Indigenous Renaissance

Question 1

Cultural Appropriation

Answer 1

Taking a cultural identity for which you do not have long-term lived experience, and for which you do not understand the meanings and significance of the culture, and presenting that culture
as your own.

Question 2

Authenticity

Answer 2

For Tanya Tagaq, “Art is best expressed when you are expressing your own reality, your own thoughts, feelings and culture.”

Question 3

Wolastoqey

Answer 3

Language from Wolastoq nation in eastern Canada.
(Example: Jeremy Dutcher’s album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa is
sung in Wolastoqey)

Question 4

Bridge People

Answer 4

A term used by Jeremy Dutcher to describe people who grow
up in an environment where multiple cultures are present. Bridge people can
become a conduit through which multiple cultures can communicate.

Question 5

Inuit throat singing:

Answer 5

A style of singing where traditionally two women or
girls stand face to face and breathe short rhythmic patterns, which are inhaled and exhaled, voiced and unvoiced, as a call-and-response duet. (Example: Tanya Tagaq sings in this style as a solo vocalist)

Question 6

Ostinato

Answer 6

A repeating rhythm (usually not from the drums) which lasts
throughout one or more sections of a song as a musical foundation to which other musical elements are added. (Example: beginning of Jeremy Dutcher’s song “Ultestakon”)