Yuman music
| Native American/First Nation music | |
|---|---|
| United States and Canada | |
| Pan-tribal genres | |
| Chicken scratch | Ghost Dance |
| Hip hop | Native American flute |
| Peyote song | Powwow |
| Tribal sounds | |
| Arapaho | Blackfoot |
| Dene | Innu |
| Inuit | Iroquois |
| Kiowa | Navajo |
| Omaha | Pueblo (Hopi, Zuni) |
| Sioux (Lakota, Dakota) | Yuman |
The Yuman are a tribe of Native Americans from what is now Southern California. Folk songs in Yuma culture are said to be given to a person while dreaming. Many individuals who are in emotional distress go to a secluded area for a few weeks, there to receive new songs (Herzog, pp. 1-6, cited in Nettl, p. 152).
Source
- Nettl, Bruno (1965). Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents. Prentice-Hall, Inc.
- George Herzog, "Music in the Thinking of the American Indian." Peabody Bulletin, May, 1933