Book: The World of Indigenous North America by Robert Warrior
Part IV: Aesthetics (pp. 287)
https://books.google.ca/books?id=XQgcBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
“The 2009 Native opera Giiwedin. Written in the Anishinaabemowin, French, and English languages by Spy Dénommé-Welch (Algonquin) and Catherine Magowan, Native music sensibilities were applied to both voice and stringed instruments.”