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Show 1 Ho Pkp 11 1974 Ute Buletia PHS Employee Wins BYU Fourth Consecutive Crown At Tourney Safety Award c 7. Clinic, has been selected to receive a Safe Driver Award by the National Safety Council. since 1956, Mrs. Burson was awarded a pin in recognition of her outstanding service accompanied by a letter of congratulations from Dr. Charles S. McCammon, Phoenix Area director of the Indian Health Service. In his letter. Dr. McCammon pointed cut that ' by earning the award Mrs. The Wind River Indians came back to take third place from the Provo Skins after losing to TMF in the semi-finround in the final minute of play. The Skins were defeated Saturday morning by the Chiefs. The balanced scoring attack of Wind River with 5 players in double figures held off the Skins efforts. al - Burson has contributed toward reducing vehicle accidents, lost time injuries and property damages, which take time and funds from direct patient care." .) Tribe Takes The BYU Tribe of Many Feathers again won the Recreation-sponsore- d NIAA tournament by defeating the Ute Chiefs in the Championship game 102-7Led by MVP and leading scorer for average Dale Birdsbill, the TFM overcame an early Chief lead and increased the score as 3 front line regulars of the Chiefs fouled out. Birdsbill poured in 45 points, 28 in the se second half to hold off the Chiefs bid for the championship. For the fourth consecutive year Eva Burson, a clinic aide at the Indian Health A clinic employee USUs Many Eagles took 5th place over the U duties entail Mrs. Bursons to dental clinic the transporting patients as well as to and from Salt Lake hospitals. She was nominated for the award by Clinic Director Charles Wells who presented the pin and letter of recognition last week. 0 Indians (Smileys), in a close as Randy Meleldez burned the nets for 31 points. The Eagles who 1 had lost to the Chiefs on a last second shot, got into' the consolation finals by beating Intermountain on the same type of last second play. The Indians ran away from the Utes to get into final round action. ' game & 84-8- 0 92-9- CONGRATULATING SAFETY AWARD WINNER-- Is Charles Weis, director of the Poblic Health Service at Roosevelt. Mrs. Eva Bursou received citations for her . foorth year of safe driving. Mrs. Burson transports patients and students to the dink as part of her duties at the health fadity. Selected for the team Most were Dale Birdsbill BYU-TMValuable Player, Ron Wopsock, Chiefs, Darrell Brown, Wind River, Chester Yellowman, Provo Skins, Randy Melendez, USU and Conrad Reed, UIT Utes. All teams participating in the Tournament were members of the National Indian Activities Association and all of the Utah Teams will qualify for the Utah State Tournament in Salt Lake City in Early April. The Wind River Indians will be playing the Wyoming state tournament and hope to get into their regional tournament. F. New Indian Sound Rocks U.S., European Concert Circuits You DENVER, call music their Red Power Rock, might and you might call Xit the Indian musical phenomenon of of 1973. s This group of seven intertribal full set has houses rocking on the Southwest reservations, in college centers where Indian students congregate, and in the concert halls of Europe. A recent single release, Reservation of Education, made it big in Europe and is climbing in the U.S. Right now Xit is preparing the release of its third and yet unnamed album, which comes on the heels of two very successful albums among Indian people, Plight of the Red Man and Silent Warrior. Available on both LP recordings and tapes, Xit is a new sound in Indian homes. Xit has become the Indian experience amplified. And around Indian country, Xit has scored a solid hit Apart from listening to their records, Indian audiences have flocked to see them in person and to hear their colorful, throbbing performances on the Jicarilla and Apache Reservations, Taos Pueblo and university campuses. In Europe Xit was also on target. They were telecast live as the only American group participating in 1972 in the 8th annual International Music Festival in Venice, Italy. Their reception was so good they were invited back this year. fascinated with the Europeans-lon- g American Indian, took them to heart at every stop and an Xit song, Plight of the Red Man," sored up the European charts. Their music is the pulsating-an- d surof prisingly gently orchestrated-histo- ry the complex Indian experience of the past century, riddled by pain and survival, boned on the edge of despair, rich with the confidence of pride. Their unique Red Power Rock accompanies other notable rock groups such as Three Dog Night, Grand Funk ami Rare Earth on playing jaunts across the American West, They recently have taken up benefit performances for Indian causes they support. Colo.-(AIP- A)- music-maker- Mes-caler- o THREE DECADES OF MUSIC V But Xit doesn't pop up out of nowhere. e There is a history of Indian of whom stand on some recording artists, three-decad- I Q the shoulders of their elders. Lets start with the 1940's. In the late 1940s and 1950s Indians first began recording forty-Nin- e music, a blending of tribal languages and English utilizing Indian melodies. Indian singlove ballads ers sang classic Forty-Nin- e and newer songs emerging from their experiences in World War IL Best known of this generation of singers was Reg Begay, a Navajo, Philip Whiteman ana Group, and Cheyenne Dave. Their all now collector's items. Peter LaFarge, son of the writer Oliver La Farge, put out a pioneer album on Indian protest songs including The Ballad of Ira Hayes and Radioactive Eskimo. And a Taos singer, A1 Lujan, also made his mark. Indians first entered the pop music scene in a big way in the early 1960's when Patrick Sky, a Creek, began singing and recording folk music. Sky greatly influenced the Cree balladeer Buffy who thoughout the 1960s became the most visible musical voice of the of American Indian. Buffy, a song-sta- r benefit the first magnitude, made appearances for a host of Indian causes and participated in a number of key demonstrations. In the area of rock musk, Jesse Ed Davis, an Oklahoma Comanche, made it big as a guitarist and singer in his own right with the albums Jesse, Keep me Comin, and Ululu. Davis also played with many rock greats and took part in the famous Bangladesh concert to aid the devastated eastern Asians. Jim Pepper, a Creek-Caput out a very popular Forty-album with full, enhanced orchestration of classic Forty-Nin- e songs called "Pepper's Powwow. An Arapahoe girl named Teina made a good album called Touched by the Sun. And Shannon Two Feathers, a Canadian Salteaux who had lived through some Indian hard times behind walls, became a prominent musical presence especially among Indian activists with such songs as Some of My Best Friends Are Indians and Muskrats and Welfare." The 1970s brought new faces and new voices onto the Indian musk scene. Most prominent among them were the craggy and gentle Floyd Westerman, a Sisseton-Siouwhose took the title of his first book by the album from a San-te-Mari- e, Nine x best-sellin- g prominent Sioux intellectual Vine Deloria Died for Your Sins. And a Mescalero Apache, Paul Ortega, recorded Two Worlds employing traditional Inand melodies. The dian on its crest the first carried 1972 year notable Indian rock group. Red bone, whkh issued two releases, Red bone" and Message from a Drum, both top sellers. And then came Xit, itself developing for a long time. Xit was originally formed back in 1966 who at that by Tom Bee of the group. was the time manager Xit was roll and rock a band, Initially formed by four young men who were students at Valley High School in AlbuqMichael Martin (Tigua), uerque-A. Herrera (Santo Domingo), Jomac Leeja Suazo (Taos), and a guitarist named Larry Lebya. When Lebya left the group in 1972 Bee replaced him. Xit also added at that time Obk SKullivan (Creek) on keyboard, Jr., Custer spirit-messag- es (Sioux-Navajo- ), non-Indi- an Duane Yazzie (Navajo) on sion, and Guy Ware oo rhythm guitar. extra (Kiowa-Comanch- percus- e) Matter of Choice I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world; I have destroyed more men than all the wars of the nation; I am more deadly than bullets, and I have wrecked more homes than the mightiest of guns; I am the world's slyest thkf, I steal millions of dollars each year; SCRAMBLED EGG BACKGROUND Tom Bee, who also writes and arranges principally for the group, calls Ms fife a scrambled egg background, knowing and living in the cities and also in Gallup, N.M., Bee is now completing a new book, Without Reservation, due on the press in early 1974, whkh will include Indian thoughts, poetry and statements. He has already written songs for noted blues and rock artists like Chubby Checker, S Robinson and the Miracles, and the mo-ke- y Jackson Five. Xit's recording firm is Motown, the black recording firm whkh brought to the public eye such singers as Diana Ross, The Supremes, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye and The Jackson Five. Xit came to Motown's Rare Earth label when one of Bee's songs was recorded by the Jackson Five. Motown then listened to some Xit tapes and immediately signed them. As Bee said, I always felt that we should he with Motown because of the minority situation involved, and I felt that if any company would understand our position it would be Motown. Our position-X- it makes it dearly and powerfully heard in a new kind of sound. I spare no one, and I find my victims among the rich and poor alike, the young and the old, the strong and the weak; widows and orphans know me; I loom up to such proportions that I cast my shadow over every field of labor, I lurk in unseen places, and do most of my work silently; YOU ARE WARNED AGAINST BUT YOU HEED NOT; ME; I am relentless; I am everywhere-i- n the home, on the street, in the factory, in the office, and on the sea; I bring sickness, degradation and death, and yet few seek to destroy me; I destroy and crash, I give nothing and take all I am your worst enemy. I am MR. ALCOHOL. (Taken from the Utah Alcoholism O |