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My Piercings Are Cultural.

I literally felt a calling to all the piercings that I got growing up. Having a new piercing was more than enhancing my beauty, but enhancing my spirit or making a promise. I would get a new piercing each time I reached a new transition in my life. For example one day I was praying deeply and when I was done I first got my septum pierced at the age of 16. It was calling me for months before I had finally committed the act. I could feel my ancestors directing me to this piercing. As an Urban Ndn I was actually raised with my culture and tribal ways,but I took it for granted. It was at this age I began to truly dive deeper in my culture and have understanding of my peoples ways. Eventually I had stretched my ears, just like my ancestors. Each time I stretched, I felt closer to the creator for that is my tribes belief. My labret piercing..I originally pierced my labret when my ex had took her life away....the day I found out about this tragedy I pierced my lip for that was the last piercing she had before she had passed. I have and always had a deep understanding for death. I was sad and in disbelief I had lost someone close to me. I mourned her death by getting my labret pierced. This processed seemed slower than usual. Though about 3 days passed before getting my lips pierced,I felt bottled up. It was only after I felt relieved when my ritual was done. Once the needle had reached my lip and pierced through the flesh of my skin as blood dripped down my lips, all I invisioned was her. I had mourned for a couple of months..and finally was ready to let go which means that I was to remove my piercing and let it close. Later on I re-pierced it in a different stage in my life where I was educating other Urban Ndns from the tribes that im mixed with on Native Identity and History. I then re-pierced my lip to symbolize I too speak with wisdom. Many non native people think that this is a trend amongst young people however africans and native people have been practicing body modifications before European contact. 

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First Nations Comedians and Native American Comedians 3

·       Tonia Jo Hall

Tonia Jo Hall is a 25 year old Lakota/Dakota/Hidatsa comedian. She started posting videos to her YouTube. She is the woman behind the popular character "Auntie Beachress", the bold, trash-talking aunt who has led thousands to laughter. Tonia's comedy continues to be the hottest, most current trending humor you can find.

·       Ernie Tsosie.

Ernie is proud to be a sober and drug free Native American entertainer and motivational speaker. His weapons against alcoholism, addiction, depression and suicide are his against alcoholism and addiction. Ernie performs and presents comedy with a positive message and his comedy serves as the vehicle to pass along this most important of messages. Ernest Tsosie III was born in Arizona, USA. He is an actor, known for A Thief of Time (2004), Pete & Cleo (2010) and 5th World (2005).

·       Deanna M.A.D.

Deanna M.A.D. received the Embrey Women’s Leadership Scholarship through the American Indian College Fund, and graduates from Fort Lewis College with a degree in Anthropology on April 27th. While at Fort Lewis she became actively involved with performing by participating in dance performances as well as the annual production of The Vagina Monologues. She was crowned First Attendant of the Hozhoni Days Pow Wow in 2012 and also began doing stand-up comedy. Deanna has performed stand-up routines for the Feminist Voice club at Fort Lewis College and has been an opening act for the 49 Laughs comedy troupe.

·       James Junes

JAMES JUNES has been doing comedy for 10 years both as a SOLO Comedy Act/Guest Speaker and Actor and is part of the award winning duo “JAMES & ERNIE COMEDY” and also part of “49 LAUGHS COMEDY”. James Junes has been doing comedy & guest speaking on platforms of: conferences, camps, churches, organizations, concerts & events for over 10 years. He has traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada and continues to do what he loves.

·       Jon Roberts

An enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, the Ojibwe Outlaw (who was born Lydell Jon Roberts in the Year of the Dragon) is a writer/director/producer & owner of 94 Warriors Studios and has been making people laugh since his mother told the world she was pregnant. Having performed with funny men Tatanka Means, Vaughn EagleBear, Marc Yaffee, Ryan McMahon, Tito Ybarra, Jim Ruel, Gilbert Brown, Howie Miller, J.R. Redwater & funny lady Shishonia, Mr. Roberts made a name for himself in the comedy world with a smashing debut at the Native American Comedy Festival at Seven Clans Casino – Red Lake and followed that up with a rockin’ set at the Native Comedy Jam – Part Deux and Part 3, also in Red Lake. He has performed in comedy clubs in Minnesota & South Dakota regularly and with his deadpan style, a little too honest observations along with a reputation that got him banned from his first ever venue after his FIRST EVER performance, the Ojibwe Outlaw is ready to make some noise in the world of comedy.

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First Nations Musicians and Native American Musicians There were no borders. Part Four.

·       Derek Miller.

Derek Miller (born 29 October 1974 in Six Nations, Ontario) is an Aboriginal Canadian singer-songwriter.

He has received two Juno Awards.

He performed at the Closing Ceremonies of the

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics with Eva Avila and Nikki Yanofsky

·       Eekwol.

Eekwol (born Lindsay Knight) is a Muskoday First Nation rapper who is a solo female aboriginal hip hop artist."Her music offers  Natives, and Native Women in particular, a positive alternative to negative, violent stereotypes she is a graduate of the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan (M.A.).

Her master's thesis, completed through the Department of Native Studies, examines past and present Indigenous music and how both are interconnected.

·       Jerry Alfred.

Jerry Alfred (born 1955 in Mayo, Yukon) is a Northern Tutchone musician living in Pelly Crossing Yukon, speaking the Northern Tutchone language. He received a 1996 Juno Award for his recording ETSI Shon (Grandfather Song) in the category Aboriginal Recording of the Year. His parents bought him his first guitar when he was seven, and he began learning in earnest in his teens, probably due to the influence of Bob Dylan.

·       John Angaiak.

I’m Lost in the City (1971) is the sole vinyl LP offering from Yup’ik singer-songwriter, John Angaiak. Born in Nightmute Alaska in 1941 Angaiak began playing guitar at a young age, quickly learning the basics before serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Stationed in Vietnam and far away from home, Inspired by the program’s work and a friendship with music student Stephen Halbern, Angaiak recorded I’m Lost in the City, a project that helped to document and promote the previously oral Yup’ik language into a written one through a series of songs. Each side of the album, which showcases John’s intimate vocal and guitar style, shares a part of Angaiak’s culture and history: Side One is sung in Yup’ik, while the material on Side Two is delivered in English. Both are equally emotional, deeply personal and extremely affecting. Angaiak forged an astute outlook on his region, his country, and the world itself. Upon his return, Angaiak enrolled in the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where he became active in the preservation of his native language as part of the school’s Eskimo Language Workshop.

·       Willy Mitchel.

Willy Mitchell (born Percy Williams; 1953) is a Canadian First Nations musician. Mitchell recorded and toured mostly in the 1970s with his Desert River Band. He co-organized the 1980 Sweet Grass festival in Val-d'Or, Quebec, which gathered Inuit and First Nations musicians from across Canada. Mitchell was born Percy Williams in Malone, New York, in 1953, after his Algonquin and Mohawk parents were turned away from a hospital in Cornwall, Ontario. He was raised in Kitigan-Zibi in southern Quebec by his maternal grandmother. His grandmother gave him the nickname "Willy". In 1968, he started touring northern Quebec with his first band, called the Northern Lights Group. In January 1969, Mitchell was shot in the head by a police officer during an altercation over stolen Christmas lights. Mitchell was originally reported dead by the media. He used the money from a settlement resulting from the incident to buy a Fender Telecaster Thinline guitar. After recovering, he formed the Desert River Band, and began touring and recording. Mitchell wrote the song "Big Police Man" about the experience.

·       Morley Loon.

Morley Loon was a Canadian First Nations musician, from Mistissini  Quebec. Loon played in several groups, including Red Cedar and Kashtin, but was mostly known for his solo work. He mostly wrote and performed in the Cree language, and was a prominent activist for First Nations issues. Morley Loon was the first performer in the Cree language to see significant radio airplay in Canada. His song "N'Doheeno" is featured on the 2014 compilation album Native North America, Vol. 1.

·       Tom Jackson.

Thomas Dale Jackson, OC (born 27 October 1948), is a Canadian-born Métis actor and singer perhaps best known for the annual series of Christmas concerts, called the Huron Carole, which he created and starred in for 18 years. He was the Chancellor of Trent University from 2009 until 2013, and is also known for playing Billy Twofeathers on Shining Time Station.

·       George Leach.

George Leach is a Canadian musician and actor, best known for his work as a lead singer and songwriter. Leach is a Stl'atl'imx from Lillooet, British Columbia.As an actor, Leach has appeared on “This is Wonderland”, “North of 60”, PSI Factor and” La Femme Nikita” he also appeared in the six-part miniseries” Into the West”, as Loved by the Buffalo. He released his first album” Just Where I'm At” in 2000. He subsequently performed at the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, now the Indspire Awards. He won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year in 2014 for his album Surrender.

·       Willie Dunn.

William "Willie" Dunn (August 14, 1941 – August 5, 2013) a Canadian singer-songwriter, film director and politician. Born in Montreal, he was of mixed Mi'kmaq and Scottish/Irish background. Dunn often highlighted aboriginal issues in his work. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Dunn was a singer and acoustic guitarist. He released several full-length albums of recorded music including Willie Dunn (1971), The Pacific (1980) and Metallic (1999).Dunn also composed the song, "Son of the Sun", which Kashtin recorded on their second album Innu. In 2004 Dunn released the album Son of the Sun with sixteen songs (including three live versions).His songs "I Pity the Country", "Son of the Sun" and "Peruvian Dream" are featured on the 2014 compilation album Native North America, Vol. 1.

·       Joey Stylez.

Joey Stylez (born Joseph Laplante) is an aboriginal Canadian hip hop artist based in Vancouver. A member of Moosomin First Nation, Stylez was moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at an early age and raised by his single mother. Lorna Colleen Heiber (born c. 1960) is a Métis Catholic. She was formerly heavily involved in Métis politics, having served as a Métis leader including Acting President of the Métis Nation—Saskatchewan in 2004. Lorna is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal. Dale Gary LaPlante (born c. 1960) is Plains Cree and is active in First Nations and Canadian federal politics. He has worked hand in hand with Jean Chretien, Paul Martin and Phil Fontaine.Joseph Dale Marlin LaPlante (born May 14, 1981), better known for his stage name Joey Stylez is a First Nations Canadian singer-songwriter, rapper, hip-hop artist, First Nations activist, fashion designer. His break came when he was asked to open for 50 Cent in Saskatoon, only one night after his uncle Isho Hana was shot and killed in a drug related killing on Preston Avenue in 2004.

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First Nations Musicians and Native American Musicians There were no borders.

·        • Susan Aglukark.

Susan Aglukark, OC, is an Inuk musician whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with country and pop song writing has made her a major recording star in Canada. Susan Aglukark. Uuliniq Susan Aglukark, OC, singer, songwriter (born 27 January 1967 in Churchill, MB). Susan Aglukark is a Juno Award-winning Inuk singer and songwriter

  Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism.In 1997, she founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding Native Americans. She has won recognition and many awards and honours for both her music and her work in education and social activism.  

  Carlos Nakai

This collection of solo flute pieces from Navajo-Ute musician R. Carlos Nakai is an evocative delight. The album consists of mostly original material, from the composition "Canyon Reverie," to the improvisational "In Media Res," to "Athabascan Song," an arrangement of a traditional song. The latter in particular stands out, with a faster rhythm and more lilting melody than most of the other pieces. There's also "Ancient Dreams," performed on a bone whistle; the instrument almost exceeds the upper range of human hearing, and Nakai occasionally sounds like he's imitating bird calls. A classically trained musician, Nakai blends musical traditions to create a whole that reminds one, on occasion, of Japanese shakuhachi music. 

Alexandro Querevalú

A great artist Alexandro Querevalu brings to us Amerindian music that can easily touch the soul of every human. We know that music is vibrant and on different frequencies, it brings different emotions. An epic place like Promenade in Swinoujscie, Poland, he is performing the theme song from the movie The Last of The Mohicans. The people gathered there are really privileged to witness so much beauty. Alexandro Querevalú was born in Peru of native Amerindians parents. Alexandro plays a large variety of songs, including The last of the Mohicans, El Condor Pasa and many other favourites.

   Alexandro Querevalú

His live performances in different Native American costumes are breathtaking. Alexandro lives in Poland now and gives regular live performances on the promenade in Swinoujscie. He was a contestant on a Talent Show in Poland and also played at the Kuwait City Festival in Kuwait for 2 weeks.

 A Tribe Called Red Sisters

Watch a Tribe Called Red’s ‘Sisters’ Turn Their Day Into a Dance Party

Recent Juno award winners release video from their 'Nations II Nations' debut

Three aboriginal girls prepare for A Tribe Called Red's monthly Electric Powwow rave in Ottawa, just like any other excited young people might: dancing, trying on outfits. Sisters ft Northern Voice

Encouraged by A Tribe Called Red

The three “sisters” are Sarain Fox (Anishinaabe), Aria Evans (mixed race, Mi’kmaq) and Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (Mohawk). They are dancers and actresses.

 Lloyd Cheechoo.

Listen to songs and albums by Lloyd Cheechoo, including "James Bay", "Winds of Change", "Winds of Change" and many more. Free with Apple Music.

A Tribe Called Red

In 2014, the band withdrew from a scheduled performance at the official opening ceremonies of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, citing concerns about the museum's depiction of aboriginal human rights issues.

In 2016, they released LP We Are the Halluci Nation in September. Guest collaborators on the album included Narcy, Yasiin Bey, Lido Pimienta Shad, Tanya Tagaq, Joseph Boyden and Black Bear. The group won the Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award at the Juno Awards of 2017.

Alexis Utatnaq

Music has always been an integral part of Alexis Utatnaq’s life. Born in Chesterfield Inlet, N.W.T., the singer relocated with his family to Baker Lake, Nunavut, to be with relatives. The Inuk singer-songwriter would later create records that would eventually play on the air waves in the Arctic. He has performed at numerous concerts over the years including Nunavut, Yellowknife, Toronto and Ottawa.

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First Nations Musicians and Native American Musicians There were no borders. Part Seven.

Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys

Song: "Modern Rock"This four-member band used its community name.The group played throughout the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, performing mostly to native audiences, including at weddings and festivals

·       Brule

Paul LaRoche, founder and producer of BRULÉ – the award-winning Native American music group, thrilling audiences with a mergence of cultural rock and theatrical instrumentations. Now in their 19th season, their national performances carry the same contagious excitement as Trans -Siberian Orchestra, Celtic Thunder, and Riverdance—but with the emotional impact of the American Indian culture. “It was just as good as the New York-based productions we see and, at times, twice as moving” Bruce R. Miller, Journal staff writer. “The performance was powerful and engaging. “We had a sold out house, and the  patrons have been clamoring for a return visit” David Marty, President, Reif Arts Council and performance attendee, Allen Kirkham “spectacular music and dance experience with an explosion of color and light!”. The group is one of the top-selling Native American adult/rock music groups and has chalked up impressive CD sales (over 1 million worldwide). Their concert ticket sales stand at well over 100,000 since national touring began in 2002. Brulé has released 17 titles in as many years (see discography) and has been named “Group of the Year” three times by the prestigious Native American Music Awards (NAMMYs), earning seven NAMMYs since 2002. Their annual performance schedule takes them extensively throughout the US, touring the casino, performing arts theatres, arenas, corporate and festival circuits.

·       Lawrence Martin

Lawrence Martin was born in Moose Factory, Ont. Although an entertainer, he’s also a politician, and was elected as the first Aboriginal mayor in a municipality outside a First Nations reserve. Martin has incorporated music within his political career to gain supporters and listeners. He currently writes and records music and is planning a series of Nashville recording sessions.

·       The Jerry Cans

The Jerry Cans (Pai Gaalaquatikkut in Inuktitut) are a band from Iqaluit, Nunavut who combine traditional Inuit throat singing with folk music and country music. Their music is largely written in Inuktitut, the indigenous language of the Inuit nat, with lyrics which "reflect the challenges and beauty of life in the Far North". Their 2016 album, Inuusiq/Life, was released on Aakuluk Music, Nunavut's first record label, which the band's members established in 2016 "to support Inuit and Indigenous musicians".

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First Nations Musicians and Native American Musicians There were no borders.

·       Crystal Shawanda.

Crystal Shawanda (born 1983) is a Canadian country music artist. CMT documented her rise to fame in the six-part series Crystal: Living the Dream, which was broadcast in February 2008. Signed to RCA Nashville in 2007, she released her first single, "You Can Let Go", in Canada in January 2008.It was the fastest climbing single on the Canadian Country Singles Chart since Carolyn Dawn Johnson's "Georgia" in 2000, reaching the Top 10 in five weeks. It was released in the United States on February 25th 2008. Shawanda also performed at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2010. Shawanda is Ojibwe from Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve located on Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron. Her surname translates to "Dawn of a New Day"

·       Mishi Donovan.

Mishi Donovan (1964 - 2013) was a Canadian actress, musician, First Nations activist and HIV/AIDS educator. A Chippewa Cree originally from the Turtle Mountain region, she was taken from her birth family in the Sixties Scoop and was raised entirely by Caucasian foster families. In the 1980s, Donovan was a court worker with Native Counselling Services in Edmonton, Alberta, and later became a director of Feathers of Hope, a First Nations HIV/AIDS charity, after her adopted brother Ken Ward came out as HIV-positive and signed to Sunshine Records in 1993 after submitting some demo recordings to the label, and released her debut album. Spirit in Flight in 1995. She followed up with two further albums, The Spirit Within in 1997 and Journey Home in 2000. The Spirit Within won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1998, “Journey Home” was a shortlisted nominee for the same award at the Juno Awards of 2001. Late in her life, Donovan revealed that she had been diagnosed with dystonia, and died in 2013 at age 48.Neuro condition that causes muscles to contract involuntarily and out of proper sequence. About 50% of MSA patients experience dystonia and it tends to manifest in later stages. Starts in your 50s or 60s. 50,000 Americans affected.

    Shingoose

Shingoose was the stage name of Curtis Jonnie.

Born October 26, 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he was a member of the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation. "Silver River", a track he recorded in collaboration with poet Duke Redbird for his 1975 release Native Country, is featured on the 2014 compilation album Native North America, Vol. 1.

·       Crystle Lightning.

MC Red Cloud and Crystle Lightning are L.A.’s subterranean Bonnie and Clyde." The Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards (APCMA) honored the group with recognition for Best Hip Hop Album in November 2012.

Lightning, in the 2006 video game “Prey” voiced Jen, the girlfriend of the game's protagonist, Tommy. Crystle is a First Nations Hobbema Enoch Cree artist.

·       Claude McKenzie.

Claude McKenzie is a Canadian singer-songwriter. An Innu from Maliotenam, he was half of the popular folk music duo Kashtin, the most commercially successful musical group in First Nations history.natHe released his debut solo album, Innu Town, in 1997. Two years later, he was seriously injured in a car accident. He made a recording comeback in 2009 with the album Inniu (meaning "being reborn") with Montreal producer François Lesage who offered McKenzie to re-record this album with his ex-partner of the group Kashtin, Florent Vollant. Lesage also helped McKenzie to write the only French song of the album, "Nous". All other songs are written in Innu, a native language found in Québec, as it was the case with all songs from the three albums issued by Kashtin in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Canadian Indigenous First Nations of Canada and USA.

Many years ago there were no borders for Native Indians it was just land.

Métis in Canada.

The Métis in Canada (/meɪˈtiː/; Canadian French: [meˈt͡sɪs]; Standard French: [meˈtis]; Michif: [mɪˈtʃɪf]) are a group of peoples in Canada who trace their descent to First Nations peoples and European settlers. They represent the majority of those identifying as Métis, though smaller communities also exist in the United States. They are recognized as one of Canada's aboriginal peoples under the Constitution Act of 1982, along with First Nations and Inuit peoples. As of 2011, they number over 451,795. While the Métis initially developed as the mixed-race descendants of early unions between First Nations people and colonial-era European settlers (usually indigenous women and settler men). early mothers were usually Mi'kmaq, Algonquin, Saulteaux, Cree, Ojibwe, Menominee, or Maliseet, or of mixed descent from these peoples. Their unions with European men were often of the type known as Marriage à la façon du pays.