1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years, by Status/Non-Status

1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years

by Status/Non-Status

supported by

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$5 CAD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited Edition 12" EP features musical program on Side A and graphic etching on Side B. Released in collaboration with Grizzlar Records.

Includes unlimited streaming of 1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 7 days

6 remaining

Purchasable with gift card

$14 CAD or more

1.	Find A Home 04:22	buy track
2.	Genocidio 03:50	buy track
3.	Untitled Travelogue 00:32	buy track
4.	Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy 04:54	buy track
5.	500 Years 01:21	buy track

about

Status/Non-Status is the new name for the ongoing musical work of Anishinaabe community worker Adam Sturgeon (Nme’) and his longtime collaborators (fka Whoop-Szo). The band spent a decade carving a path through Canada’s DIY scene before leveling up thanks to 2019’s acclaimed long player Warrior Down (You’ve Changed Records). This album confronted Sturgeon’s complex family history and identity and was long listed for the Polaris Music Prize among numerous other accolades. Today, the band emerges renewed, with more stories to share …

Adam is ‘non-status’ as defined by the Canadian government. Adam’s grandfather Ralph made the difficult decision to enfranchise in order to support himself and his family by joining the Armed Forces. Enfranchisement was the government’s term for the legal process of turning in one’s Status Card, terminating one’s Indian Status, and becoming instead a Canadian citizen. It was a pillar of the government’s assimilation policy and a requirement for any Indigenous person who wished to enlist.

In the name of providing a better life for himself and his family, Ralph was required to forsake his Anishinaabe roots, an all-too-common experience for Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island. Acts of colonial violence such as enfranchisement, the residential school system, and the Indian Act have resulted in disconnection amongst generations of Indigenous people from their communities, languages, land, and identities. Today, new voices are rising up and — through acts of reclamation via art, language, music, and community — taking back spaces that have been dominated by settler culture for so many years.

Who is native enough? Who ‘counts’ as Indigenous, and who does not? These questions swirl through the Canadian arts discourse today, impacting every medium and revealing fundamental inadequacies within our current identity-defining systems. For Adam, the proof is in the work; his commitment to telling his family’s story with integrity and truth informs every aspect of his music and his life. Now a father to his own young son, it is the future that allows Adam to dig further into his roots.

“When we tell stories, we have a responsibility to tell the truth. Do the necessary work to earn trust. Share your experience as one voice within a greater circle … and find a home.”

credits

released May 28, 2021

license

about

Status/Non-Status London, Ontario

Sludge/Grunge/Psych/Folk/Post/Indigenous

statusnonstatus.com

contact / help

Contact Status/Non-Status

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Status/Non-Status, you may also like:

Sewn Back Together
by OMBIIGIZI

supported by 25 fans who also own “1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years”

Saw these guys open for Broken social scene in Toronto. Beautiful souls they are deeper than I realized. justbeej
go to album
I Thought Of You
by Julie Doiron

supported by 23 fans who also own “1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years”

I was not expecting this to be as energetic as it is. The blistering first song hooked me and made me a new fan. Art Fin
go to album
Forever Love's Fool (Feat. Danny Carey)
by Daniel Romano's Outfit Feat. Danny Carey

supported by 20 fans who also own “1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years”

Someone: I bet you can’t write an actually-good 20+ minute prog rock opus. Daniel Romano: Watch me. Charlie Moonbeam
go to album
Ursa Major Moving Group
by Ursa Major Moving Group

Combining dreamy atmospheres, intricate melodies & captivating songwriting, “Ursa Major Moving Group" is a mesmerizing musical experience. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 12, 2023
go to album
6
by Tylo

Dreamy doom-pop for the spooky season from Seattle's Tylo. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 11, 2022
go to album
Pity Boy
by Mal Blum

The New York songwriter appeals with sunny power chords, but it’s the direct vulnerability that get you in the end. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jul 25, 2019
go to album
Theory Of Ice
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

supported by 20 fans who also own “1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years”
go to album