Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition
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When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest. That’s because to the Ojibwe, the drum is the heartbeat of their people, and…