Jamie Fox is a

Native American music Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous peoples of North America, including Native Americans in the United States and Abori ...

ian of the

Assiniboine The Assiniboine or Assiniboin people ( when singular, Assiniboines / Assiniboins when plural; Ojibwe: ''Asiniibwaan'', "stone Sioux"; also in plural Assiniboine or Assiniboin), also known as the Hohe and known by the endonym Nakota (or Nakoda ...

and

Gros Ventre The Gros Ventre ( , ; meaning "big belly"), also known as the Aaniiih, A'aninin, Haaninin, Atsina, and White Clay, are a historically Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe located in north central Montana. Today the Gros Ventre people are ...

people, who is a well-known performer of the

Métis fiddle Métis fiddle is the style that the Métis of Canada and Métis in the northern United States have developed to play the violin, solo and in folk ensembles. It is marked by the percussive use of the bow and percussive accompaniment (such as spoo ...

tradition of

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...

. Jamie Fox is a member of the Fox family of fiddlers from the

Fort Belknap reservation The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation ( ats, ’ak3ɔ́ɔyɔ́ɔ, lit=the fence or ats, ’ɔ’ɔ́ɔ́ɔ́nííítaan’ɔ, lit=Gros Ventre tribe, label=none) is shared by two Native American tribes, the A'aninin (Gros Ventre) and the Nakoda ...

. She has performed widely in the United States and Europe, where she has collaborated with her husband, Kristian Bugge, a Danish traditional fiddler, and also with old-time fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld. Fox studied with Montana fiddler Marvin "Fatty" Morin and learned his bowing technique.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fox, Jamie Living people 21st-century Native Americans 21st-century violinists American fiddlers Assiniboine people Gros Ventre people Native American musicians North American folk music People from Montana Year of birth missing (living people) People from Fort Belknap Indian Reservation