Research guides: Music: Indigenous music

Indigenous musicians

Click on the genre tabs to find links to websites/streaming platforms of a selection of Indigenous musicians. Wherever possible, we have listed basic information about each artist as quoted or paraphrased from their website. This list is growing. Please let us know if you have suggestions for artists to add – we want to hear from you!

This list has been inspired by – and incorporates content from – the Xwi7xwa Library Indigenous Music & Dance research guide. Thank you to the Xwi7xwa Library team for your generosity in sharing this knowledge!

Andrew Balfour
Of Cree descent, Andrew Balfour is an innovative composer/conductor/singer/sound designer with a large body of choral, instrumental, electro-acoustic and orchestral works, including Take the Indian (a vocal reflection on missing children), Empire Étrange: The Death of Louis Riel, Bawajigaywin (Vision Quest) and Manitou Sky, an orchestral tone poem.
Barbara Croall
Barbara Croall is Odawa First Nations (Giniw dodem, Manidoo Mnissing) and balances her time composing, performing and teaching music, with work in outdoor education rooted in traditional Anishinaabeg teachings, work with Aboriginal youth and singing in traditional ceremonies.
Beverley McKiver
Composer and music educator just east of Ottawa, Ontario.
Brent Michael Davids
Brent Michael Davids is a concert and film composer, co-director of the Lenape Center in Manhattan, and citizen of the Mohican Nation.
Corey Payette
Corey Payette is proud of his Oji-Cree heritage from Northern Ontario, and has worked across Canada as a playwright, actor, composer, and director.
Cris Derksen
Juno nominated Cris Derksen, originally from Northern Alberta, Canada, is an internationally respected Indigenous (Cree) cellist and composer.
Ian Cusson
Canadian composer of art song, opera and orchestral work. Of Métis and French Canadian descent, his work explores the Canadian Aboriginal experience, including the history of the Métis people, the hybridity of mixed-racial identity, and the intersection of Western and Indigenous cultures.
Jeremy Dutcher
Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick. Performer, composer, activist, musicologist.
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate
Classical composer, citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition.
John Kim Bell
Born in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, John Kim Bell is an internationally recognized composer, conductor and philanthropist.
Louis Ballard
Quapaw (Oklahoma, USA) composer and music educator.
Marion Newman
Marion Newman, Kwagiulth and Stó:lo First Nations, English, Irish and Scottish mezzo-soprano.
Melody McKiver
Melody McKiver is a musician and composer from Sioux Lookout, Treaty #3/Northwestern Ontario. Melody is a violinist/violist, drummer/percussionist, and producer whose musical work integrates electronics with Western classical music to shape a new genre of Anishinaabe compositions.
Michael Begay
Michael Begay is a Dine composer of chamber music, experimental sound, Native American flute, and metal. He is an accomplished guitarist and bassist, and also plays piano, and various instruments both Native American and orchestral.
Michelle Lafferty
Mezzo-soprano Michelle Lafferty is a First Nations Indigenous woman from the Northwest Territories. She is completing her Master’s degree in Literature and Performance at the University of Western Ontario.
Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation.
Russell Wallace
Composer, producer, singer, and musician from the Lil’wat Nation (BC). Wallace's 2021 album, "Unceded Tongues", combines jazz, blues, pop, and Salish musical forms and is sung in the St'át'imc language.
Sonny-Ray Day Rider
Sonny-Ray Day Rider is a contemporary Indigenous composer and pianist studying music at the University of Lethbridge’s faculty of Fine Arts. He is a Blackfoot sound artist who is currently involved in research that integrates his traditional sound world with western art song practices.

Adrian Sutherland
Adrian Sutherland is a roots-rock recording artist from Attawapiskat First Nation on James Bay. He’s a singer, songwriter, musician, speaker, advocate, author, and entrepreneur. He’s also a father of four, grandfather to four, a traditional knowledge keeper, and a respected cultural leader, fluent in Mushkegowuk Cree.
Annie Humphrey
Annie Humphrey, Ojibwe, Leech Lake Reservation in Northern Minnesota, is a singer, songwriter, and visual artist. She has been recording for 30 years. In 2018 she named Artist of the Year at the Native American Music Awards.
Black Belt Eagle Scout
Black Belt Eagle Scout is Katherine Paul. Singer, songwriter, and musician (piano, guitar, drums) she grew up on the Swinomish Indian Reservation in NW Washington state.
Derek Miller
Two-time JUNO winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Derek Miller from Six Nations of the Grand River is a journeyman musician with eclectic taste and a knack for guitar oriented roots-inflected rock with a pop sensibility.
George Leach
George Leach, Stl'atl'imx from Lillooet, BC is a musician. songwriter, and actor.
The Halluci Nation
As they enter a new cycle, Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill of A Tribe Called Red are reintroducing themselves as The Halluci Nation, to reflect the evolution of their music and mission. The Halluci Nation's album, One More Saturday Night, was nominated for the 2022 Juno Electronic Album of the Year.
Jay Gilday
Raised in a family of musicians on the tundra of Yellowknife, singer/songwriter Jay Gilday's music incorporates the ancestral traditions of Dene spirituals, Irish ballads, Canadian folk and rock.
The Jerry Cans
Iqaluit’s The Jerry Cans are a band from and for the north—they’ve always been committed to making music that honours and dialogues with their home communities. They bring a wash of glassy, slashing electric guitars, thundering drums, effects-warped throat singing, and darkened violin work, echoing sounds of love, anxiety, desperation, and grief, as well as the tangled relationships in between.
Jesse Ed Davis
Jesse Ed Davis (Kiowa, Norman Oklahoma) was a well respected session and solo musician (guitarist). Indicted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame in 2018, Davis was a member of Taj Mahal and played with artists such as George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and John Lennon.
John Trudell
John Trudell was a poet, recording artist, actor, and speaker. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Trudell grew up on and around the nearby Santee Sioux reservation (his father was Santee, his mother’s tribal roots were in Mexico).
Kristi Lane Sinclair
Toronto-based singer/songwriter draws equally from her Haida/Cree heritage and her love of both grunge and classical music to create a sound that challenges long-held preconceptions, while telling her own unique story.
Leela Gilday
A passionate singer/songwriter and soulful performer, Leela Gilday has a voice that comes straight from the heart. Confessing her stories to her audiences with a gutsy voice and open stage presence, Gilday weaves her experiences as a northerner, a member of the Dene nation, and a traveler into a beautiful world that transports the listener.
Midnight Shine
Turning heads with an unforgettable sound that seamlessly mixes roots, classic and modern rock with touches of Mushkegowuk Cree, Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine have been lighting up the music world all the way from Canada’s Far North.
Mourning Coup
Mourning Coup is a music project spearheaded by performance/visual artist Chandra Melting Tallow from the Siksika Nation.
NADJIWAN
From a Finnish and Ojibway background, Toronto-based songwriter and producer Marc Meriläinen is the creator of the multi-award nominated NADJIWAN project. Marc uses traditional Finnish folk guitar tunings and instruments like the kantele and the jouhikko alongside modern beats and Aboriginal style vocables combined with Finnish lyrics.
Nick Sherman
Singer/songwriter, Nick Sherman calls his rural birthplace of Sioux Lookout home and spent years moving between his hometown, the small First Nation community of Weagamow Lake, and his family’s trapline on North Caribou Lake. His songs are inspired by his memories of those early trapline sounds and by great songwriters including William Elliott Whitmore, Ray LaMontagne, Sam Cooke, and Elvis Costello.
nêhiyawak
nêhiyawak hails from amiskwaciy (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory. On the band’s 2019 debut album, nipiy – the trio of Indigenous artists – Kris Harper (vocals, guitars), Marek Tyler (drums), and Matthew Cardinal (synths, bass) – transcends a new intersection of traditional storytelling and contemporary sound.
Northern Haze
In 1985, Northern Haze released their first record, the self-titled Northern Haze, through the CBC. All of the original music featured lyrics in Inuktitut, making this the first Indigenous-language rock album recorded in North America. Rousing guitar riffs reminiscent of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin mix with traditional Inuit songs and stories to make a sound that is uniquely theirs, and a special representation of Canada’s far North.
Pura Fé
Pura Fé, whose name means "Pure Faith," was born in New York City and is an heir to the Tuscarora Indian Nation. She is an artist, an activist, and much more. Her musical journey, running the gamut from folk to mainstream through an artful use of the blues, reflects the concerns of an artist who grew up in the Motown era, while citing Buffy Sainte-Marie, Charley Patton and Joni Mitchell as her true mentors. And, more widely, “traditional music from all over the world, wherever the spirit is connected to our roots.”
Randy Castillo
Randy Castillo was an American musician and drummer. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, his mother was Spanish/French/Native American, and father was Native American/Hispanic. He was the drummer for Ozzy Osbourne from the mid-1980s to early 1990s, and the drummer for Mötley Crüe from 1999 to his death in 2022.
Redbone
American funk rock band founded by brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas who were of Yaqui, Shoshone, and Mexican heritage.
Robbie Robertson
Musician, songwriter, film composer, actor, producer and author of Mohawk, Scottish, and Jewish ancestry.
Stevie Salas
Guitarist, music, TV and film producer, author, television host, music director, film composer, songwriter and recording artist. Proud Apache.
Tanya Tagaq
Tanya Tagaq is an award winning experimental vocalist and throat singer from Iqualuktuuttiaq ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᖅ (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut.

The Chieftones
The Chieftones was a Canadian country music band formed in Edmonton, Alberta. Members included First Nations musicians Billy ThunderKloud, Jack Wolf, Barry Littlestar, and Richard Grayowl.
Cory Cardinal
Cory Cardinal has over 20 years of musical involvement including performances, technical productions and recording.
Crystal Shawanda
Crystal Shawanda is a country and blues singer/songwriter who grew up on the Wikwemikong reserve on an island in Ontario, Canada.
Don Amero
Don Amero is a storyteller, singer-songwriter, and performer of Cree and Metis heritage.
Jade Turner
Songwriter and performer Jade Turner is an emerging artist in Manitoba’s country music scene.
JC Campbell
JC Campbell is of Indigenous and European ancestry. Born and raised in Winnipeg Manitoba by music loving and performing parents, this Country/Blues singer writes about life.
Kelly Derrickson
Kelly Derrickson is a First Nation artist from Westbank, British Columbia. She studied music and earned her degree at Berklee College of Music for Music Business and Performing Arts.
Kimberley Dawn
Kimberley Dawn is a multi-award winning Aboriginal singer
Matt James
Singer/songwriter Matt James is from Mattagami First Nations, near Timmins Ontario.

Aasiva
Colleen Nakashuk, who performs as Aasiva, is a Inuktitut songwriter. With Inuktitut lyrics and delicate throat singing elements interwoven throughout her songs, Aasiva’s music offers a fresh, buoyant and distinctive twist on indie folk.
Andrea Menard
Andrea Menard is a versatile, powerhouse performer who bridges cultural and language boundaries by speaking from her heart. This Métis Song Keeper has created life-long fans with her songs, her stories, and her message of hope.
Ansley Simpson
Ansley Simpson is a Toronto-based Anishinaabe speaker, label rep, and singer-songwriter known for her poetic lyrics, deeply moving vocal-only performances, and dream-like arrangements.
Caitlin Goulet
Caitlin Goulet brings a vulnerable yet confident and emotionally charged voice to her eccentric and melodramatic brand of alternative pop/R&B.Caitlin is of Métis/French/Irish/Scottish heritage.
Carsen Gray
Hailing from Haida Gwaii, BC, Carsen Gray is indigenous (Haida) and mixed descent and is no stranger to a life of art, music, and entertainment.
Cassidy Houston
Northern Ontario based, Metis singer-songwriter Cassidy Houston captivates hearts with her soulful yet candid performances. With her distinct, New Folk sound, Cassidy gives listeners an honest and open-hearted look into her life through her music.
Celeigh Cardinal
Digging Roots
Folk-rock, pop, blues, and hip hop musicians Shoshona Kish and Raven Kanatakta.
Edzi’u
Edzi’u is a 2S Tahltan and inland Tlingit sound artist, songwriter, composer.
Fara Palmer
Fara Palmer is an award-wining pop and R&B vocalist, songwriter, and performing artist originating from First Nations and Canadian Territories.
Indian City
ndian City is a Canadian Folk Pop band performing to audiences across North America and beyond. Their dynamic fusion of lyrics, music and personality captures the spirit and pulse of a vibrant Indigenous culture.
iskwē
iskwē | ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ is, among many other things, an artist – a creator and communicator of music and of movement, of pictures, poetry and prose. And through it all, she’s a teller of stories that have impacted our past and will inform our future.
Jayli Wolf
Singer-songwriter, actress, and filmmaker born in Creston, BC. Wolf is of mixed Danish and Saulteaux decent, learning in childhood that her father was taken in the Sixties Scoop.
Joel Wood
Joel Wood is a Cree musician from Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada. His album, Singing Is Healing, was a Juno Award nominee for the 2022 Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year.
Mimi O'Bonsawin
If you can embrace the grace and power of Northern Ontario landscapes, you will feel the music of Mimi O’Bonsawin. She epitomizes the powerful scenery and the beauty of its waters through her music, all the while yielding to her rich and warm French Canadian and Abenakis heritages. Her musical creations flow through a center of love, with the intention to give back and spread awareness.
NIMKISH
NIMKISH is an Indigenous/Queer artist based out of Vancouver, BC. NIMKISH writes from a personal place and of the trials of life and heartbreak. Her sound is a smooth blend of Pop and Electronic with hints of R&B production layered in between.
Quantum Tangle
Fusing of old-world sounds and new-world flair, the Juno Award-winning group Quantum Tangle is embracing their blended background. Combining their talents of throat singing, haunting melodies and traditional legends, Grey Gritt and Tiffany Ayalik are excited to present pieces that look back through history to challenge, educate and encourage the next generation to be socially aware.
Riit
Riit, from majestic Panniqtuq, Nunavut, is a new artist making space for herself in the electropop world with Inuktitut lyrics and deep rhythmic vocals layered over gemological synth cuts and sticky, staticky electronic textures. Riit's music emerges from very distinct circumstances of place, language and experience.
Sandra Sutter
Sandra Sutter is Cree Métis, tracing her lineage back to the 1800s. Raised in a loving non-Indigenous family, Sandra discovered and embraced her ancestral and cultural roots later in life. She sings, writes and plays in a variety of styles including folk, country, jazz and rock.
Shawnee Kish
Shawnee is a two-spirited Mohawk singer-songwriter based in Edmonton, AB.
Tara Williamson
Tara Williamson is an Indigenous singer/songwriter currently based in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough, Ontario).
Twin Flames
This multi-award-winning husband and wife duo is made up of Chelsey June and Jaaji, both of Indigenous backgrounds. Jaaji is Inuk and Mohawk from Nunavik and Chelsey June métis (Algonquin Cree) from Ottawa. Honouring their ancestors, they sing songs in English, Inuttitut and French.

Alas Musika
Rap artist and activist based out of Portland Oregon.
Allison Akootchook Warden
Allison Akootchook Warden, also known as AKU-MATU, is an interdisciplinary artist working in visual arts (installation. performance) and hip-hop from Alaska. AKU-MATU is the abbreviation of two of Warden's Iñupiaq names, Akootchook and Matumeak. Akootchook was her Amau (great-Grandfather), and Matumeak was her Attata (great-Uncle) and was known for composing original songs.
Angel Haze
A newcomer to the hip hop scene, she began writing at age 11 and the idea that her captions might actually be lyrics only occurred to her somewhat recently, when a friend opened her eyes to the possibility of turning her poems into raps. When asked her goal as a musician, she confidently replies, “I want to make people feel connected. I want to tell a story – everybody’s story”.
Calina Lawrence
Of the Suquamish Nation, Calina Lawrence was born and raised within her ancestral culture at a time during the reawakening of the teachings of the canoe and the Coast Salish way of life in the Pacific Northwest. While lending her voice to the preservation of Suquamish traditions, she also grew to love many contemporary genres such as bluegrass, soul, hip hop and Spoken Word Poetry which would eventually lead her on her journey to respectfully expressing a fusion of it all.
Che Christ
Rap and hip hop influenced artist.
Crystle Lightning
Crystle Lightning is a Hobbema/Enoch Cree actress, musician, DJ, and hip-hop MC. She is also part of Electro-House-Hip-Hop duo, LightningCloud, with performance partner, MC RedCloud.
DJ Shub
DJ Shub is a Mohawk DJ and music producer and member of the Six Nations of the Grand River. He is a former member of a Tribe Called Red.
Drezus
Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada and from the Muskowekwan and Cote First Nations respectively, Drezus has opened up a new world that combines traditional Anishinaabe and Nehiyaw teachings with hip-hop music and expression.
Hellnback
Hellnback also known as Karmen Omeasoo is from the Samson Cree Nation in Alberta.
Jah'kota
Justin “Jah’kota” Holness is a 2019 Indigenous Music Award Nominee for best rap hip hop album of the year for WOKE. His music is inspired by the mission to help Indigenize Canada.
JB The First Lady
Jerilynn Webster, aka JB the First Lady, is a member of the Nuxalk & Onondaga Nations. She is a Vancouver-based hip hop and spoken word artist, beat-boxer, cultural dancer and youth educator.
Joey Stylez
Joey Stylez is a Juno-nominated Hip Hop artist. He has opened for artists such as Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Billy Ray Cyrus. His catalogue has tracks with the likes of Grammy Award winning producer James Ho (Malay).
Lil Mike & FunnyBone
LIL MIKE & FUNNYBONE are two of the best Native American rappers the world has ever seen.
Mamarudegyal MTHC aka MamaEmpress
Mamarudegyal is a young mother, and KRUMP Dancer of Empirical Freedom Dance Crew, Hailing from Calgary AB. Her lifetime's Creative scale has been devoted to Dance, to Emceeing, to Graffiti, and much, much more; Mamarudegyal Lives to experience Hip Hop day in and day out.
Mattmac
Mattmac (aka Matthew Monias) is a Oji-Cree rap artist and producer. From Garden Hill First Nation, Manitoba, Mattmac has been blind from birth. Mattmac began to struggle with depression at a young age and credits music for helping him cope.
Mob Bounce
Mob Bounce is Indigenous influenced Hip Hop with a fuse of EDM (Electronic Dance Music), with Traditional and Contemporary aspects.
Snotty Nose Rez Kids
Snotty Nose Rez Kids is a Canadian Hip-Hop duo of Haisla descent from Kitimat, BC, composed of rappers Yung Trybez and Young D.
Supaman
As a member of the Apsaalooke Nation, Supaman makes his home on the Crow reservation in Montana. “Supaman” Is Christian Takes Gun Parrish, a Native American dancer and innovative hip hop artist who has dedicated his life to empowering and spreading a message of hope, pride and resilience through his original art form.
Taboo (Jaime Luis Gomez)
Best known as a member of The Black Eyed Peas, Taboo is a rapper, singer, songwriter, DJ, and actor of Shoshone and Mexican descent.
T-Rhyme
Cree/Dene poet/rapper.
Tanya Winder
Tanaya Winder is a poet, writer, artist and educator who was raised on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, CO. An enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, her background includes Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Diné, and Black heritages.
A Tribe Called Red
Canadian electronic dance music group originally from Ottawa, Ontario. A Tribe Called Red blends vocal chanting and drumming with instrumental hip hop, reggae, and dubstep music.
Uyarakq
Uyarakq (real name Aqqalu Engell) is an Inuit electronic/rap musician, producer, and DJ from Greenland.

Bryden Gwiss Kiwenzie
Bryden Gwiss Kiwenzie is a Canadian musician of Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Delaware, Oneida and Mi'kmaq ancestry. His music fuses Indigenous vocal chants with hip hop and R&B dance beats.
Chippewa Travellers
Chippewa Travellers are an Aniishinaabeg family drum group originally from Chippewas of Nawash.
Eastern Eagle
Eastern Eagle is a group of proud Mi'kmaq singers from Canada's east coast.
Fawn Wood
Fawn Wood was born in Cree Round Dance season on an icy October evening. Through her father, Earl Wood of Saddle Lake, Alberta, she inherited the Round Dance and Pow-Wow singing traditions of his Plains Cree forefathers. Through her mother, Cindy Jim-Wood, she inherited the traditions and Salish chants of the Whonnock and Stlatlimx peoples. Fawn’s distinct style reflects the confluence of her parents’ tribal lineages.
Kym Gouchie
Singer/songwriter and artist, Kym Gouchie's music brings awareness to First Nations and women's issues. She is a multi-talented musician using voice, hand drum, and guitar to play music in traditional First Nations, folk, and country genres.
Little Creek Singers
Little Creek Singers are Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Cree, and Algonquin singers who first came together in 2012 to promote Pow Wow music and protocol to the younger generations.
Manitou Mkwa Singers
Manitou Mkwa Singers (Spirit Bear Singers) are from the Mississaugas of the Credit. We are a family Hand drum group that sings pow-wow, and round dance songs.
New Agency Singers
Nimkii and the Niniis
SInger and drummer, Nimkii Osawamick, of Nimkii and the Niniis (Nimkii and the guys) is from Odawa/Potawatomi from Wiikwemkoong, Unceded Territory located on the Manitoulin Islands (Ontario, CA).
Sweetgrass Singers
Traditional Pow Wow singers (Cree).
Wabanaki Confederacy
Wabanaki Confederacy are a northern style powwow singing group based in Eastern Canada. This group strives to blend a traditional style of Mi'kmaq singing with a more current style of northern Pow Wow.
Whitefish Bay Singers
The Whitefish Bay Singers formed in the 1970’s. With their own style of singing and their own songs they began getting attention from other areas of the Pow Wow world.
Young Bear Singers
Originally formed in 1999.
Young Spirit Singers
Founded in the Frog Lake Cree First Nation, Alberta, Canada, Young Spirit (oskiyak kīsik in Plains Cree) has quickly become one of the most in-demand and respected groups on the Pow-Wow trail and the Round Dance circuit.

Contemporary

Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America

Victoria Lindsay Levine & Dylan Robinson, 2019
Call number: ML 3550 M88 2019

Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures

Pamela Karantonis & Dylan Robinson, 2011
E-book

Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada: Echoes and Exchanges

Anna Hoefnagels & Beverley Diamond, 2012
E-book and in print: ML 3563.6 A154 2012

Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America

Kyle T. Mays, 2018
E-book

Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop

Jeff Berglund, Jan Johnson & Kimberli Lee, 2016
Call number: ML 3557 I63 2016

Indigenous music online

Indigenous music programming

Indigenous Music Countdown - The Indigenous Music Countdown, hosted by Roz McIvor, presents new Indigenous music and shares interviews from artists representing a range of genres including hip-hop, rock, country, alternative, rock, folk and pop/dance.

Reclaimed with Jarrett Martineau, CBC Radio - Reclaimed is a weekly series on CBC Radio that explores the many worlds of contemporary Indigenous music from traditional songs and acoustic sounds to Native hip-hop, R&B, and the dancefloor-filling beats of electric powwow.

sākihiwē festival (formerly Aboriginal Music Week) - Website featuring news articles, artist bios, streaming music and more.

Indigenous in Music with Larry K - Host Larry Knudsen, Ho–Chunk Nation, Black River Falls, WI, brings live interviews and a mix of new music from Indigenous musicians from around the Western Hemisphere, a variety of rock, pop, country, flute, salsa, classical, house and electronica.

Playlists & programs

sākihiwē festival Indigenous Excellence Streaming Playlist - Youtube playlist curated by the sākihiwē festival featuring a variety of Indigenous musicians.

Digital Drum Video - Video playlist by Digital Drum, an Indigenous Music Media platform that showcases innovative talents and reaches within our emerging communities to bring you closer to the music. Digital Drum is no longer creating new content; however, existing playlists and video content on Youtube remain accessible.

CBC Cross Country Checkup: Art & Reconciliation - Hosted by Duncan McCue (2016), this 2 hour radio program asks if art — films, books, and music — offers the best path to heal historical wrongs. Guests include author Joseph Boyden, Inuk singer and songwriter Susan Aglukark, Ry Moran, Director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba, and University of Saskatchewan's Ken Coates.

Buffy - CBC Podcasts - Buffy Sainte-Marie is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of the past century. For 60 years her music has quietly reverberated throughout pop culture, and provided a touchstone for Indigenous resistance. In this five-part series, Mohawk and Tuscarora writer Falen Johnson explores how Buffy’s life and legacy is essential to understanding Indigenous resilience.

Websites

60 Years of Indigenous Music Game Changers, CBC Music - A (non-exhaustive) list celebrating a number of Indigenous artists and groups that have helped shape – and continue to shape – music across Canada.

IndigenousMusic.ca - Manitoba-based website providing articles, media, and information about Indigenous music in Manitoba and beyond. Part of the Indigenous Music Development Program helping First Nation peoples, Metis peoples and Inuit develop sustainable careers in the music industry.

Native Drums - Website devoted to the rich heritage of First Nations culture and music in Canada. Includes videos, and moving image galleries for Youth, in-depth interviews and articles for students, the image research database for scholars, and downloadable resource kits for teachers.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive - Streaming playlist, Indigenous Dance of the Americas, focuses on music and dance of the Indigenous Peoples of the Mohican, Nipmuc, Poncumtuc, and Agawam Tribes from present day and into the past.