Sorry! But Cree are spread all accross Canada as well from Labrador to Eastern British-Columbia, they are part of the First-Nations of Canada, not only in United-States. Over 200,000 are in Canada.

As someone who is Cree and also miscogee/Seminole the tribes I think he is trying to say here is our ancestors were raped/murdered and land was stolen and ruined. We are all over the world. Let’s try not to fact check others as we are trying to spread one unified message.

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Merhaba. Greetings turk. From the Cree nation.

MysticxRaven because there idiots that’s why they thumbs dumbthey put thumbs down they don’t understand our culture race ethnicity our aboriginal culture and they don’t understand native drumming

Yorko Campa neta!

gjp u

+brenan6 This is an ancient form of music and celebration, played for all kinds of reasons. This particular occasion is for a Powwow. Powwows are gatherings of Native peoples to share and love their culture, especially dance and music. The singing you hear is half Cree, and half vowel-usage so that people who don't know the language can sing too. That's why you hear a lot of 'ahayah' in these types of sings. The style of singing is specific to Native American peoples and takes a lot of practice to sing like these guys. The songs they sing are ancient and ancestral, or in their belief, given to them by spirits or the Creator or ancestors beyond the grave for some task, like healing or helping their culture survive. Men play the drum (though there are women's drums) and women surround the men in a circle to protect them as women have always done. In most tribes like Cree or any Anishinabe nation, you'll find women are the home-keepers and caretakers and they 'own' the family while men provide. Before they begin drumming, they offer sayma (ojibway for tobacco) to the drum in thanks for its use and in respect for the Creator. Tobacco is one of the four sacred medicines (tobacco, white sage, cedar, and sweetgrass). I'm writing this as a student of primarily Anishinabe learning, most of my knowledge being based in Ojibway teachings. If you have any other questions, do ask.

+brenan6 Also I'd like to add about the drum- the drums are specially handmade for groups and kept by a trusted person, treated like a fellow living being and given a name because the drum has a spirit. We have one here where I go to school, kept by an Ojibway professor which we bring out for our feasts and powwows. Its name is Morning Thunder, which I'm afraid I don't know the Anishinabe words for. But the drum you see in this video also has a name, a keeper, and people who care greatly about it for what it does and what it represents. A drummer could tell you more, but this is what I know.

+Taiylor Wallace I'm only a beginner in Anishinabe - the language that is - I'm just learning the culture. If I'm correct though, the Anishinabe words for Morning Thunder would be gigizhebaawagad amimikiikaa. I would ask the Ojibway proffessor just to be sure :)

I'm Navajo so yeah biggest Indian nation damn when you see the Souixs they are tall as hell.

This music been handed down thousands and thousands of years ago history your ancestors claim they discovered what is the America’s we were her first we discovered the America’s whiteman says he found us in one he did but he found us minding our own business he brang hate slavery rape disease he was kicked out of Europe and came here no where to go my ancestors try to be nice and him stay and he came in by the thousands he brang ammunition he gave us peace treaty half of the peace treaties he broke he tried to destroy our people by boarding schools reservations our language and our way of life we showed the white man how to live on our land north central South America’s he never seen coffee or potatoes yams peanuts deer bear corn carrots tomatoes turkeys pumpkins sunflower seeds man you have a lot to learn we introduced spinach green turnips cilantros mustard cabbage all the different types of beans there are string beans we taught your race how to survive on our land but no one gives my people credit we r different in many ways but at same time we our one people many nations balled up in one fist that’s how we r strong today we r still singing in 21st century your ancestors enslaved a lot of native in Mexico California to build Catholic Churches your ancestors enslaved the African slaves they were in africa minding there own business your ancestors brang hate deceit racism