Starting October 30 and running through November 4, Aboriginal Music Week will go off in Winnipeg, Canada, showcasing all the best in Native American, Inuit, Métis and indigenous music from around the world. That means traditional music like powwow drumming and throat singing, but it also means hip-hop in ancient languages, experimental cello sound and thundering global bass. The only unifying factor is that the music is made by all the people who were in a place before the other people showed up.

In honor of the festival’s fourth year, here’s ten creative natives from around the world. Some of them will be in Winnipeg this coming week. Some of them we just like a lot. 10. Chris Derksen

Canadian cellist Chris Derksen will be in Winnipeg next week to share her genre bending music, which blends classical influences with inspiration from her Cree ancestry. How cool is this video?

Pow.Wow.Wow Cris Derksen Video from Lisa Jackson on Vimeo. 9. DJ Subversivo

This Chilean producer identifies as mestizo with indigenous Mapuche roots. DJ Subversivo told MTV Iggy his psychedelic global bass tracks are inspired by “the need to reconnect the modern man with the vibrations of the earth.” See if this jam does that for you.

8. SlinCraze

SlinCraze is the foremost rapper among the Sami, the indigenous people of Norway and the surrounding region, and he rhymes in traditional languages. Though they have a passion for hip-hop, heavy metal and recreational snowmobile shredding, young Sami people live much as their ancestors did, herding reindeer and rocking traditional tunics.

7. Eyabey

Hip-hop has given a voice and a common language to people from countless cultures and walks of life all over the world. But if the traditional music you grew up with is something arguably sick like Native American powwow drumming, you may as well be like the Ojibway group Eyabey and just stick with that.

6. LightningCloud

Los Angeles hip-hop/electro duo LightningCloud are playing AMW this year. Listen to Crystle Lightning and MC RedCloud elaborate on their tribal party steez.

5. Nive Nielsen

Nive Nielsen is a Greenlandic Inuk singer-songwriter known for her whimsy and her little red ukulele. Her band is called the Deer Children. She is, empirically speaking, the cutest thing ever.

4. Tanya Tagaq

One of the headliners at the festival, Tanya Tagaq is an avant garde/traditional Inuk throat singer. She out-Björks Björk with her superhuman vocalizations and did so on the Icelandic superstar’s album Medúlla. And she gets down with Kronos Quartet. #Swag

3. Samantha Crain

Easier on the ears than Tanya Tagaq, but also a draw at this year’s fest, Samantha Crain’s tender country folk and fragile voice will soften your steely heart. She hails from Oklahoma and is of Choctaw heritage.

2. Yung Warriors

But getting back to hip-hop, aboriginal Australian rappers Yung Warriors represent their people with fierce pride and open for people like 50 Cent and The Game.

1. A Tribe Called Red

Composed of Cuyuga and Ojibway members, A Tribe Called Red (see photo above) has caused a stir in the global bass world with their crazy powwowstep tracks, subversive visuals and inventive DJ sets blending hip-hop, dancehall and tribal elements. The Canadian collective’s Electric Powwow parties are the toast of Ottawa. Catch them at Aboriginal Music Week too.