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The Canadian Folk Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year is a special award in Canada. It celebrates the best songwriting by artists who are First Nations or Inuit. These are two of the main Indigenous groups in Canada.

This award is unique because it looks at all the songs on an entire album, not just one song. It honors the overall songwriting talent of the artist for that album. There are also similar awards for songwriters who write in English or French.

The award used to be called the "Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year." In 2018, its name was changed to "Indigenous Songwriter of the Year." This change reflects a more modern and respectful way to talk about these communities.

Award Winners: 2000s

Year Nominee Album Ref
2005
1st Canadian Folk Music Awards
No award presented
2006
2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards
Wayne Lavallee Green Dress
Digging Roots seeds
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
Leela Gilday Sedzé
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
Vince Fontaine, Jay Bodner, Chris Burke-Gaffney (Eagle & Hawk) Sirensong
Violet Naytowhow Wind of the North
Buffy Sainte-Marie Running for the Drum
Tanya Tagaq Auk/Blood

Award Winners: 2010s

Year Nominee Album Ref
2010
6th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Asani Listen
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
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
Don Amero Heart on My Sleeve
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 MacDonald Keep a Fire
Buffy & Larry Surrounded
Vince Fontaine (Indian City) Colors
Jasmine Netsena Take You With Me
Tanya Tagaq Animism
Year Nominee Album Ref
2015
11th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Raven Kanatakta and ShoShona Kish (Digging Roots) For the Light
Miranda Currie Up in the Air
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
Digawolf Great Northern Man
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
Desiree Dorion Tough Street
Lisa Muswagon Buffalo and Rabbits
Cindy Paul The Flight
Julian Taylor, Kinnie Starr, John Parente, Bill Bell Desert Star
2018
14th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Shauit Apu peikussiaku
Tiffany Ayalik, Grey Gritt (Quantum Tangle) Shelter as we go...
Buffy Sainte-Marie Medicine Songs
Dennis Shorty Gucho Hin
Sandra Sutter Cluster Stars

Award Winners: 2020s

Year Nominee Album Ref
2020
15th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Diyet van Lieshout Diyet & the Love Soldiers
Sugar Plum Croxen, Shelley Hamilton, George Elliott Clarke (The Afro-Métis Nation) Constitution
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
Jason and Nadia Burnstick Kîyânaw
A. W. Cardinal Bare Knuckles & Brawn
Riit ataataga
Crystal Shawanda Church House Blues
2022
17th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Chelsey June & Jaaji Omen
David Laronde I Know I Can Fly
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
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
Cynthia Hamar Joint & Marrow
Kyle McKearney A Traveler's Lament
Qattuu Midnight Sun
Geneviève Toupin Maison vent
2025
20th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Alan Syliboy and the Thundermakers Marks on the Ground
Celeigh Cardinal Boundless Possibilities
Jason Burnstick, Nadia Burnstick Made of Sin
Gabrielle Fontaine (Indian City) Tomorrow
Mimi O'Bonsawin Live in Concert
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