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Published On: Mon, Feb 25th, 2013

Is Native American Church songs being exploited on Social Media

Once sacred songs, becoming not so sacred anymore.

Almost every weekend you will see or hear about Native American Church prayer services being conducted throughout the Navajo reservation.

With the new age of social media platforms like Facebook, almost anything can be shared online. From videos to audio recordings, Native American prayer songs can be heard on youtube and other platforms like iTunes for the world to hear.

With technology like smart phones, it makes very easy for someone to buy or download music to their phone.

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Upon hundreds of songs can be downloaded. Some Native artists will debate it’s for the younger generation and others will say it’s an exploitation of the church itself.

How can a platform be in place with today’s technology to be ‘friendlier’ to Native American sacred songs for people who would like to learn more about the songs or teachings while protecting the intellectual rights of the NAC or Navajo traditional teachings.

In the past, many Navajos in particular went to jail for using ‘peyote’ in a tee pee meeting, it seems that one day that issue will be looked, but at what cost.

Without speculation, the Native American Church has a very strong following, upon thousands throughout U.S. on Tribal reservations conduct meetings on a weekly basis. The medicine is also becoming more expensive being home grown in Texas and throughout Mexico.

We asked our readers this very same questions and the verdict was split, Kee Jackson a Navajo living in Texas said, “I think it’s not exploited, it’s the talent that is exposed just as any musical artist/s. The traditional emphasis of NAC has no part when one is sharing their talent/skills on youtube or other social platforms. As in Christianity, spread the message through even NAC prayer songs. Why be ignorant and selfish about it?”

Jimmie Joe, who said, “As Dine’s we are supposed to share through our passionate k’é system fortunately we share them at a click of a button these days, It’s all good.”

According to wiki, laws regulating peyote use by Native American Church members vary by state. In 1978, Congress passed an amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, which allows the use and transportation of peyote by Native Americans or members of the NAC,

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