American Histories, Native American Narratives

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Music and history are tightly intertwined in the life of Native Americans. The tribe's history is constantly spoken through music, interpreted, and maintains an oral story of history. These historical stories differ greatly between tribes and tribes and are part of the tribal identity. However, their historical credibility can not be verified; in addition to assumptions and some archaeological evidence, the earliest Native American literature came with the arrival of European explorers. Instruments and hieroglyphs that depict music and dance going back to the 7th century

The early history of American Indian music can be gathered from indigenous methods such as storyline history, traditional stories, archeology, imaging, linguistics. There is a way to emphasize the history between Inca and Azteca. Inca people have a sort of historical song, and the Aztecs are engraving symbolic pictures of several instruments that show how they played, when, where and how they played. Traditional stories and linguistics reveal that Native Americans have a wide history of regional interactions; over time, this will enrich their musical life and broaden them. Over the centuries, mutual participation in collective ceremonies is part of the lives of people in eastern Woodland, resulting in the creation of a complex music exchange network from Florida to Ontario, Canada. For example, according to archaeological records, teponaztli and huéhuetl played in central Mexico since the time before Colombia.