Native American

Try looking up tunes by Buffy Sainte-Marie, she is a Native American singer of folk and other style tunes.   There are four of her tunes in the artists section, look under S.

Check out the band " Blackfoot "

and here's a ton of information on Native American Music;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_music 

.....and regarding the meaning of the lyrics to "American Pie" here's a short explanation;

["American Pie" is a folk rock song by singer-songwriter Don McLean.

Recorded and released on the American Pie album in 1971, the single was a number-one U.S. hit for four weeks in 1972. A re-release in 1991 did not chart in the U.S., but reached number 12 in the UK. The song is an abstract story surrounding "The Day the Music Died" — the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The importance of "American Pie" to America's musical and cultural heritage was recognized by the Songs of the Century education project which listed the song as the number five song of the twentieth century. Some Top 40 stations initially played only side two of the single, but the song's popularity eventually forced stations to play the entire piece.

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