Celebrated Canadian musician, author, and visual artist Tom Wilson (Tehoháhake) announces the release of his new single “We Live In Dreams,” co-written with award-winning journalist, storyteller, and filmmaker Tanya Talaga.
The song is featured in the powerful new documentary ‘Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising’ (trailer here), directed by Shane Belcourt and produced by Talaga’s company Makwa Creative. The film features an original score composed and performed by Tom Wilson and his son Thompson Wilson, marking a continued father–son collaboration that blends emotional ambient depth with musical craft. Audiences experienced the documentary and heard the full score for the first time when the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
“We Live In Dreams” captures the spirit of the documentary’s message—celebrating Indigenous resilience, identity, and the strength of community—while also standing alone as a poignant musical statement from one of Canada’s most compelling voices.
Listen on Spotify here:
“We are here to give everything we’ve got to honour the warrior hearts who have dodged bullets, cut through razor wire and thrown their lives on the line to free the spirit of our people.
We are here to create art to fight the hate and the violence towards our people that does not mingle in the news cycle and has conveniently escaped our history books.
We are here to tell the truth because it’s too easy to listen to lies.
We are here to stand for love and we are here to win with love.”
– Tom Wilson Tehoháhake
We Live In Dreams
(Tom Wilson / Tanya Talaga)
© 2025 Sony Music Publishing Canada / SOCAN
Produced by Tom Wilson and Gary Furniss
Recorded and Mixed by Gary Furniss at The Stonehouse
Tom Wilson – vocal
Jesse O’Brien – piano
ABOUT TOM WILSON (Tehoháhake):
Tom Wilson is a multi–JUNO Award-winning musician (Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Lee Harvey Osmond, Junkhouse), bestselling author (‘Beautiful Scars’), and acclaimed visual artist. His work reflects his Mohawk heritage and his lifelong dedication to truth-telling through art, music, and story.
ABOUT TANYA TALAGA:
Tanya Talaga is an Anishinaabe journalist, author, filmmaker, and storyteller known for her groundbreaking work in Indigenous narratives, including the bestselling books ‘Seven Fallen Feathers’ and ‘All Our Relations’ and the Canadian Screen Award-winning docuseries ‘The Knowing’. She is the founder of Makwa Creative, dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices.
ABOUT THE FILM:
In 1974, a courageous group of Anishinabeg youth staged one of the first armed land-back occupations since the 1885 North-West Rebellion. Led by Louis Cameron, an Indian Residential School Survivor and founder of the Ojibway Warriors Society, the occupation lasted nearly 40 days and included members of the American Indian Movement. Their actions culminated in Ottawa as part of the Native Caravan, which ended on Parliament Hill after police violently intervened in their peaceful demonstration. Only eight minutes of footage exist from this occupation, but ‘Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising’ unearths and restores the buried history of this moment.