ARLINGTON - While Dario Meguire lay near death on life support in a Seattle hospital in June, the recorded Native American flute music his mother played for him penetrated his unconscious state.

Technically, playing an inauthentic flute violates the U.S. Indian Arts and Crafts Act, passed in 1990 to ban the sale of goods falsely labeled "Native American.

Raised in a family of musicians, Melissa Little Wolf Villalobos was introduced to Native American music by her elders. She first heard the sounds of Native American flautist R. Carols Nakai, of ...

The Native American flute is a wooded instrument that is played straight down. Benedict describes it as simple and ancient instrument that is easy to play. “You just play from your heart,” he ...

Native American flute, he discovered, was easy to learn. And it was a gateway to serenity. He’d spent 22 years in the Navy and then worked in law enforcement.