INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY – Athena Cloud, for more than a decade, has been teaching young girls and women on backup singing, or women’s Zhaabowe, which means she or he sings an accompaniment of women. The Red Lake Nation citizen estimates she has taught about 50 women through different cultural camps in communities and schools. “It’s all about exposing the youth and community to different cultural customs and traditional ways of life that not everyone has access to if we were at home, at a reservation, for example,” she said. Backup singers usually stand behind sitting drum singers during a powwow. Male singers are often the main group of singers.
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