As she has progressed in the first-of-a-kind Métis fiddling class at the University of Manitoba school of music, she’s found the tunes are helping to carry her.

Alexson, a graduate student in Indigenous studies, said Tuesday that when she’s stuck writing her thesis on the inherent leadership systems of the Plains Cree, or feeling “a little off” after researching colonial records, she grabs her bow and draws it across the strings.

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