Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

One thing before we start the show.

I want to let you know about a special interview you'll hear at the end of this episode.

It's with a host of a brand-new podcast called ArtCatex, the Architects of Art.

The cool thing is this show is hosted by Director X and Tash Critchlow, two of the biggest music video directors on the planet. These guys are

responsible for game-changing videos from artists like Drake and Coldplay and Kendrick Lamar and so many

more. Hope you enjoyed the discussion. I sure did. That's coming up at the end of this episode.

All right, let's get on with things. Over the last decade, there have been some very, very long

overdue attempts at reconciliation with the First Nations and Indigenous peoples of North America.

Now, there's still a very long way to go, but at least the process has begun.

The treatment of indigenous people makes for some really ugly history. But it has also been

enlightening in positive ways. For example, we now have been learning more about First Nations

music and the role people who identify as Native Canadians and Americans

have played in the world of rock.

Some are full-fledged First Nations people.

Others have at least some Native blood.

Some are well known, and others have been hiding in plain sight.

And I think it's time that we go through some of these contributions.

This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Krox.

That's a tribe called Red with a 2016 single entitled Stadium Pow Wow.

A tribe called Red is based in Ottawa and has included members of Six Nations of the Grand River,

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