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Red River Valley by... um, the Hay River

"Red River Valley" is a traditional folksong that supposedly describes the plight of a Métis woman who falls for an east-coast soldier, member of the 1870 Wolseley expedition sent to put down the Louis Riel-led Red River Rebellion/Resistance... While strange things happen during times of war, this sounds like a story that probably says more about the colonial imagination than it does about any actual Métis person! (You know, a feminized Indigenous other haplessly desiring an indifferent Canadian military man sure fits well with certain attitudes.) Of course, it's also a beautiful song about saying good-bye to someone you love. The folklorist Edith Fowke was the first one to show that “Red River Valley” came from the Northern Red River and not the southern one that runs through Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, as Americans had been blithely assuming for decades. The Hay River (Kátå’odehche to its people, the Dene) drains muskeg in northern Alberta, BC, and the Northwest Territories into Great Slave Lake (Tu Nedhé or Tucho, really) right by the town of Hay River. This was shot a few miles south of the town of Hay River. There's some significant Métis communities farther south along the Hay River (and northern Alberta generally), including some descendants of Red River Métis pushed west by conflict with Canadian colonists. Forced mass relocations of some of these communitie and individuals were still happening as late as the 1960s, and already partially-successful struggles for recognition and land reclamation continue right to the present. ~~~ The sounds are coming from an Art & Lutherie guitar (Quebec), Empress Reverb and Echosystem pedals (Ottawa), and Orange Micro Dark (UK/China). The sounds got captured by a Rode USB mic (Australia/China) going into a phone made for a US company by Chinese workers, which also captured the images. You can find the full lyrics and chords as done here: https://wychwood.xyz/2023/06/28/red-r... More sounds and words: https://wychwood.xyz/