Culminating a 10-year effort to include the study of Native Americans and their music as it reflects cultural realities, life, thought, religion, and history as a choice in requirements for graduation, the elective course, "Native Music of North America," is now recognized at Washington State University as meeting both "Humanities" and "Intercultural" needs for undergraduate students. This recognition attests to the worth of sharing knowledge of people of different traditions, especially of people with proven resilience and positive survival resources and the benefits derived from the values, ethics, and world-view espoused in Native American music. Non-Indian teachers can foster the growth of Native American music by grooming Indian successors; locating talented Indians who may major or minor in music; developing funding sources for educating young Indian musicians; interacting closely with reservation, community, and campus Indian groups; and developing and using only classroom materials approved by those represented. Technological advances, including inexpensive cassette tape recorders, have made Native music immediately accessible. Native performers, representing a range of Washington's Indian tribes can be brought to the campus for this and related courses. Movies, slide shows, audiotapes, monographs, videotapes, scholarships, and fellowships have been developed and approved for use in the class. (NEC)