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

and Treaty 8 territory on Turtle Island

Outnumbering white settlers well into the nineteenth century

No communications were allowed between parents and their children attending the school

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

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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