Musical Interlude: One of the artists I saw this past weekend at the Old Time Music Festival was Jamie Fox (one x), an Indigenous fiddler from Montana, who taught us all a bit about the Old Time Music tradition in Indigenous communities...I mean, they absorbed a lot from us musically as well. She identifies as Métis, meaning a mixture of European and Indigenous cultures and ancestry, although here in the US she's identified as a certain tribe by the government.
Anyway, here's a nice video where she introduces herself and performs a few pieces. Listen and learn.
"White Buffalo," "Cut Knife Hill," and "Empty Canoe," performed by Jamie Fox.