The Canadian Folk Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best songwriting by First Nations and Inuit artists. Unlike many songwriting awards, the nomination is given in consideration of all of the songwriting on a whole album rather than singling out individual songs. Awards are also presented for English Songwriter of the Year and French Songwriter of the Year.
The award was formerly presented as Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year, and was renamed from aboriginal to indigenous in 2018.
| Year | Nominee | Album | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | |||
| No award presented | |||
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards | |||
| Wayne Lavallee | Green Dress | [1] | |
| Digging Roots | seeds | [2] | |
| Don Freed | The Valley of Green and Blue | ||
| Art Napoleon | Miyoskamin | ||
| Laura Vinson | It Reminds Me | ||
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | |||
| Sandy Scofield | Nikawiy Askiy | [3] | |
| Leela Gilday | Sedzé | [4] | |
| Ry Moran | Groundwater | ||
| Karen Donaldson Shepherd (The Crow Girls) | Where the Green Grass Grows | ||
| Laura Vinson | Mossbag Lullaby | ||
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | |||
| No award presented | |||
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | |||
| Don Amero | Deepening | [5] | |
| Vince Fontaine, Jay Bodner, Chris Burke-Gaffney (Eagle & Hawk) | Sirensong | [6] | |
| Violet Naytowhow | Wind of the North | ||
| Buffy Sainte-Marie | Running for the Drum | ||
| Tanya Tagaq | Auk/Blood | ||