Radford, Ronald Laurie CharlesYoung, Jason Alexander2023-09-152023-09-152023-09-12Young, J. A. (2023). askiw meskocipayowina: nikamon wîskicâk (The Seasons: Whiskey-Jack’s Song): a music composition for wind symphony and Cree drummers, chanters and soloist (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.https://hdl.handle.net/1880/117062https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41905askiw meskocipayowina: nikamon wîskicâk (The Seasons: Whiskey-Jack’s Song) is a cultural-based hybridized composition that is inspired by the musical practices of my complex Cree-Settler heritage. My Indigenous family’s ancestral ties are to the Eeyou community of Quebec. My grandmother attended residential school in Moose Factory. Therefore, askiw meskocipayowina: nikamon wîskicâk is largely inspired by her Mushkegowuk (Moose Cree) upbringing, teachings, and her community members in Moosonee and Moose Factory. It incorporates Cree drummers and solo and group chanters with the contemporary Western wind symphony. I composed this piece entirely while residing in Calgary, Alberta and chose to represent the Nêhiýaw (Plains Cree) people through the language of the text to show my respect and appreciation as a guest among these people that inhabit the neighbouring areas of central and northern Alberta. I feel the result is a composition that incorporates these disparate Indigenous cultures in a way that maintains their integrity and protections in a good way. It is an expression of my view as a person of mixed-Cree-settler heritage and my story.enUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.Indigenous, CompositionMusicdoctoral thesis