Finding Lessons in Hip Hop: How Hip Hop (Helped to) Educate Four Métis Youth

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https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/antistasis/article/download/29324/1882524516

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2019

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There exists a common essentialized discourse about Indigenous peoples in Canada that has communities frozen in time, leaving Métis culture represented through sashes, jigging, and the fur trade. However, across the country, Métis youth are expressing themselves through hip hop culture. This article explores the impacts that being involved in hip hop culture, particularly the creation of hip hop, can have for the Métis young adult participants and the implications for education. It asks how hip hop culture and hip hop pedagogies can have a stimulating effect on Métis students’ educational experiences.