The Sioux are a diverse group of Native Americans generally divided into three subgroups: Lakota, Dakota and Nakota. There are hundreds of tribes of Native Americans (called the First Nations in Canada), each with diverse musical practices, spread across the United States and Canada (excluding Hawaiian music). ... Chicken scratch (waila music) is a kind of dance music developed by the Tohono Oodham people. ... This article deals with the Native American spiritual movement Ghost Dance. ... Native American hip hop is popular among natives in the United States and the First Nations of Canada. ... Peyote songs are a form of Native American music, performed as part of the Native American Church. ... The Arapaho are a tribe of Native Americans from the western Great Plains, in the area of eastern Colorado and Wyoming. ... Blackfoot music (best translated in the Blackfoot language as nitsínixki - I sing, from nínixksini - song) is primarily a vocal kind of music, using few instruments (called ninixkiátsis, derived from the word for song and associated primarily with European-American instruments), only percussion and voice, and few words. ... The Dene live in northern Canada. ... The Innu are among the First Nations of Canada. ... The Inuit live across the northern sections of Canada, especially in Yukon, Nunavat and Northwest Territories, as well as in Alaska and Greenland. ... The Iroquois are a Native American tribe. ... The Kiowa are a Native American tribe. ... Navajo music is the music of the Navajo people and nation, currently in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. ... Pueblo music includes the music of the Hopi, Zuni, Taos Pueblo, San Ildefonso, Santo Domingo, and many other peoples, and according to Bruno Nettl features one of the most complex Native American musical styles on the continent. ... Alternative meaning: Lakota, Côte dIvoire is a département of Côte dIvoire. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... The Lakota (friends or allies, sometimes also spelled Lakhota) are a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux (see Names). ... Dakota is either the related tribes in Minnesota known as Dakota Oyate (Nation), or Santees, and means allies, including the Prairie Island (Mdewakanton and Wahpekute) Indian Community, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community, the Lower Sioux Mdewakanton Indian Community, and the Upper Sioux Dakota Indian Community; or the meta-tribe...

Among the Dakota, traditional songs generally begin in a high pitch, led by a single vocalist (solo) who sings a phrase that is then repeated by a group. This phrase then cascades to a lower pitch until there is a brief pause. Then, the song's second half, which echoes the first, is sung (incomplete repetition). The second part of the song often includes "honor beats", usually in the form of four beats representing cannon fire in battle. The entire song may be repeated several times, at the discretion of the lead singer. A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... In music, pitch is the perception of the frequency of a note. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... The term solo has different meanings in different contexts. ... In music a phrase is a section of music that is relatively self contained and coherent over a medium time scale. ... Incomplete repetition is a musical form featuring two large sections, the second being a partial or incomplete re-presentation or repetition of the first. ...

Many songs use only vocables, syllabic utterances with no lexical meaning. Sometimes, only the second half of the song has any lyrics. A vocable is a word used without meaning. ... This article discusses the unit of speech. ... A lexicon is a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i. ... Lyrics are the written words in a song. ...

In some traditional songs, women sing one octave above the men, though they do not sing the first time the song is sung or the lead line at any time. In music, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve or 8va) is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double the frequency. ...

Percussion among the Dakota use drums, sometimes with syncopation. In competition songs, beats start off irregular and are then followed by a swift regular beat. Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... In music, syncopation is the stressing of a normally unstressed beat in a bar or the failure to sound a tone on an accented beat. ...

The Dakota Flag Song begins special events, such as powwows, and is not accompanied by a dance. Other kinds of songs honor veterans, warriors or others, or are sacred in origin, such as inipi songs. The National Banner Song (國旗歌; gúoqí gē) of the Republic of China is played during the raising and lowering of the Flag of the Republic of China. ... This article is about a Native American gathering. ... A veteran refers to a person who is experienced in a particular area, particularly referring to people in the armed forces. ...