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

and how family and community is a place of refuge and strength

been inseparable from the American story all along

endless drills

and elegant interventions in fields often wrought by division and controversy

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