Every Grammys Best Native American Music Album winner

11 ceremonies, 2001–2011. 6 different winners.

Best Native American Music Album was first awarded in 2001, so it does not run the full 2000–2025 window.

It was awarded for the last time in 2011.

From 2012 the Grammys awarded Best Regional Roots Music Album instead.

Various Artists ×4Bill Miller ×2Mary Youngblood ×2

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by label; scroll sideways for the full run.

Various Artists'01

Johnny Mike and Verdell Primeaux'02

Mary Youngblood'03

Black Eagle'04

Bill Miller'05

Various Artists'06

Mary Youngblood'07

Johnny Whitehorse'08

Various Artists'09

Bill Miller'10

Various Artists'11

Wins by label

Silver Wave550%
Soar220%
Canyon110%
Cool Springs Music Group110%
Paras110%

1 further win has no label on record and is not counted in the 10 above.

1 of these 11 wins has no label on record, so the bar covers the other 10.

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2001–2011. Excludes 4 nominations credited to Various Artists, which names a compilation rather than an act.

Most nominated, never won

Northern Cree5 noms
Black Lodge Singers4 noms
Black Lodge3 noms
Joanne Shenandoah2 noms
Randy Wood2 noms

Most losses

Northern Cree5L · 0W
Black Lodge Singers4L · 0W
Black Eagle3L · 1W
Black Lodge3L · 0W
Joanne Shenandoah2L · 0W
Randy Wood2L · 0W

The full list

Year	Winner	Label
2011	Various Artists (2010 Gathering of Nations Pow Wow: A Spirit's Dance) beat 3 others Bear Creek (XI) Northern Cree (Temptations: Cree Round Dance Songs) Peter Phippen (Woodnotes Wyld: Historic Flute Sounds from the Dr. Richard W. Payne Collection)	Unknown
2010	Bill Miller (Spirit Wind North) beat 4 others Michael Brant DeMaria (Siyotanka) Northern Cree (True Blue) John Two-Hawks (Wind Songs: Native American Flute Solos) Johnny Whitehorse (Riders of the Healing Road)	Cool Springs Music Group
2009	Various Artists (Come to Me Great Mystery: Native American Healing Songs) beat 4 others Bryan Akipa (Songs from the Black Hills) Black Lodge (Spo'Mo'Kin'Nan) Northern Cree (Red Rock) Kevin Yazzie (Faith)	Silver Wave
2008	Johnny Whitehorse (Totemic Flute Chants) beat 4 others Walter Ahhaitty and Friends (Oklahoma Style) Black Lodge (Watch This Dancer!) Davis Mitchell (The Ballad of Old Times) R. Carlos Nakai, Cliff Sarde, William Eaton, and Randy Wood (Reconnections)	Silver Wave
2007	Mary Youngblood (Dance with the Wind) beat 4 others Black Eagle (Voice of the Drum) Robert "Tree" Cody and Will Clipman (Heart of the Wind) Jana (American Indian Story) Northern Cree and Friends (Long Winter Nights)	Silver Wave
2006	Various Artists (Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth) beat 3 others Black Lodge (More Kids' Pow-Wow Songs) Alex E. Smith and Cheevers Toppah (Intonation: Harmonized Songs from the Southern Plains) Randy Wood (Our Love Will Never Die)	Silver Wave
2005	Bill Miller (Cedar Dream Songs)unverified beat 4 others Black Eagle (Straight Up Northern) Black Lodge Singers (Family Traditions) Joanne Shenandoah (Covenant) Mary Youngblood (Feed the Fire)	Paras
2004	Black Eagle (Flying Free) beat 4 others Tom Bee (Reveal His Glory) Black Lodge Singers (Brotherhood) R. Carlos Nakai (Sanctuary) Northern Cree (Still Rezin)	Soar
2003	Mary Youngblood (Beneath the Raven Moon) beat 4 others Burning Sky (Spirit in the Wind) Redheart (Sacred Season) Vince Redhouse (Faith in the House) Randy Wood (Round Dance the Night Away)	Silver Wave
2002	Johnny Mike and Verdell Primeaux (Bless the People: Harmonized Peyote Songs) beat 5 others Black Eagle (Life Goes On: Hand Drum and Round Dance Songs) Black Lodge Singers (Weasel Tail's Dream: The Tradition Continues) Northern Cree (Rockin' the Rez) Various Northern Drums (Gathering of Nations 2000: Millennium Celebration, Volume 1) Young Bird (Change of Life: Oklahoma Pow-Wow Songs)	Canyon
2001	Various Artists (Gathering of Nations Pow Wow 1999) beat 4 others Black Lodge Singers (Tribute to the Elders) Joseph Fire Crow (Cheyenne Nation) Lakota Thunder (Veterans Songs) Joanne Shenandoah (Peacemaker's Journey)	Soar

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