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Peyote songs are a form of Native American music, performed as part of the Native American Church. They are typically accompanied by a rattle and water drum, and are used in a ceremonial aspect during the sacramental taking of peyote.

Native American/First Nation music
Music of the United States	Music of Canada
Pan-tribal genres
Chicken scratch	Peyote song
Native American flute	Ghost Dance
Powwow	Hip hop
Tribal sounds
Blackfoot	Apache
Kiowa	Sioux
Inuit	Cree
Seminole	Tohono O'odham
Omaha	Navajo
Hopi	Pueblo
Algonquin	Ute
Cherokee	Tlingit
Salish	Athabaskan
Aleut	Yupik
Iroquois	Zuni

In recent years, a modernized version of peyote songs have been popularized by Verdell Primeaux, a Sioux, and Johnny Mike, a Navajo.

Categories: American Indian music

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Peyote song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (175 words)
	Peyote songs are a form of Native American music, now most often performed as part of the Native American Church.
	Peyote songs share characteristics of Apache music (Southern Athabascan) and Plains-Pueblo music, having been promoted among the Plains by the Apache people.
	Vocal style, melodic contour, and rhythm in Peyote songs is closer to Apache than Plains, featuring only two durational values, predominating thirds and fifths of Apache music with the tile-type melodic contour, incomplete repetitions, and isorhythmic tendencies of Plains-Pueblo music.

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