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- ↑ "Aboriginal youth turning to hip hop". Brandon Sun, via Newspaper Archives. November 27, 2002 - Page 7
- ↑ "Rap goes native". Medicine Hat News, via Newspaper Archives May 09, 1997 - Page 3
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- ↑ John W. Troutman (14 June 2013). Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 253–. ISBN 978-0-8061-5002-4.
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