{"id":6232,"date":"2019-11-11T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/?post_type=focus&p=6232"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:33:38","slug":"maku-music","status":"publish","type":"focus","link":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/maku-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Maku Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c<\/span>Music is the only universal language,<\/p>\n

the only one that is understood and spoken<\/p>\n

in each of the 195 countries on this planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomson Highway<\/p>\n

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Few people on the other side of keechigamaak<\/em>, \u201cthe big water\u201d as the Eeyou call the Atlantic Ocean, are aware of the Indigenous musical effervescence in the Francophone environment in Kanata (Canada). Ten First Nations occupy the K\u00e9beq (Quebec). They are the Innu, Eeyou, Atikamekw, Mi\u2019qmakw, Waban A\u2019kis, Wolastoqiyik, Anishnaabes\/Algonquins, Naskapi, Kanien\u2019ke: Akas and Wendats. In addition to the 700,000 First Nations, there are 13,000 Inuit from Nunavik in the North.<\/p>\n

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After contacts that led to territorial dispossession and a quasi-cultural genocide, this is an era of affirmation marked by political and institutional changes. Throughout gatherings in Indigenous territories and on urban stages, a dynamic artistic universe vibrates. Its roots, spread by talented Indigenous musicians, create planetary nomads, moving everywhere on the back of Y\u00e4ndiawish<\/em>, the great turtle, Mother Earth.<\/p>\n

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