Here are the artists nominated for the 2019 Indigenous Music Album Juno

The Juno Award nominations are out, and five artists received nods forIndigenous Music Album of the Year.

• The Ballad of the Runaway Girl
  Elisapie
• Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
  Jeremy Dutcher
• Standing in the Light
  Leonard Sumner
• Nitisanak - Brothers and Sister
  Northern Cree
• The Average Savage
  Snotty Nose Rez Kids

Leonard Sumner, whoisAnishinaabefromLittle Saskatchewan First Nationin Manitoba, said he was grateful to be nominated.

"I definitely appreciate being in the presence of other great Indigenous artists," he said.

"This category is just as strong as the other more mainstream nominations because we have Polaris Prize winners and nominees, Grammy nominees within our category and I feel very honoured to be considered."

It's his first Juno nomination, and he tweeted words of encouragement to those who didn't get a nomination.

"I know what it feels like not to get nominated," he said.

"The first time I applied in 2013 or 2014,I didn't get nominated. It was heartbreaking back thenbut I kept working on my music."

The Ballad of the Runaway Girl is folk-pop singer and songwriterElisapie's return to music after six years. Sheis Inuk from Salluit in northern Quebec and is currently based in Montreal. It'sher secondJuno nomination;in2005 she won Aboriginal Recording of the Year for her album Taima.

"This is my fourth album, so there's a lot more experience and a lot more humbling. The work seems to be getting more and more beautiful, and I'm just really grateful being among such great artists," she said.

"The previous album was a lot more pop and now this is my most 'back to the roots'album. It's a lot more raw and about emotion than the performance aspect."

The list of accolades is growing for Jeremy Dutcher. The2018 Polaris Prize winner is also up for five nominations for the 2019 East Coast Music Awards. Dutcher is WolastoqewfromTobique First Nation in New Brunswick.

Hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids from the Haisla Nation in B.C. have been making waves in the Indigenous music scene since their first self-titled record. Their sophomore albumThe Average Savage was alsoshortlistedfor the 2018 Polaris Prize.

This year marks the third Juno nomination for thepowwow drum and singing group Northern Cree from Maskwacis, Alta., on top of their six Grammy nominations.

They were previously nominated in 2007 forStay Red and won for Classical Album of the Year- Large Ensemble for thealbumGoing Home Star - Truth and Reconciliation, a collaboration withSteve Wood, TanyaTagaq and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

The Indigenous Music Album of the Year award,which is presented byAPTN, will be announced on March 17.The awards ceremonywill be broadcast live across Canada on CBC-TV and CBC Radio, and will be live streamed atcbcmusic.ca/junos.