The Warumpi Band focuses more on the Aboriginal aspects of the music, rather than the rock sound of Yothu Yindi.
Formal training institutions include the Government sponsored Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts.
Some examples of Canadian Indigenous rock bands or artists include Aysanabee, Breach of Trust, Kashtin, Bruthers of Different Muthers, Burnt Project 1, Digging Roots, Edward Gamblin, The Halluci Nation (formerly A Tribe Called Red), George Leach, Derek Miller, Robbie Robertson, Julian Taylor, Ruby Waters, and Tom Wilson.
Rocola Bacalao integrated Andean rhythms and made in their song-texts references to emblematic indigenous towns, such as Pujilí in Cotopaxi.
Nevertheless, in the 1980s and the early 1990s the rhythm of the social as expressed in Ecuadorian rock was characterized by hopelessness and resistance or even resignation against repression.