Métis Music : Stories of Recognition and Resurgence Labrador and Treaty 8 territory on

and Treaty 8 territory on Turtle Island

The government policy led to the loss of lands and access to traditional fishing areas for First Nations

Indigenous Peoples have always Smudged and use Sacred Medicines in Ceremony

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from the  Sto:lo Nation is Associate Dean for Indigenous Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia

Métis Music : Stories of Recognition and Resurgence Labrador and Treaty 8 territory onMonique Giroux holds the Canada Research Chair in Mtis Music and is associate professor of music at the University of Lethbridge. She grew up in southern Manitoba (a French Scottish settler living in Oeti akwi Anishinaabe territory in the Mtis Homeland), where she became part of the very active old time fiddle circuit. What makes music Mtis, and who gets to decide? Complex dynamics of recognition, non recognition, and erasure have played out over a