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Cikwes
Cikwes is the stage name of Connie LeGrande, a Cree musician from Canada. She is most noted as a Juno Award nominee for Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023 for her 2022 album Kâkîsimo ᑳᑮᓯᒧᐤ. A member of the Bigstone Cree Nation, she is based in Edmonton, Alberta. LeGrande released Isko, her debut album as Cikwes, in 2018. The album was nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2019 Indigenous Music Awards; however, it faced controversy when several musicians, including Tanya Tagaq, Kelly Fraser and A Tribe Called Red, pulled out of the awards over allegations that Legrande had committed cultural appropriation by performing Inuit throat singing on the album. LeGrande, for her part, noted that throat singing is not unique to Inuit culture, but in fact has numerous forms and styles in different cultures around the world, and asserted that she had not tried to perform in the Inuit style. Lisa Meeches, the director of the awards, faced further criticism when she stated that she considered it impossible for Indigenous cultures to appropriate each other. Despite calls for her nomination to be rescinded, the awards did not do so.
Article summary
Cikwes is the stage name of Connie LeGrande, a Cree musician from Canada. She is most noted as a Juno Award nominee for Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023 for her 2022 album Kâkîsimo ᑳᑮᓯᒧᐤ. A member of the Bigstone Cree Nation, she is based in Edmonton, Alberta. LeGrande released Isko, her debut album as Cikwes, in 2018. The album was nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2019 Indigenous Music Awards; however, it faced controversy when several musicians, including Tanya Tagaq, Kelly Fraser and A Tribe Called Red, pulled out of the awards over allegations that Legrande had committed cultural appropriation by performing Inuit throat singing on the album. LeGrande, for her part, noted that throat singing is not unique to Inuit culture, but in fact has numerous forms and styles in different cultures around the world, and asserted that she had not tried to perform in the Inuit style. Lisa Meeches, the director of the awards, faced further criticism when she stated that she considered it impossible for Indigenous cultures to appropriate each other. Despite calls for her nomination to be rescinded, the awards did not do so.
Key claims
- release date: 2018 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the release date is "2018". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
Bibliography
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346036762
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