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The Algonquin have no songs.
 

It may sound strange, but in The Invisible Nation, a movie about the Algonquin people in Quebec, the directing duo of Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie used country western songs as the soundtrack for their film.
While there have been some efforts to revive the music in recent years, there is almost no record of their songs. Desjardins said country western has replaced the Algonquin’s traditional forms of music at wedding ceremonies and other rites of passage.
 

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