Native American Picked Topic Journal Entry

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Biography of Carlos Nakai
Talks about how he used other genres of music and combined it with the traditional native american style with a flute to expose native american style of music.

http://rcarlosnakai.com/
Official website of Carlos Nakai
Glorifies Carlos Nakai as the most succesful native american musician ever telling us his many acheivments and how he has changed native american music.

Carlos Nakai was perhaps one of the most influential Native American musicians, composers, and artists of all time. Carlos Nakai is recognized as the worlds preeminent Native Amerian flutists. In more than 30 best selling records, he has combined many modern forms of music with traditional idioms to create a unique genre to expose Native American music and artists. Carlos Nakai who first started out playing trumpet in high school, was greatly inspired but one of the greatest native american artists named R. C. Gorman to pursue his dream of becoming a musician. After High School Nakai went to the U.S Marine Corps to play trumpet but was rejected because he only weighed a measly 97 pounds. After coming home and attending college at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Nakai became very interested in traditional flute playing. So much in that he made his decision that he would pursue a career as a flutist. He ended up selling more than 4.3 million albums and reaching platinum on his album called "Canyon Trilogy". Nakai has incorporated many genres of music into his works such as new age, world beat jazz, and classical. Overall, Carlos Nakai has been one of the most influential native american musicians and artists whos story should inspire other people that anything is possible.


http://rcarlosnakai.com/


http://rcarlosnakai.com/

Native American US History Classwork

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In this activity that we are doing in class, we are first looking up online the definition of the words "savage" and "savagery". According to dictionary.com, the definition of "savage" is to be fierce, ferocious, cruel, uncivilized, and barbarious. The definition of "savagery" is an uncivilized barbaric state or condition. Then we were to read pages 18-21 of an online history textbook passage from 1887 and look for how the author of the textbook described the native americans and the ways in which they lived there lives.

If I were an American student reading this text as part of schoolwork my view on Native Americans would be greatly affected. In this textbook the author most of the time does not even refer to native americans as native americans, just plainly as savages. If I knew the defintion of savage, which means cruel, uncivilized and barbaric, that is how I would see them. I would most likely not view them as people but as there own animal. When the author is describing the way they fight war, he is describing them as barbaric warriors who take no mercy. " The ones who could show the greatest number of scalps torn from his foes was considered the greatest warrior... Sometimes, when they took a prisoner, they would burn him at the stake by a slow fire, and torture him horribly in every way." The way the author is depecting the native americans, is exactly the definition of savage, cruel, barbaric, and uncivilized. My views about native american would have greatly deviated from before and after I read this text book. Ultimatley, I would think to myself "How are these barbaric things human beings?" based on the description given by the author. I would be terrified to ever see or meet one and I could not imagine living in the close proximity of a native american tribe.