Butterfly Wings Midnight Sparrows (Metis, Cree, Dene)

Existence Is Resistance The Worlds Alive - Blackbird Feat John Popper 

Indian Route 15 Indian Route 15 -Soul Searcher One Way Sky (Gila River)

Lost Bird Good Condition -Teresa Suydam (Rosea River Band First Nation)

Moments Moments - The Breakwater Band (Alutiiq)

Stories From The Fire The 38 - War Cry Pretendians Band (Standing Rock Sioux)

Whistles At Night Whistles at Night - 1876 - (Blackfeet, Comanche, Northern Cheyenne and Oglala )

BEST TRADITIONAL ROOTS RECORDING

Cowboy and Me Cowboy And Me - Heaven OldCoyote (Northern Arapaho)

Hon Muru Hon Muru - Paah’tuu’wah Qatsi - Clark Tenakhongva, Gary Stroutsos, Matt Moon Nelson (Hopi)

Indigenous InFLUTEnces Just-Roaming-feat.-Phillip-J.-Moore 

Journey Continues Beauty You Showed Me -For D&C -Love Dance - Faran Sohappy (feat. Brotha Soul) (Yakama)

Nocikiwikamikosihk (Where the Elders Dwelt) sâkihitowask (Love Medicine) - WT Goodspirit (Goodfish Lake First Nation)

Omen Pisuppunga (Single) - Twin Flames (Inuit/Mohawk Kahnawà:ke)

Sing. Pray. Love. Hear Our Prayers - Speak Cree, Love One Another - Joel Wood (Cree)

Usti Usti (Cherokee Lullaby) - Shining Woman 

Wastela Wastela - Tiana Spotted Thunder (Oglala)

Winyan Tapejuta Coyote Wolf Song - Women's Honoring -Pansy Hawk Wing (Oglala Sioux)

World Champion Myanik Xe (Beautiful Music) [Remix] - Paul Steward (Pomo)

NATIVE HEART

Black Wolf Black Wolf - Steven Newton 

Indigenous InFLUTEnces Buffalo-People - Mignon Geli 

Indigenous InFLUTEnces, Vol. 2 Father-Sky- Mignon Geli

Mile After Mile - Mile After Mile -Seekers - Carol Markstrom 

Rise Up On Eagle Wings - Wolfsheart 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Ava Rose Johnson "You Were Just a Dream" Official Video Sweet Home Oklahoma

Callie Bennett Featuring Keith Secola REZ CHICK | Official Music Video | 

City Indians (still in the Garden) --( Ft. Ki Earth Spirit)

December Wind w/ Keith Secola "Imma Big Boy" Don Giovanni

Elisapie - Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass) (Official Music Video)

Hanna Andréa - Past Midnight (Official Music Video)

Indian City - Broken (feat. Goody Grace) Official Music Video

Jace Martin - Honour Song ((First Nation Ontario)

Stella Standingbear - Home Runs (Official Music Video)

Twin Flames - "Who I am" (Official Video)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO ANIMATION & EFFECTS

* - 9a (official music video)

Bazille - "Wana Wacin" feat. Cody Blackbird (prod. by Stoic) Music Video

𝐉i𝐦m𝐲 𝐋e𝐞 𝐘o𝐮n𝐠 - 𝐓H𝐄 𝐒H𝐄 𝐖O𝐋F [𝙾𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚅𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘] 𝟸0𝟸𝟺

Joe Lind  I'm a Smidge Crazy 

Joey Stylez & Pete Sands - Holy Ghost *OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO (Directed By: Dark Shawn)

Phyllis Sinclair If I Were a Bird (Unconditional Love Song) 

Robin Cisek - Memories 

Roger Kuhn, Velvet Code - Kaleidoscope (Official Music Video) So Fierce Music

Teresa Suydam Good Condition | Official Lyric Video 

Wolfsheart & Isabella - The Last of the Mohicans 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO NARRATIVE

Blue Mountain Tribe - Sacred Flowers

Brando Price "Simplified" 

Buffalo Weavers/Oyate Hotanin - Us, the Trees & Leaves Oyate Hotanin Us, the Trees & Leaves 

Cody Coyote - There Tonight  

Dawson Dayne - Better Days Directed by: Native Hustle 

Logan Staats - Deadman 

Mimi O'Bonsawin - Here's To The Women 

Paula Kavanagh - Medicine Mann - Blood of the Fathers

Seminole Prince - Last Of A Dying Breed  

Shibastik - The Braid Remains Shibastik - The Braid Remains

We Are The Medicine - Max Cameo

BEST LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO 

Artificial Red: Live At THe Heard Museum

Dr. T - Blues Criminals - Standing here all alone

G Precious - Angels on Your Pillow

Gary Small & the Coyote' Bros Wyoming IBC Champions 

Jan Michael Looking Wolf and Native Rose - "Love! Hope! Peace!" LIVE at the PRAx

Paul Steward & Band at Magazzino Gilgamesh,  15th Gilgamesh Blues Festival  

Rickey Medlocke Never Run Out of Road - 

The Blackbird Three "Metamorphosis" Live from Studio A 

The Spiritual Warriors st’at’imc song video 720p

War Bonnet - Bigfoot - Official Music Video

The Native American Music Awards was originally formed in 1998, first as a grassroots organization which quickly grew into a national organization committed to traditional and contemporary Native American music. Nominations for the Annual Native American Music Awards (NAMA) reflect the highest quality of recordings by music makers throughout North America and were selected by the combined votes of a national Advisory Board Membership Committee   General Public Voting is now open at: www.NAMALIVE.com