Canadian Folk Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year

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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.

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The award was formerly presented as Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year, and was renamed from aboriginal to indigenous in 2018.

2000s

YearNomineeAlbumRef
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

2010s

YearNomineeAlbumRef
2010
6th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Asani Listen [7]
Eagle and Hawk The Great Unknown
Wayne Lavallee Trail of Tears
Brenda MacIntyre Medicine Song
Tom Racine Three Mile Junction
2011
7th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Vince Fontaine Songs for Turtle Island
Don Amero The Long Way Home [8]
Robert Davidson, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson New Journeys
Janet Panic Samples
Kristi Lane Sinclair I Love You
2012
8th Canadian Folk Music Awards
No award presented
2013
9th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Nancy Mike (The Jerry Cans)Nunavuttitut [9]
Don Amero Heart on My Sleeve [10]
Vince Fontaine (Indian City)Supernation
Diem Lafortune Beauty and Hard Times
Kristi Lane Sinclair The Sea Alone
2014
10th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Amanda Rheaume, John MacDonaldKeep a Fire [11]
Buffy & Larry Surrounded [12]
Vince Fontaine (Indian City)Colors
Jasmine Netsena Take You With Me
Tanya Tagaq Animism
2015
11th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Raven Kanatakta and ShoShona Kish (Digging Roots)For the Light [13]
Miranda Currie Up in the Air [14]
The Jerry Cans Aakuluk
Buffy Sainte-Marie Power in the Blood
Laura Vinson and Free Spirit Warrior
2016
12th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Twin Flames Jaaji and Chelsey June [15]
Digawolf Great Northern Man [16]
Nadia Gaudet and Jason Burnstick Dream Big, Little One / Fais de beaux rêves, petit ange
William Prince Earthly Days
Amanda Rheaume Holding Patterns
2017
13th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Twin Flames Signal Fire [17]
Desiree Dorion Tough Street [18]
Lisa Muswagon Buffalo and Rabbits
Cindy Paul The Flight
Julian Taylor, Kinnie Starr, John Parente, Bill BellDesert Star
2018
14th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Shauit Apu peikussiaku [19]
Tiffany Ayalik, Grey Gritt (Quantum Tangle)Shelter as we go... [20]
Buffy Sainte-Marie Medicine Songs
Dennis Shorty Gucho Hin
Sandra Sutter Cluster Stars

2020s

YearNomineeAlbumRef
2020
15th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Diyet van Lieshout Diyet & the Love Soldiers [21]
Sugar Plum Croxen, Shelley Hamilton, George Elliott Clarke (The Afro-Métis Nation)Constitution [22]
Jenelle Duval, Danielle Benoit, Stacey Howse (Eastern Owl)Qama’si
Joshua Haulli Aqqut
Mike Paul Origine
2021
16th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Leela Gilday North Star Calling [23]
Jason and Nadia Burnstick Kîyânaw [24]
A. W. Cardinal Bare Knuckles & Brawn
Riit ataataga
Crystal Shawanda Church House Blues
2022
17th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Chelsey June & Jaaji Omen [25]
David Laronde I Know I Can Fly [26]
Laura Niquay Waska Matisiwin
Phyllis Sinclair Ghost Bones
Morgan Toney First Flight
2023
18th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Amanda Rheaume The Spaces in Between
Berk Jodoin Half Breed [27]
ShoShona Kish, Raven Kanatakta Polson-Lahache Zhawenim
Kyle McKearney Down-Home
Adrian Sutherland When the Magic Hits
2024
19th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Kaeley Jade Wiebe Turpentine [28]
Cynthia Hamar Joint & Marrow [29]
Kyle McKearney A Traveler's Lament
Qattuu Midnight Sun
Geneviève Toupin Maison vent

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