Seems most commenters know him from the Band, so I thought I'd share how I know him instead since I seem to be in the minority.

When I was a kid my father gave me a copy of "Music for the Native Americans"[0], an album he put together in collaboration with several Native American artists as a soundtrack for a documentary. It's my favorite album ever written. I know that's just because I grew up listening to it so it rooted itself somewhere deep in my brain during my formative years, but I hope someone else might find it now and hear something beautiful in it too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_The_Native_Americans....