Effective period / Period of releases: 1973 - 2003

Members: Arapaho, Flathead, Cheyenne (4), Chilkat, Iroquois, Navajo (4), Acoma, Yaqui, Inuit, Hopi (2), Cree (2), Cherokee (7), Nlaka'pamux, Choctaw, Sioux (3), Kutchin, Fox (31), Ute (5), Zuni (4), Onondaga, Seminole, Assiniboine, Cayuga, Ojibwa, Pawnee, Apache (19), Tuscarora, Papago, Tinne, Kiowa (2), Crow (15), Ponca, Paiute, Arikara, Tewa, Omaha (4), Shawnee (5), Ottawa (2), Hualapai, Washoe, Taos (3), Kwakwaka'wakw, Abenaki, Micmac, Yuman (2), Makah (2), Menominee, Comanche (4), Western Apache, Creek, Siksika, Yurok, Tolowa, Yuchi, Native Americans Of The Plains, Seneca (8), Nez Percé, Pima, Penobscot, Picuris, Tiwa, Lenape, Santa Ana (2), Oneida (3), Mohawk (6), Plains Apache, Wakinyan Oyate, Miwok (2)

This artist does not refer to a specific group of named individuals (such as a band or musical group) but rather defines the collective term for culturally related groups of Native Americans in the United States.

This should only be used when given a specific performer credit.

Without any information related to one particular group or for several unidentified groups recorded in the same area, the following subsets can be created based on the linguistic classification of Alfred Kroeber:
# Native Americans of the Arctic
# Native Americans of the Great Basin
# Native Americans of the eastern woodlands
# Native Americans of the Subarctic
# Native Americans of the Southwest
# Native Americans of the Southeast
# Native Americans of the Plateau
# Native Americans of the Plains
# Native Americans of the Northwest Coast

Please use this "artist" name (or any language variation thereof, via an ANV) for Native Americans, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerinds, Aboriginal, American Indigenous, Original Americans, First Americans, Red Indians, Red Men but only when specifically credited as a writer, composer or performer. It should not be used as an artist when only mentioned in a release title..