Cree Fiddlers at the International Celtic Music Festival

[SPS148669]

For the Native Americans trolling on European "Pow-Wow" videos what do you have have to say about this? Native Americans "Copying" European cultures. It goes both ways with Immitation is flattery.

[MuslimCree]

@SPS148669 We are not "copying", its just that most of us are carrying on our Gaelic heritage, but this isn't to say that we abandon our Native American practices. Many of us share both ancestries so we aren't ashamed to practice both cultures.

[mcdyke]

wow



[sailormoonpluto]

ha my name is Cree

[jayhawk555]

look at them "white"people dance...or trying to anyways...ha...awesome stuff

[drum3433]

GREAT!

[Chilihed]

My biggest fear is that this too will be lost with successive generations.

[creeation1977]

ummm...ok . if u say so!

[SPS148669]

Pretty good for Native Americans since most of the tme they dislike white culture while these guys participate in it.

[creebecois]

You will find that alot of the James Bay Cree Indians have some Scottish ancestry as a result of intermarriage in the 18th and 19th centuries during the Fur Trade. The Scottish fiddle and music are just one of the things we adopted into our culture.

[radar200]

if you watch "fiddlers of Jams bay" ,,it's a national film board production,,you'll know it's in the culture of the james bay crees,,they're scottish ancestory of the Crees!!

[WhapmagFiddler]

hey, thats my old buddy on the guitar

[thugindownhere]

cool

[WACHIYA]

Memories ...

[georgejonesfan]

eehyaah!..

look at'em dancers havin' a blast!!

[rdem1988]

Ouwasah. So many memories of wedding dances and traditional festivals! :P Megwach for the upload! Cree people should upload more videos of our cultures! :P

[creeation1977]

square dancing is our culture?...oh! give me a break!!!

[creebecois]

It actually is, it has become part of our evolving culture since we adopted the fiddle from the Scottish. My grandfather playes it, and his grandfather played it, and our people dance to its music. So yeah, it is very much part of our culture now. You may not agree, but take hunting for example; We never used guns before the Europeans came, but we adopted the musket, now today we hunt with the rifle. Cultures always evolve.

[creeation1977]

well...I'm sorry . didn't mean to offend u and your culture .

[creebecois]

Not at all, I took no offence. Don't get me wrong, I was just informing you.

[lucy9359]

@creebecois didn't you get the fiddle from the French in that area...curious as I come from the Chaplue area of Ontario and I know it was the French and the Metis fiddlers sound the same...

[MuslimCree]

@lucy9359 No, I come from the same place and we got it from our Scottish ancestors. If you know the songs you will see that they are Scottish in origin, dating to the Fur Trade era. My great-grandfather was Scottish and my family has carried on the tradition of fiddling to celebrate special occassions.

[lucy9359]

@MuslimCree I don't know the origin I moved from that area but it is where my family began in Canada the white ones any way...if there is anyone who is not mixed race from that area that went back to the fur traders...I can trace my family as far back as the fur traders on my mother's side any how and they were all french and they mixed with the Natives and all of them are basically still that...my father had some Irish blood

[creebabiigurl85]

dats mah buddy derwin pachano on da blue tshirt (dalouwak)

[dave130980]

We were playing "Boil Them Cabbage Down" one of the first tunes i learned from my Dad (Stephen Ratt) and from my late Brother (Steven) who passed away in spring of 93.

This Fottage is dedicated to my late Brother Steven and my late Sister Ellen.

[ndnsuperman2007]

coolness

[DEAG644]

Awesome