Ethnic

We start our journey in the central deserts.

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

And today, the hurdy gurdy is used in all sorts of music traditional folk music, dance, contemporary and world music in the U.K., in France, in Spain and in Italy.

The white areas on this map are the places protected from the winter winds.

So we can see the Collect Pond, and Lispenard Marshes back behind.

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

I see it not just as a grave for the Lakota or for the Sioux, but as a grave for all indigenous peoples.

Maybe a timber rattlesnake lived there.

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended

So the first one is these are the bursty words around 1860s slaves, emancipation, slavery, rebellion, Kansas.

Canadian Aboriginal

They were tired of treaties.

Mrs. Jones, she teaches English, and our band teacher, Mr. Janowski.

You fought against your Red Indians?

the inhabited ones first.

Madame Draupadi, on n'est pas feministe, mais ça? Ça!

As a child,

The other thing

(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

When a leading cause of death among new mothers in the first year after childbirth is suicide, that's not acceptable either.

They started by taking the gold away.

I got a native doing a funky chicken here.

(Lepus, levipes, light foot, some think.) What is a country without rabbits and partridges?

Many peoples live in Asia.

Killing the indigenous looks bad.

How advanced was your tribe?

I needed nothing short of a time machine to access them.

All across the boreal, it's home for a huge incredible range of indigenous peoples, and a rich and varied culture.

If you're in Australia, it's mostly aboriginals who are in jail.

It's something to remind us that we are all connected

And music. Oh, such music!

And they're grown from human DNA mixed with the DNA of the natives.

(Music)

Members of that tribe settled along the river.

I am the first musician in my family.

We exist yet.

Well, one of your neighbors called and said they heard a bit of a commotion earlier.

A savage tribe lived there in those days.

Que es? es Dance? es urbana?

And so, with some ketchup, (musical notes) and then I can kind of (musical notes) (Laughter) (Applause)

I swear I hear music. Real music.

You're a tribe!

It's a land known to the Tahltan people and all the First Nations of British Columbia as the Sacred Headwaters, the source of the three great salmon rivers of home, the Skeena, the Stikine and the Nass.

A poor person, a low income person, somebody in Cancer Alley, somebody in Watts, somebody in Harlem, somebody on an Indian reservation, might say to themselves and rightfully so