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The Native American flute is known to evoke images of the Old West, a wolf calling to its mate or an eagle silhouetted against a fiery red-painted sky. No one knows this better than Andy Talley who, ...

Bluff • “Start from silence!” third grade teacher Sarah Burak repeats, raising her voice above the din of 10 elementary school students playing traditional Native American wooden flutes. Her class, ...

Native American flute player Mary Youngblood won Grammy Awards in 2002 and 2006 for two albums she composed and performed, but not everyone congratulated her. That's because in some areas of the ...

After tragedy strikes, creatives often head to their studios with the hope of processing their feelings through artistic outlets. From moving paint across canvas to molding clay, the very act of ...

POLSON - Up Hell Roaring Road, high above Flathead Lake and back in the forests of the Mission Mountains, the gentle sounds of a flute float through the trees occasionally. This is where Jim Ofstad, a ...