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- The Crees of James Bay have adopted the music and dance of the Irish and Scottish since the late 1800s through the staff of the Hudson Bay Company, most of who were of Irish and Scottish ancestry. Here is an edited version of a jigging performance on 2004 Year's celebration in Whapmagoostui, Quebec, by a local dance troop. "Soldier's Joy" performed by Cree fiddler Matthew Mukash. Enjoy!!!
Graceful Fast footwork!
Crees in Canada are like what Aztecs were in Mexico
Great stuff
Can you tell me y this dance looks like an Irish dance
This is a Cree community on the northern Quebec coast of James Bay, maybe right in the nook where it becomes Hudson Bay. When the settlers and traders came from Scotland, England and Ireland. They took on Indigenous wives. The settlers brought with them their music (fiddles) and step-dancing
@@buffylouttit7785 took right ? Like took took right?
aint they great ?? crees are quicker and have little diff style which i luv but im part cree too gordy
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Very nice, i like watching these.
Soirée gigue obedjiwan
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God this makes me so happy to see the dancing, esp. elders
Joanne Faye I can do dancing like that
@@julieivillakjones3339hi, I'm just seeing this reply! I can dance like that too 🤩 not quite as good though 😅
Have you any evidence that there was a significant Irish element in the staff of the Hudson's Bay Company? My reading indicates that a very large percentage - 80% in one year - were from Orkney, others were Scots from different regions, and Englishmen - mainly from London and Yorkshire. Because of war, and the possibilities of recruiting cheaper labour north of London, the vast majority of ships sailed up the east coast, picking up staff and supplies along the way, with their last stop being Stromness, in Orkney. No stops in Ireland. I'm not saying an Irish presence was non-existent, but it seems unlikely that it was significant.
Well my great-grandparents did say that there was Irish men, cause they can tell through the accent they were speaking. Scottish had more of a R like "rrr" but the Irish were more sharpened in their words. They said "Far" differently, thats the thing they noticed about the Hudson Bay Company employers. Gotta take the truth from those who have been there and remembered it.
I just asked that!!!
Jae will you ask for me if anyone ran from the roll and ended up in the mountains of Pennsylvania... story told was we are Cree and Blackfoot but blood test said Irish Jew and Scandinavian and Greek... now I know someone that didn’t come up native justice Jew he was Iroquois ... he said I needed an X2 factor test ... any truth ... I see no reason y my mom would lie or Grandmother for being native wasn’t a good thing in people’s eyes
@@sasquatch2011 The Orkney accent is distinctly different from most other Scottish accents. I'd say the "r" is pretty similar to that in some Irish dialects. I've come across evidence of some early mixed Scots and Irish settlement near what is now Winnipeg, but nothing like the Irish settler numbers towards the east coast and in Ontario. And, I repeat, the Hudson's Bay ships normally went via Orkney, not Ireland. I've seen Orcadians and folk from Caithness mistaken for Irish in London because of unfamiliarity with their accent, and, to be blunt, most Americans I met in Ohio thought I was Irish!
@ abcd88808 wheres 'down here'? ... 2004, this is rare man, they didnt stop dancing until the end (Y) thumbs upp
looks kinda like a smoke dance step
Great show!!!
Come to Kuujjuaq!!!
This is sad. The Cree are dancing Irish jig steps no doubt learned in the days of French and English traders, where are their traditional Cree dances, songs and legends. I wonder if they still remember any of them.it looks like another culture lost.
Not at all, our culture is still strong, our songs and legends we carry in our hearts. But the injustice is was hurts us more. We adopted this culture because it seems like our ancestors liked this music. It was new, our lands is still ours, our rights were noticed in the 1970's, we have good homes and our language is still strong. We just adopted other cultures and shared it with ours. So no, our culture is not lost my friend, we're still here.
sharon gonzalez actually I’m a Cree from that village and that’s one of our traditions