Inc. It was formed to offer the artists of the Oyate series a chance to have their own music albums recorded and distributed. Oyate means the people in Lakota. The company began in 1996 and is dedicated to bringing Native music and an understanding of native music to ears around the world. The following albums are already available from Oyate Records.
All albums are available on cassette only on the order page.
The Seneca are a Northeast Woodlands tribe in New York State. Michele accompanies the music with a water drum and a turtle shell rattle. These songs are ancient and almost beyond memory, even the translations have been lost, but now, they have been captured and preserved here. An album containing a series of scalp songs from the Little Big Horn. Music is sung by Lakota singer and musician, Wilmer Mesteth.