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TheIndigenous Music Awards, formerly called theCanadian Aboriginal Music Awards^[1] and theAboriginal Peoples' Choice Awards,^[2] is an annualCanadian music award, given out toIndigenous people who are in the music industry.^[2]

The Indigenous Music Awards receives financial support of theDepartment of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Online Strategy. The ceremony is broadcast on television by theAboriginal Peoples Television Network.

In 2014Iceis Rain became the first openlytwo-spirit person to perform at the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards.^[3]

In 2019, severalInuit artists, includingTanya Tagaq andKelly Fraser, boycotted the awards over accusations ofcultural appropriation.^[4] One of the award nominations in the Best Folk Album category that year was given toConnie LeGrande, aCree artist fromSaskatchewan whose album incorporatedthroat singing; however, as LeGrande had performed the throat singing herself rather than hiring an Inuk collaborator, she was accused of appropriatingInuit culture.^[5] LeGrande, for her part, stated thatthroat singing is not unique to Inuit culture, and that she had not tried to perform in the Inuit style.^[6] 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.^[7]

• Indigenous Canadian personalities
• Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year
• Indspire Awards

• Indigenous Music Awards (article fromThe Canadian Encyclopedia)

• Indigenous Canadian music awards
• Lifetime achievement awards

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• Short description matches Wikidata