M’Girl Music is an Indigenous women’s vocal and hand drum ensemble that’s been together for over 20 years. Managed by Renae Morriseau, she has been gifted songs through ceremony and composes hand drum songs in Cree and Saulteaux languages, her families’ language(s). As an interdisciplinary and inter-tribal artist, she has worked in the arts for most of her life. She currently teaches Indigenous film studies at Capilano University’s Indigenous Film program.
The collective of Indigenous women that sing with Renae are from different First Nations. Through loss of land, and the impact of residential schools that minimized Indigenous matrilineal lines, M’Girl celebrates the restoration of cultural practice of storytelling and song with, for and about Indigenous women.
Currently there are eight Indigenous women from Cree, Anishinaabe, St’at’imc, Tsimshian, and Mohawk peoples.
Renae’s hand-drum songs have been licensed to film, television and web series productions and she continues to celebrate Indigenous resurgence practices in reclaiming the joy and love of Indigenous languages, and stories of land, water, food and home.
