Native American Music Awards - 2008 10th Annual Awards

2008 10th Annual Awards

The following awards were presented at the 10th Annual Native American Music Awards ceremony:

Artist of the Year: Jim Boyd

Best Blues Recording: Deep Downtown by Jimmy Wolf

Best Compilation Recording: Old Style Round Dance Songs

Best Country Recording: No Lies by Tracy Bone

Debut Artist of the Year: Cheryl Bear

Debut Group of the Year: Injunuity

Best Female Artist: Nicole

Best Folk Recording: Where the Green Grass Grows by The Crow Girls

Flutist of the Year: Jan Michael Looking Wolf

Best Gospel/Inspirational Recording: Precious Memories by The Cherokee National Youth Choir

Group of the Year: Native Roots

Best Historical Recording: Chief Seattle Speaks 1854 by Red Hawk

Best Instrumental Recording: Mirror Lake by Golaná

Best Male Artist: Edmund Bull

Best Native American Church Recording: New Beginning by Janelle Turtle

Best New Age Recording: Homeland Security by Carroll Medicine Crow

Best Pop Recording: Phoenix by Fara Palmer

Best Pow Wow Recording: Hear the Beat by the Blackfoot Confederacy

Best Producer: Adrian Brown, Tim Sampson, Jonathon Joss, Charles Button

Best Rap/Hip Hop Recording: Native American Hustle by Dago Braves

Record of the Year: (Silence) is a Weapon by Blackfire

Song/Single of the Year: Broken Dreams by Nightshield

Songwriter of the Year: Star Nayea

Best Spoken Word Recording: The Storytellers by Ken Quiet Hawk

Best Traditional Recording: Traditional Navajo Shoe Songs by Gilbert Begay Sr

Best Short Form Music Video: "The Enlightened Time" by Jana

Best Long Form Video: Live at Mt. Rushmore: Concert for Reconciliations of Cultures by Brulé and AIRO

Best World Music Recording: Celebrate by Native Roots

Native Heart: Ed Stasium, producer for (Silence) is a Weapon