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Stevens, from the Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia sings the Beatles’ classic in Mi’kmaq, one of the most common Eastern Algonquian languages spoken by Indigenous people in the area.

McCartney has said “Blackbird” was written because of the civil rights movement and met two of the women who helped inspire the song.

“We would see what was going on and sympathize with people going through those troubles and it made me want to write a song that, if it ever got back to the people going through those troubles, it might just help them a little bit,” he said to an audience at a concert in 2016.

Steven’s gentle cover was made with her high school at the end of April as a part of a United Nations campaign to raise awareness towards the endangerment of Indigenous languages globally.