Southern California Indian Center is a Grammy Nominated Pow Wow

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Southern California Indian Center) - "Oklahoma Style," a live recording of the 35th Annual Southern California Indian Center Pow Wow held at Orange County, California, is nominated among four other recordings as Best Native American Music Album for the 2008 Grammy Awards.

The recording features Walter Ahhaitty & Friends, with the Comanche Little Ponies, and Tom Bee (founder of Sound of America Records) as producer in association with the Southern California Indian Center, Inc.

The Recording Academy added the "Best Native American Music Album" category in 2001, which is the only category open to American Indian musicians. That year, the Recording Academy awarded the first-ever Best Native American Music Album Grammy to album producers/engineers Tom Bee and Douglas Spotted Eagle for a live recording of the 1999 "Gathering of Nations Pow Wow," performed by various Native artists. In 2004, Mr. Bee received a second Grammy award in this category for producing the album "Flying Free," performed by Black Eagle, and was also nominated for producing his own album, "Reveal His Glory."

"Native music produced during our annual Pow Wows is a source of unity among tribal participants and a source of spirituality with the Creator. Our Pow Wows bring together so many talented Americans Indians; we are pleased in this recognition by The Recording Academy," says Paula Starr, Executive Director of the Southern California Indian Center, Inc (SCIC) and SCIC Pow Wow Producer.