Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights are complex and have many different aspects. Gregory Younging ([Cree]2018) provides an overview of Indigenous Customary Laws and writes that they are “intimately intertwined and connected with TK and form what can be viewed as whole and complete, integrated, complex Indigenous knowledge systems throughout the world” (p. 116).

The Métis are well known for their musicality and celebratory nature, seen through jigging and step dancing which is accompanied by fiddle music. Fiddle music is “similar to the culture of storytelling” because “fiddle songs and tunes often have personal meanings for their creator and their creator’s family” (Alberta Métis, Métis Fiddle). Like oral stories, “fiddle tunes” were not “written down” but instead would be “passed down in person from one generation of fiddlers to the next” (