Native American Music Awards 2014 Winners

The 15th Annual Native American Music Awards were held November 14th at the Seneca Allegany Events Center. Here is the complete list of this year's winners.

The Native American Music Awards celebrate an incredible diversity of Indigenous artists in over 30 categories of music, spoken word and historical recordings.

This year's winners included Mato Nanji (of the group Indigenous) for Artist of the Year, A Tribe Called Red, who took home Best Music Video for the song "Sisters" featuring Northern Voice, The Ollivanders who won Best Rock Recording, Bear Fox for Songwriter of the Year, Sihasin for Debut Group of Year, Leah Shenandoah for Debut Artist of the Year, and many others. Check the complete list of winners below.

Native American Music Awards 2014 Winners 

Artist of the Year: Mato Nanji, Vanishing Americans

Best Blues Recording: Vanishing Americans, Indigenous

Best Compilation Recording: Don’t Let Me Forget, Kelly Montijo Fink

Best Country Recording: Woman Of Red, Tracy Bone

Debut Artist of the Year: Leah Shenandoah, Spektra

Debut Group of the Year: Sihasin, Never Surrender

Best Female Artist: Rita Coolidge, A Rita Coolidge Christmas

Best Folk Recording: Keeper of the Dreams, Red Feather Woman

Flutist of the Year: Rona Yellow Robe, The Gathering

Best Inspirational Recording: Grace & Grit: Chapter I, Dark Water Rising

Group of the Year: Plenty Wolf Singers, Medicine Wolf

Best Historical/Linguistic Recording: Heart of the Buffalo, Richard Stepp & Rick McKee

Best Instrumental Recording: The Long Journey Home, Ryan Little Eagle Molina

Best Male Artist: Jimmy Wolf, A Tribute To Little Johnny Taylor

Best Native American Church Recording: Apache Peyote Songs, Joe Tohonnie Jr

Best New Age Recording: Bridge, Rushingwind & Mucklow

Best Pop Recording: Day After Day, Jamie Coon

Best Pow Wow Recording: Stoic, Tha Tribe

Best Producer: Kevin Chief, Honoring The Mazinikijik Singers

Best Rap Hip Hop Recording: One Tribe One Nation, The Council

Record of the Year: Romanze Songs of Tosti, Lawrence Harris

Best Rock Recording: Two Sons, The Ollivanders

Song of the Year: Witchi Tai-To – Water Spirits, Shadowyze, Caren Knight Pepper and Jim Pepper

Songwriter of the Year: Theresa "Bear" Fox, Diamond

Best Spoken Word Recording: Grandfather Speaks, Ken Quiet Hawk

Best Traditional Recording: Spirit of Thunderheart, Rising

Best Music Video: Sisters ft Northern Voice, A Tribe Called Red

Best Waila Recording: In Loving Memory of Our Beloved Father & Uncle, Family Pride

Best World Music Recording: Nature Dance, Joanne Shenandoah

Native Heart: Lex Nichols, The Long Road

Lifetime Achievement: Jim Boyd

Rising Star: Gareth Laffely

For more information visit: nativeamericanmusicawards.com

BEST MUSIC VIDEO WINNER: A Tribe Called Red's "Sisters (ft. Northern Voice)"

2011 NAMMY Award Winners: Native American Music Award Winners Announced

The 2011 Native American Music Awards were held October 7, 2011 in Niagara Falls, New York. The event brought together the biggest names in Indigenous music to celebrate the fantastic diversity of music being made in Indian Country.

Here is a complete list of the 2011 NAMMY award winners:

2011 NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD WINNERS

ARTIST OF THE YEAR Gabriel Ayala - "Passion Fire & Grace"

BEST BLUES RECORDING "Indian Rock ‘n Roll" - Marc Brown & The Blues Crew

BEST COMPILATION RECORDING The Color of Hope - Various Artists

BEST COUNTRY RECORDING "Native Heart" - C.C. Murdock

DEBUT ARTIST OF THE YEAR Bear Fox - "Rich Girl"

DEBUT GROUP OF THE YEAR October Soul - "Don’t Turn Back"

BEST FEMALE ARTIST Becky Thomas - "Sacred Ground"

BEST FOLK RECORDING "The Long Way Home" - Don Amero

FLUTIST OF THE YEAR Cody Blackbird - "The Journey"

BEST GOSPEL INSPIRATIONAL RECORDING "My Jesus I Love Thee" - Yvonne St. Germaine

GROUP OF THE YEAR Pipestone - "As The Rez Turns"

BEST HISTORICAL RECORDING "Native Anthropology Challenge, Choice and Promise in the 21st Century" - Jack Gladstone

BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING "Songs For Turtle Island"- Vince Fontaine

BEST LATIN AMERICAN RECORDING "Indians Colour" - Luis Capcha Vilchez

BEST MALE ARTIST Gary Small Wyoming (For Dummies)

BEST NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH RECORDING "Love Songs of the Native American Church"- Kevin Yazzie

BEST NEW AGE RECORDING "Hymns" - Golana

BEST POP RECORDING "Hear Our Prayer" - Dylan Jenet Collins

BEST POW WOW RECORDING "Black Thunder" - Black Thunder Singers

BEST PRODUCER Stephen Butler - "Handprints of Our People"

BEST RAP/HIP HOP RECORDING "Scars and Bars" - Nake Nula Waun

RECORD OF THE YEAR "Full Circle" - Shelley Morningsong

BEST ROCK RECORDING "Tribal Thunder" - The Blessed Blend

SONG/SINGLE OF THE YEAR "Out of Many We Are One" - Joseph FireCrow, Thomasina Levy & Others

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR Josh Halverson - "These Times"

BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDING "My Life Is My Sun Dance" - Harvey Arden and Leonard Peltier

BEST TRADITONAL RECORDING "The Gift of Life" - Randy Wood

BEST MUSIC VIDEO "Live As One" - Jan Michael Looking Wolf / Various Artists

BEST LONG FORM VIDEO "Journey To Soul Blessings" - Tony Redhouse

BEST WAILA RECORDING "Timeless" - Native Thunder

BEST WORLD MUSIC RECORDING "Kayas" - Rhonda Head

NATIVE HEART Bernhard Wolfsheart Weilguni - "Call of the Canyons"

HALL OF FAME Keith Secola

HALL OF FAME Nokie Edwards

Jim Thorpe Sports Award: Ted Nolan

Check out RPM's additional coverage of this year's events: Gabriel Ayala Wins Artist of the Year at the 2011 Native American Music Awards.

For more on this year's events and awards visit the NAMMYS website: 2011 Native American Awards and we offer our congratulations to all of this year's winners!

Gabriel Ayala Wins Artist of the Year at the 2011 Native American Music Awards

Yaqui classical guitarist Gabriel Ayala was honoured at the 2011 Native American Music Awards as Artist of the Year. Ceremonies were held at the Seneca Casino in Niagara Falls, New York on October 7th, 2011.

The "Nammys" boasts over 20 different award categories in numerous genres, as well as the Jim Thorpe Sports Award that was received this year by Ted Nolan, a well known Ojibway NHL hockey player and coach, who was also master of ceremonies for this year's event.

Legendary blues-rock guitarist Keith Secola, best known for his tune NDN Car,  was inducted into the Native Music Hall of Fame this year along side Nokie Edwards, a renowned Cherokee guitarist out of Lahoma, Oklahoma. Other winners include Don Amero and his album The Long Way Home for Best Folk Recording, Scars and Bars by Nake Nula Waun for Best Rap/Hiphop Recording and Vince Fontaine for his album Songs For Turtle Island, taking home the Best Instrumental Recording award.

Gabriel Ayala out of Tuscon, Arizona, is an accomplished classical guitar player that has been touring extensively in the last year throughout Canada, the United States and South America. His newest release, Passion, Fire & Grace was his submission into the 2011 Nammys that awarded him the coveted title of Artist Of The Year. Past recipients of this award include Litefoot, John Trudell, Keith Secola and Joanne Shenandoah, to name a few.

For a complete list of this year's winners of the Native American Music Awards as well as press releases, biographies and music streams, check out our post 2011 NAMMY Award Winners: Native American Music Award Winners Announced.

Here's a video from Artist of the Year, Gabriel Ayala's of his performance at this year's NAMA event.

2011 NAMMY Nominees Announced

The Native American Music Awards have just announced the nominees for their 32 music categories.

The NAMMYS are the largest Indigenous Awards event to take place in the world. This year was the first time they opened up the nomination process to public voting and the first round saw a remarkable 200+ submissions.

The list is now narrowed down and voting is open to the public again. There's many great new discoveries to be made listenting to all the nominees! Listen and vote at: nativeamericanmusicawards.com.

Winners will be announced at the 2011 Native Amercian Music Awards on October 7th at the Seneca Niagra Hotel in Niagra Falls, NY.

ARTIST OF THE YEAR NOMINEES: Bobby Bullet (Lac Du Flambeau) – Bigfoot Gabriel Ayala (Yaqui)– Passion Fire & Grace JJ Kent (Oglala Sioux) – Prairie Meditation Joy Harjo (Muskoke) – Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears Vince Redhouse (Navajo)– Hozhooji’ – The Beauty and Blessing Within Us Yvonne St. Germaine (Cree) – My Jesus I Love Thee

DEBUT ARTIST NOMINEES: Bear Fox (Mohawk) – Rich Girl Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole) – The Storm Don Amero (Metis) – The Long Way Home Dylan Jenet Collins (Montaukett) - Hear Our Prayer Josh Halverson (Mdewakanton Sioux) – These Timesm Uno (Cherokee) - A Strange Revolt

BEST BLUES RECORDING NOMINEES: Joel Johnson (Tuscarora) - Blues Joose Vol 1 Marc Brown & The Blues Crew (Huslia) - Indian Rock ‘n Roll Mike Hammar and The Nails (Muscogee Creek) - Recipe for the Blues Cornbred (Onondaga) - Rez-Bomb Table Top Three (Onondaga) - Table Top Three Graywolf Blues Band (Yaqui, Seminole, Choctaw, Cherokee, Muskogee) - Thin Line

BEST MUSIC VIDEO NOMINEES: Shy-Anne Hovorka (Metis) - Can’t Change The World Wind Spirit Drum - Grandfather  Jan Michael Looking Wolf & Various Artists - Karla La Rive, Chris Crosby, Live As One  Pick Up Truck - Shane Yellowbird (Cree) Stoned For Days - Derek Miller (Mohawk/Ojibway) XI Pow Wow Songs Recorded Live @ San Manuel - Bear Creek (Ojibwe)

BEST RAP HIP HOP RECORDING NOMINEES: * Three way tie for last nominee slot Uno (Cherokee) - A Strange Revolt Lady Xplicit (Navajo) - Cali Girl Rezhogs (Yakama) - Lowlife  Evan Lee Cummins (Crow) - Passionate Love Nake Nula Waun (Rosebud Sioux) - Scars and Bars Buggin Malone (Oneida) - The Rapture  Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole) - The Storm

For a complete list of nominees, visit nativeamericanmusicawards.com.

DOWNLOAD: Joy Harjo - "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

Joy Harjo's (Muskoke) Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears is one of the runners in both Best Artist and the World Music Category at this year's Native American Music Awards (Nammy's) and a recent Indian Summer Music Awards winner. Harjo is a saxophone player and award winning poet and writer. Combining the two, Harjo accompanies her poetry with musical elements of tribal music, jazz and rock. Enjoy. DOWNLOAD: Joy Harjo - "Perhaps the World Ends Here"