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2007 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards Winners 

• BEST SONGWRITER - Cheryl Bear for The Good Road

• SINGLE OF THE YEAR - Cheryl Bear for Hey Cuzzin’

• BEST NEW ARTIST - Cheryl Bear

• ABORIGINAL ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR - Shane Yellowbird

• BEST COUNTRY CD - Shane Yellowbird for Life Is Calling My Name

• BEST BLUES CD - Indigenous for Chasing The Sun

• BEST ROCK CD - Derek Miller for The Dirty Looks

• BEST FIDDLE CD - Darren Lavallee for Backroads Fiddlin

• BEST FOLK/ACOUSTIC CD - Mary Youngblood for Dance With The Wind

• BEST RAP OR HIP HOP CD - 7th Generation for The Answer

• BEST GROUP OR DUO - Reddnation for Now Or Never

• BEST ALBUM COVER DESIGN - The Boyz for One More

• BEST GOSPEL CD - Yvonne St. Germaine for On My Way to Heaven

• BEST HAND DRUM CD - Red Bull for Ami Nicimos

• BEST INSTRUMENTAL CD - David R. Maracle for Sacred Healing

• BEST INUIT TRADITIONAL CD - Pamyua for Drums of the North

• BEST MUSIC VIDEO - Shane Yellowbird for Pickup Truck

• BEST POW WOW CD - CONTEMPORARY - The Boyz for One More

• BEST POW WOW CD - TRADITIONAL (ORIGINAL) - High Noon for Generations

• BEST PRODUCER OR ENGINEER Kray Z Kree for REZalationzzz...

• BEST ABORIGINAL MUSIC BY NON ABORIGINAL - Little Hawk for Home And Native Land

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From CBC News ...

Yellowbird, Bear dominate at Aboriginal Peoples Choice awards
November 4, 2007

Fast-rising Alberta country singer Shane Yellowbird tied with British Columbia singer-songwriter Cheryl Bear to win the most trophies at the second annual Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards in Winnipeg.

A Cree from Hobbema, Alta., Yellowbird captured best country CD for Life is Calling My Name, best music video for Pickup Truck and aboriginal entertainer of the year during the ceremony at the MTS Centre on Friday night.

Alberta's Shane Yellowbird released his debut album in 2006, hitting the charts with the single Pickup Truck.

Bear, who is from the Nadleh Whut'en First Nation in B.C.'s Central Interior, captured best songwriter, single (Hey Cuzzin'!) and best new artist. Bear did not attend the ceremony.

Yellowbird had also nabbed the most awards, three, at the inaugural gala in 2006. It has been a stellar year for the singer, who had five nominations for the 2007 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. He got the rising star trophy.

Yellowbird thanked family and fans and brought his band onstage.

"These are the guys who put up with me for the last two years, putting up with all my pranks and all my jokes: they stood by me," he told the crowd of 5,000 screaming fans.

The awards, with 20 categories, are sponsored by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) and winners are chosen through online voting. Both Canadian and American acts are eligible to be nominated.

Other winners include the group Indigenous, whose Chasing the Sun won for best blues album.

"We're from South Dakota so it's great to see this here," said Indigenous front man Mato Manji. "I want to thank my family, my wife and my kids, for putting up with me for so long."