Cree Fiddlers at the International Celtic Music Festival

In the centre, David Ratt (Wemindji) and Daryl Pachano (Chisasibi) accompanied by Randy Kakabat, guitar (Wemindji) perform in Montreal at the Celtic International Music Festival, June 2007.

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[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

[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.

[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

[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. 

[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.

[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.

[mcdyke]

wow



[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...

[sailormoonpluto]

ha my name is Cree

[jayhawk555]

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

[drum3433]

GREAT!

[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!!