Métis Music : Stories of Recognition and Resurgence Weighted Bear passing their days playing endless

passing their days playing endless games of cribbage and cracking cans of cheap beer in between

The award-winning story of a young Cree man with the skills of a great hunter

and elegant interventions in fields often wrought by division and controversy

and applicability of certain aspects of the legal system have led John Borrows to argue that Canada's constitution is incomplete without a broader acceptance of Indigenous legal traditions

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Métis Music : Stories of Recognition and Resurgence Weighted Bear passing their days playing endlessMonique 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