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The Resilience - Hellnback + Lisa muswagon
Hellnback | Lisa Muswagon | Music
Hellnback and Lisa Muswagon are members of the Canadian hip hop music group The Resilience, focusing on the empowerment of Indigenous voices and promoting awareness of Indigenous social issues. This dynamic duo is also a husband-and-wife couple with 4 daughters and two sons, who surround themselves with family and healing from the impacts of intergenerational traumas. The Resilience music offers an Indigenous flare to hip hop music with impactful lyrics of life experiences.
Karmen Omeasoo also known as Hellnback, is from the Samson Cree Nation in Maskwacis, Alberta. He has since relocated in Winnipeg and furthered his solo career releasing the albums “Family Over Everything” and “Fourteen91” which gained a nom nod at the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2019 for Indigenous Artist of the Year. His rap career started at an early age, through inspiration from his older sibling. Hellnback contributed to hip-hop super groups such as Warparty and Team Rezoffical with collaborations from some of Canada’s powerful lyricists. While addressing his own powerful voice, Hellnback was on a kidney journey and received a kidney transplant in June 2025. He is a testimony of his love for hip hop music and Nehiyaw culture and perspective.
Lisa Muswagon, a contemporary hand drum singer has been performing since her father gave her the hand drum at an early age. A member of the Pimicikamak Cree Nation, discovered her love for writing while taking a course in poetry and writing at the university. Her natural ability of storytelling inscribed by her ancestors, led her to follow in her late Moshom’s legacy of storytelling. She released her solo album titled “Buffalo and Rabbits” which tells the story of Wapos (Rabbit) and her journey to seek the round dance. The album earned a nomination at the Indigenous Music Awards and Canadian Folk Music Awards. Watching Hellnback’s career over the years also inspired her to tell stories in a new artform. As a multifaceted artist, researcher, and advocate, it would not be long before she would catch on being mentored by one of Canada’s Indigenous hip-hop legends, her husband Hellnback.
Facing and powering through the tribulations of chronic kidney disease and post kidney transplant life demonstrates the resilience and inspires healing, hope and cultural pride. Along with the opportunity to bridge communities and foster understandings of the journey, as others may experience similarities. Together Hellnback and Lisa Muswagon create impactful music addressing social issues while promoting hope and resiliency. Muswagon also believes the importance of acknowledging and addressing the historical traumas associated with Indian Residential School in Canada, voicing the need for reconciliation and healing efforts and to be led by Indigenous communities’ initiatives themselves.
Indigenous Hip Hop Duo
The Resilience is the dynamic duo of Hip Hop veteran Hellnback and his wife Lisa Muswagon. Together, they blend Indigenous influences with their powerful hip hop sound, creating music that resonates with audiences. Stay tuned as a new album is in the works!
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Discography - Single Releases
Truth Be Told ft Supaman
Orange Shirt Day feat. Sten Joddi and MackSickz
Truth Be Told ft Supaman
Title: Truth Be Told
Released: 2025
Production: D-rec
Pleasure and Pain
Orange Shirt Day feat. Sten Joddi and MackSickz
Truth Be Told ft Supaman
Title: Pleasure and Pain ft Geraldine Shingoose
Released: 2024
Producer: Boogey the Beat
Orange Shirt Day feat. Sten Joddi and MackSickz
Orange Shirt Day feat. Sten Joddi and MackSickz
Orange Shirt Day feat. Sten Joddi and MackSickz
Title: Orange Shirt Day featuring Sten Joddi and MackSickz
Released: 2024
Producer: Boogey the Beat
Cover: Sten Joddi
Land Rights
9 to 5 featuring MackSickz
Orange Shirt Day feat. Sten Joddi and MackSickz
Title: Land Rights
Released: 2023
Producer: DJ Kemo
9 to 5 featuring MackSickz
9 to 5 featuring MackSickz
9 to 5 featuring MackSickz
Title: 9 to 5 featuring MackSickz
Released 2022
Producer: Boogey the Beat
Penimitawe Ota
9 to 5 featuring MackSickz
9 to 5 featuring MackSickz
Title: Penimitawe Ota
Released: 2021
Producer: DJ Shub
Journey
Journey
Journey
Title: Journey
Released: 2021
Production: DJ Shub
Acting Good
Season 1 Episode 10
Comedy Sitcom
2022
Song: Penimitawe Ota
Tracy Toulouse X Sacrd Thndr Ft The Resilience at Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week
What is Orange Shirt Day? What is Truth and Reconcilation?
Orange Shirt Day
Phyllis Webstad, was a child when she had to attend the Indian Residential School. She remembers to this day clearly, how the Indian Residential School removed her clothing on her first day, including the orange shirt her grandmother gave her, which was never returned. The traumas faced by the children, still carry these heavy wounds and ripples to their families. This inspired Orange Shirt Day in Canada.
More than 150,000 children were taken to the Indian Residential Schools, in the US they are called Indian Boarding Schools, where the children attended as young as 6 years old, most of the time missing their language, culture and family bonds which was removed from them. The Government of Canada stripped the "Indian" from the Child with harsh assimilation policies and colonization. Many children never returned home from these schools, launching communities to begin searching for their missing children and unmarked graves across Turtle Island.
Visit the National Truth and Reconciliation to learn more about the history of Indian Residential Schools: https://nctr.ca/education/teaching-resources/residential-school-history/
Orange Shirt Day Society
The Orange Shirt Society is a non profit organization based out of Williams Lake, BC. The society formed in 2015 to create awareness of the intergenerational impacts of Indian Residential Schools while promoting the truth and concept of EVERY CHILD MATTERS. This team works all year around to spread awareness.
Feel free to make a donation to this important organization: https://orangeshirtday.org/support/#publicspacehttps://orangeshirtday.org/support/#publicspace
Truth and Reconciliation
The mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation was to inform all about what happened in Canada at the Indian Residential Schools. The testimonies of survivors who were children were documented through statements, and many began their healing initiatives. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) was birthed from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to provide a place of learning and dialogue while preserving the statements and records of the children.
September 30th is now recognized as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to recognize, those students who went away to school and to the families of those who never made it home. In order for us to allow reconciliation, we must accept and understand the dark history of Canada's truth. It was our parents that went there, our relatives, including ourselves who attended the Day School.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission have 94 calls to action, please learn about them here: https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People Act (UNDRIP)
UNDRIP affirms the right of Indigenous Peoples to create and manage their own affairs and is a tool to lay out the rights of the Indigenous Peoples around the world. These can include important instruments such as declarations, conventions and treaties that are intended to define and uphold Indigenous Human Rights in International Law. This also entails the protection and preserving Indigenous cultures and languages. To learn more, please visit the website to learn how this impacts you.
Read the document here and save it to your files: https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf