The Cozad Singers are a
Kiowa
Kiowa () people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries,Pritzker 326 and e ...
drum group from
Anadarko, Oklahoma
Anadarko is a city in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. The city is fifty miles southwest of Oklahoma City. The population was 5,745 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Caddo County.
History
Anadarko got its name when its post of ...
. The group was founded by
Leonard Cozad, Sr. in the 1930s, and consists of Leonard, his sons, grandsons, and other members of the family. Cozad, as they are commonly known, are southern style
pow-wow
A powwow (also pow wow or pow-wow) is a gathering with dances held by many Native American and First Nations communities. Powwows today allow Indigenous people to socialize, dance, sing, and honor their cultures. Powwows may be private or pu ...
and
gourd
Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly ''Cucurbita'' and '' Lagenaria''. The term refers to a number of species and subspecies, many with hard shells, and some without. One of the ear ...
drum, and have released several albums. They performed on the 2001
Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album winning ''Gathering of Nations Pow Wow'' album, along with 15 other drum groups. Their most recent album, ''California Pow Wow'', was released by
SOAR Records in June,
2004, and won the 2005
Native American Music Award for Best Historical Recording.
Cozad won the 1994, 1995, 2000, 2003 & 2010 ''Southern Challenge'' drum championship at the
Gathering of Nations pow-wow in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. They are often the host southern drum at large powwows, including the 1996
Stanford University Powwow and the inaugural
National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum in the United States devoted to the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution group of museums and research centers.
The museum has three ...
pow-wow in
Washington, D.C.
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in 2002.
Their songs are available on Pow Wow Radio.
Pow Wow Radio
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See also
* Kiowa music
*Native American music
Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the
music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous peoples of North America, including Native Americans in the United States and Abori ...
* Powwow
Notes
References
''Insight'' magazine article on the 2002 Washington, D.C. powwow
Links
facebook page for the Cozad SingersCozad Singers on YouTube
Musical groups from Oklahoma
Native American musical groups
Kiowa
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