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MUSIC:
Native American school band rocks the oldies–and the ancients

Standing Rock High School visits the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in NY to perform an ancient Lakota warrior song, “The Land You Fear”

Courtesy of Kim Cournoyer
North Dakota’s Standing Rock High School Band, which will perform at the National Museum of the American Indian in June, doesn’t march. Instead, as band director Kim Cournoyer likes to say, it floats on the back of a flatbed truck.

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Courtesy of Kim Cournoyer
Kim Cournoyer, trumpet in hand, directs the band as it prepares for its June tour, including performances of a Lakota warrior’s prayer that Cournoyer transcribed and arranged from the oral tradition.

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