JOANNE SHENANDOAH AND BILL MILLER TO RECEIVE SPECIAL HONORS AS LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS AT NINTH ANNUAL NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS

New York, NY - Two of the biggest names in the Native American music
industry, Joanne Shenandoah and Bill Miller, will be presented with Lifetime
Achievement Awards on Saturday, October 6, 2007, at the Seneca Niagara
Casino & Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York.

As the Native American Music Awards leading award recipient with nine
awards, Joanne Shenandoah is also a GRAMMY Award-winning artist with 14
albums to her credit. A Wolf Clan member of the Iroquois Confederacy (Oneida
Nation) who currently resides in Syracuse, New York, Joanne began her
recording career in the late 1980's. She has forged forward to become one of
the top-selling and most widely recognized Native recording artists today.
Her legacy has been highlighted by collaborations with Bruce Cockburn and
Neil Young and performances with; Willie Nelson, Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree),
Kris Kristofferson, Floyd Westerman (Dakota), Robbie Robertson (Mohawk), R.
Carlos Nakai (Navajo/Ute). Her repertoire has spanned the realms of country,
rock, techno, gospel, children's songs and folk as well as her best-known
traditional Iroquois social songs. Since emerging as an artist in 1989, she
has performed at such high-profile shows at Carnegie Hall, the White House,
Kennedy Center, Earth Day on the Mall, Woodstock '94, the Parliament of the
Worlds Religions in South Africa and the famous Sagrada Familia, in
Barcelona Spain. Her music has been used in many soundtracks to include HBO,
PBS, Northern Exposure, Bose Systems, and The Discovery Channel. She has
just been featured in the newly released film "The Last Winter" starring Ron
Perlman and has a principal role in the Discovery Channel/Think Film release
of "First Nations - Hiawatha's Story" (Ayenwentha).

Bill Miller has long been one of the most admired figures in the Native
American music arena and beyond. A GRAMMY award-winning recording artist,
and six-time NAMA award winner, Bill hails from northern Wisconsin (his
tribe is called Mahicanuk which means People From Where The Waters Are Never
Still). His Indian name, Fush-Ya Heay Ka, means "bird song". He learned
traditional songs at an early age and later began to play folk music and
bluegrass as well as the Native American flute, which he came to master. He
has written songs with the likes of Nancy Griffith, Peter Rowan and Kim
Carnes, and shared the stage with national recording artists such as; Pearl
Jam's Eddie Vedder, the BoDeans, Richie Havens, Arlo Guthrie and Tori Amos
who he was the opening act for her "Under The Pink" U.S. and Canadian 200
date tour. His long recording career includes such landmark albums as; Loon
Mountain and Moon, Red Road, Reservation Road, Raven In The Snow, Ghost
Dance and The Art Of Survival. Over the past three years, Bill has produced
two projects, Spirit Rain and Cedar Dream Songs that blend Native American
and western folk/blues traditions in something wholly new. Spirit Rain and
Cedar Dream Songs bought Bill great recognition and earned him a Grammy
Award for Best Native American Recording. Bill has an equally active career
as a painter and his work has been shown and sold in prestigious galleries
around the country. He is currently working with John Carter Cash for his
next recording.

The Native American Music Awards' (N.A.M.A.) Lifetime Achievement Award is a
highly prestigious award presented to an individual whose life has been
dedicated to music and who has made outstanding artistic contributions in
the music recording field. Recipients of this award will be honored at the
Awards ceremony on October 6th. Recipients were nominated and elected by the
N.A.M.A. Advisory Board.

Hosted by actor, Steve Reevis, this year's Awards program will feature a
night of musical excellence with over 30 awards presentations and a more
than fifteen live music performances including; special performances by Bill
Miller, Joanne Shenandoah, and Jan Michael Looking Wolf with George Noriega
whose other collaborations include: Phil Ramone, Timbaland, Scott Storch,
Robi "Draco" Rosa, Desmond Child, Ricky Martin, Emilio Estefan, Jennifer
López, Shakira, Jon Secada, and many more.

The Native American Music Awards has been acclaimed for having "all the
professionalism and production values of much larger events like the Grammy
Awards and the American Music Awards" (American Federation of Radio
Television Artists). The Awards has received wide critical praise from both
national and international media such as; USA Today, Associated Press, CNN,
Wall Street Journal, Billboard Magazine, New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
La Voce Italiana and France's International Herald Tribune.

Nominees were selected by the Awards' Advisory membership committee and
winners are determined through a national voting campaign open to the
general public. The Native American Music Awards' Advisory Board is the
country's largest membership of music professionals directly involved in
recording, manufacturing, distributing and promoting Native American music.

A Special Nominee & Media Reception will be held on Friday, October 5th in
the Bear's Den at the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino at 6:ooPM.

511 Avenue of the Americas Suite 371 New York NY 10011 (212) 228-8300