You find songs performed or recorded by Indigenous artists plus some songs about Native issues and concerns by non-Indigenous artists by going to the Song Search page and choosing Native/Indigenous option under Culture.
Here are some notable songs in Rise Again:
- One Drum (featured above) by Leela Gilday
- Welcome, Welcome, Emigrante by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Swimming to the Other Side by Pat Humphries
- Pretty Brown by David Campbell
- Walk Proud My Son by Don Grooms
- Sacred Ground by (non-Indigenous artist) Heidi Miller — the 2nd verse is about Chief Joseph & the Nez Perce triibe
Here are notable songs in Rise Up Singing:
- Now That the Buffalo's Gone and The Piney Wood Hills by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Seneca Canoe Song (Kayowajiineh) which Pete Seeger learned from the singing of Ray Fadden, teacher, Iroquois Indian historian, authority and museum keeper at the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation
- Geronimo's Cadillac by (non-Indigenous artists) Michael Murphey & Charles Quarto
Other songs in The Music Box:
- My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- All Nations Rise by Lyla June (see her video made during the Standing Rock protest actions & encampment against the Dakota Access Pipeline)
- Wolves Don't Live by the Rules by Inuit artist Willie Thrasher
- Song for Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women by Antone George of the Lummi Nation
- Sawaenemiyah by Wade Fernandez of the Menominee Tribe
- Stolen Land is by (non-Indigenous Canadian singer songwriter) Bruce Cockburn
Here are other Indigenoous artists featured in the Music Box:
Floyd Westerman (1936-2007) was a Dakota singer songwriter & political activist and one of the most important Native American artist of the 20th century
- Custer Died for Your Sins
- Where Were You When?
- Missionaries
- Drums (by Peter LaFarge)
Bill Miller is an outstanding Mohican singer songwriter
- Tumbleweed
- Reservation Road
- Praises
- Look Again to the Wind (by Peter LaFarge)
Joanne Shenadoah (1957-2021) was a renowned singer songwriter in the Oneida tribe
Raye Zaragoza is a singer songwriter with Mexican, Japanese, and Indigenous ancestry
- Red Moon, High Tide and Mother, We'll Meet Again are songs on the "Gather" documentary film about Native food sovereignty
- Hold that Spirit Close
- Bring that River Home
- Fight Like a Girl (on the struggle for women's rights)
Peter LaFarge was not himself Native but he developed a deep respect for and interest in Native American history, culture, and suffering from his Pullitzer-prise winning anthropologist father and recorded many songs on Indigenous issues, a number of which were also recorded by Johnny Cash on his "Bitter Tears" album highlighting Indigenous issues and experience. Perhaps his best-known songs are:
- The Ballad of Ira Hayes (about an Indigenous Marine who was part of the flag-raising photograph on Iwo Jima during World War II)
- As Long as the Grass Shall Grow





