FILE--Shane Yellowbird accepts the Chevy Rising Star award during the Canadian Country Music Awards in Regina Monday, September 10, 2007. They're as country as they come — a rodeo veteran with a slowpoke drawl and a gritty-voiced crooner with a honky tonk snarl. But as rising music stars Yellowbird and Crystal Shawanda pursue their dreams of country glory, the aboriginal performers say fears over discrimination have coloured their journey in a white-dominated industry. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Troy Fleece