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2010 NAMMY WINNERS: Native American Music Awards

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Winners for the 2010 Native American Music Awards. Here is a list of all the 2010 NAMA nominees.

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Joseph FireCrow

Face The Music

BEST BLUES RECORDING

If That’s All Right With You

Twice As Good

BEST COMPILATION RECORDING

Walking With the Spirits

Randy McGinnis

BEST COUNTRY RECORDING

It’s About Time

Shane Yellowbird

DEBUT ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Victoria Blackie

Wanted Man

DEBUT DUO OR GROUP OF THE YEAR

Dark Water Rising

Dark Water Rising

BEST FEMALE ARTIST

Tinesha Begaye

Horses Are Our Journey

BEST FOLK RECORDING

Believe

Michael Bucher

FLUTIST OF THE YEAR

Joseph FireCrow

Face The Music

BEST GOSPEL/INSPIRATIONAL RECORDING

Sacred Fire

Sayani

GROUP OF THE YEAR

Bluedog

Get Up & Get Out

BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING

Hitchin’ A Ride

Nokie Edwards

BEST MALE ARTIST

Jay Begaye

Horses Are Our Journey

BEST NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH RECORDING

Dakota Lakota Traditional Church Songs

Sacred Harmonies

BEST NEW AGE RECORDING

Sheila Applegate & Joanne Shenandoah

Enchanted Garden

BEST POP RECORDING

We Are

Digging Roots

BEST POW WOW RECORDING

Boys Will Be Boyz

The Boyz

BEST PRODUCER

Frank Waln

Always Ready

BEST RAP / HIP HOP RECORDING

Tribal Tribulations

Chase Monchamp/Chase Manhattan

RECORD OF THE YEAR

Breakin’ Free

Jan Michael Looking Wolf Band

BEST ROCK RECORDING

Segweh

Segweh

SONG/SINGLE OF THE YEAR

“Grandfather”

Windwalker/Wind Spirit Drum

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

Brad Clonch & Jeff Carpenter

Fight For Survival

BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDING

Stories From The Social Fire

The Story Tellers

BEST TRADITIONAL RECORDING

Rebuilding The Fire

Bo Taylor

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Sacred Warrior

Tom Bee

BEST WAILA RECORDING

Native Thunder

Get’n Down

BEST WORLD MUSIC RECORDING

Remembrance

Gabriel Ayala

NATIVE HEART

Big City Indians

Tribal Vision

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
jodi@imfreedomalliance.org https://twitter.com/JodiRave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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