In the wake of the recent National Indigenous Day and leading towards the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation, it's high time to tune our ears to the music from our First Nations since they've been around this land for myriads of years. The Indigenous music scene has become very front-of-mind as of late, so we'll have modern selections plus some vintage cuts, all with powerful voices that aren't heard regularly in the mainstream.

  1. Miss Christie Lee: Experience (2011) self-released
  2. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani: Closed Circuit (FRKWYS Volume 13: Sunergy, 2016) RVNG INTL
  3. Mobb Deep: Survival of the Fittest (The Infamous, 1995) Loud/RCA
  4. Sunday Brunch: Midsummer Night (Midsummer 12", 1999) Svek
  5. Children of Alice: Invocation of a Midsummer Reverie (Children of Alice, 2017) Warp
  6. Diana: Born Again (Perpetual Surrender, 2013) Paper Bag/Jagjaguwar
  7. !!!: Must Be the Moon (Myth Takes, 2007) Warp
  8. Thievery Corporation: Saudade (Saudade, 2014) Eighteenth Street Lounge
  9. Thievery Corporation: Shadows of Ourselves (The Mirror Conspiracy, 2000) Eighteenth Street Lounge
  10. Big Evil: Toilet Dough Metro Source (Applebine, 2016) Postmodern
  11. Big Evil: Marley's Mellow Mood (Applebine, 2016) Postmodern
  12. Mystery Machine: Pronto (Western Magnetics, 2012) Sonic Unyon
  13. Needles//Pins: Out of This Place (Out of This Place 7", 2013) La-Ti-Da
  14. Burial: Beachfires (Subtemple 12", 2017) Hyperdub
  15. Gord Downie: Secret Path (Secret Path, 2016) Arts & Crafts
  16. Willie Wright: Indian Reservation (Telling the Truth, 1977) Hotel
  17. Don Muro: Dakota Burial Ground (Synthesizer Pop for a New Age: 1974-1978, 2017) Flannelgraph
  18. Industrial Priest Overcoats: Highway of Tears (Corrupt Files, 1986?) self-released
  19. A Tribe Called Red: Tanto's Revenge [w.Chippewa Travelers] (Nation II Nation, 2013) Pirates Blend
  20. A Tribe Called Red: Sweet Milk Pop (Nation II Nation, 2013) Pirates Blend
  21. Tanya Tagaq: Erie Changys (NOISE, 2016) Williams Street
  22. Poplar Hill Development School: Down at the Cross [Cree version] (My Northern Home, 1972) self-released
  23. The Fire This Time: Praise Creation Dub (Still Dancing on John Wayne's Head, 1998) Filter
  24. Kinnie Starr: Devil's Claw (Learning 2 Cook, 1994) Violent Inch
  25. Buffy Sainte-Marie: Poppies (Illuminations, 1970) Vanguard
  26. Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys: Modern Rock (Native North America: Volume 1 - Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country 1966-1985, 2014) Light in the Attic
  27. Sikumiut: Sikumiut (Native North America: Volume 1 - Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country 1966-1985, 2014) Light in the Attic
  28. Willie Thrasher: Wolves Don't Live by the Rules (Spirit Child, 1981) Boot
  29. Willie Dunn: Peruvian Dream, Part 2 [w.Jerry Saddleback] (Native North America: Volume 1 - Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country 1966-1985, 2014) Light in the Attic
  30. Jim Boyd & Sherman Alexie: Treaties (Smoke Signals OST, 1998) TVT Soundtrax
  31. The Bulgarian Voices "Angelite": Fly, Fly My Sadness [w.Huun-Huur-Tu, Sergey Starostin & Mikhail Alperin] (Fly, Fly My Sadness, 1996) JARO Medien/Shanachie
  32. Gypsophilia: Boo Doo Down (Night Swimming, 2015) Forward Music
  33. Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox: Black Hole Sun [w.Haley Reinhart] (Squad Goals, 2016) self-released

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