Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Joe Shunatona and the United States Indian Reservation Orchestra John W. Troutman 2 American Indian Jazz: Mildred Bailey and the Origins of America's Most Musical Art Form Chad Hamill 3 Jazz and the Politics of Identity: The Spirit of Jim Pepper Bill Siegel 4 Singing for the People: The Protest Music of Buffy Sainte-Marie and Floyd Westerman Kimberli Lee 5 Brothers of the Blade: Three Native Axmen: Link Wray, Robbie Robertson, and Jesse Ed Davis Scott Prinzing 6 "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee": The Engaged Resistance of Folk and Rock in the Red Power Era Jan Johnson 7 "We'll Get There with Music": Sonic Literacies, Rhetorics of Alliance, and Decolonial Healing in Joy Harjo's Winding Through the Milky Way Gabriela Raquel Rios 8 Hearing the Heartbeat: Environmental Cultural Values in the Lyrics of Native Songwriters Samantha Hasek and April E. Lindala 9 "The Story of a Lifetime": Singing, Crossing, and Claiming in Lila Downs's "Minimum Wage" Casie C. Cobos 10 Babylon Inna Hopiland: Articulations of Tradition and Social Injustice by the Hopi Reggae Musician Casper Loma-da-wa Lomayesva David S. Walsh 11 Blackfire's Land-Based Ethics: The Benally Family and the Protection of Shi Kéyah Hozhoni Jeff Berglund 12 A Reading of Eekwol's Apprentice to the Mystery as an Expression of Cree Youth's Cultural Role and Responsibility Gail A. Mackay 13 "By the Time I Get to Arizona": Hip Hop Responses to Arizona SB 1070 Marcos Del Hierro Contributors Index.