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Jeremy Dutcher is a classically-trained Canadian Indigenous tenor, composer, musicologist, performer and activist. who currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted for his album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, which won the 2018 Polaris Music Prize.

A Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) member of the Tobique First Nation in North-West New Brunswick, Dutcher studied music and anthropology at Dalhousie University. His musical education as an operatic tenor originally centered around the Western classical canon, and later grew to encompass the traditional songs of his community. He recorded Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa following a research project on old archival recordings of traditional Maliseet songs at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, many of which are no longer being passed down to contemporary Maliseet youth. Many of the album's songs also sample the original recordings. Dutcher was encouraged to study these traditional songs by a Wolastoqiyik elder, teacher, and song carrier named Maggie Paul. A recording of Maggie Paul's voice is heard on one of the tracks of Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa stating "when you bring the songs back, you're going to bring the people back, you're going to bring everything back."

Dutcher identifies as two-spirit.

Discography

 * Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (2018)

Indigenous Activism
Dutcher aims to preserve both Wolastoq culture and language through his music, and inspire Indigenous youth to think about the importance of language. When asked about his decision to record in his native Wolasktoq language, Dutcher stated "it’s less about asking people to learn a new language and more about disrupting the bilingual Anglo-centric Canadian music narrative. Up until this point, why have there been no popular records in my language?"

LGBTQ2S+ Activism
Jeremy Dutcher is currently responsible for Development Coordination and Aboriginal Outreach at Egale Canada, which is currently the country's only national LGBT human rights organization.

The intersection of identifying as both indigenous and two-spirited allows Dutcher to speak out on the indigenization of queer spaces. In the Two-Spirit Roundtable project he speaks on the lack of gendered pronouns in the Maliseet language, and advocates for a "less western" way of thinking about gender.