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Totem: Return and Renewal

Alternate Title
Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gil Cardinal
Concludes the powerful story of the Haisla and their efforts to repatriate a totem pole after 77 years of being in the Swedish Museum. Accompanying Study Guide. Duration: 24:04.
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Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gil Cardinal
Film about the attempt to repatriate the G'psgolox totem pole which was stolen, housed in Sweden and claimed to be the property of the Swedish Government. Accompanying Study Guide. Duration: 70:00.
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The Truman Mound Site, Big Bend Reservoir Area, South Dakota

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert W. Neuman
American Antiquity, vol. 26, no. 1, July 1960, pp. 78-92
Excavation of late Woodland burial mounds, each pit had a single individual and burial offerings. Pottery was of a single type, undecorated.
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Turn the Beat Around

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Melanie Cummings
Herizons, vol. 12, no. 4, Winter, 1999, pp. 24-[?]
Focuses on the teenage girls drum group, Neebin Nodin from Winnipeg, and their commitment to cultural traditions.
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Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1903-04

Alternate Title
25th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1903-04
E-Books
Author/Creator
W. H. Holmes
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by W. H. Holmes The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands by Jesse Walter Fewkes Certain Antiquities of Eastern Mexico by Jesse Walter Fewkes
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Two Kwakwaka'wakw Museums: Heritage and Politics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marie Mauzé
Ethnohistory, vol. 50, no. 3, Summer, 2003, pp. 503-522
Examines two museums with similar goals but different approaches to preserving Kwakwaka'wakw culture and displaying it to the public.
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Two men mapping the medicine wheel

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
unknown
A photograph of two men mapping the medicine wheel at Tipperary Creek. South Saskatchewan River in background. (Tipperary Creek site later included in Wanuskewin Heritage Park)
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View from the Canoe vs. the View from the Ship: The Art of Alliance

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rick Hill
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 141-150
In this conference extract the author explores the different ways that his Haudenosaunee ancestors would have represented their experiences with and perceptions of the first Europeans to arrive in what is now North America.
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Visions on the Rocks

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bruce Bower
Science News, vol. 150, no. 14, October 5, 1996, pp. 216-217
Contends that rock and cave art may offer insights about the trance-induced, supernatural journeys and spiritual sightings of shamans around the world.
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"Vitalizing the Things of the Past": Museum Representations of Native North American Art in the 1990s

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips
Museum Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 1, February 1992, pp. 29-43
Assesses two major museum exhibits as individual projects and as illustrations of broader issues concerning the representation of Native Americans: Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Chiefly Feast: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch at the American Museum of Natural History.0892-8339
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Water Jar Boy: A Petroglyph and Story From La Cienga Pueblo

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Patterson-Rudolph
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, 1990, pp. 1-23
Paper presents a culturally specific perspective, from the aspect of the myth itself, as a guide towards understanding images as metaphors.
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Wave Eaters: Native Watercraft in Canada

Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
[Canadian Museum of Civilization
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada]
Virtual exhibition of kayaks, umiaks and canoes including construction details, conservation process and bibliography.
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What Are Our Expectations Telling Us?: Encounters with the NMAI

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwyneira Isaac
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 574-596
Describes four viewpoints about the National Museum of the Native American (NMAI) garnered through two personal visits and the others through newspaper articles and discussions.
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Windspeaker News Briefs

Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 6, September 2010, p. 9

Outlines three stories: an agreement with Brokenhead Ojibway Nation's chief and Manitoba's minister of conservation to protect petroform sites, an outcry for a public inquiry into the murders of convicted killer Robert Pickton and a request for a ban on the bulldozing of important Native sites without the consent of Ontario First Nations people.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.

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