Art & Colonization

Discusses the uniqueness and specificities of Aboriginal art and the significance of traditional and contemporary art practices on Aboriginal communities and more broadly in Canada and internationally.

Discusses how early drawings relate to contemporary Islander art and to regional artistic traditions, reaffirming Aboriginal identity.

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2012.

American Studies Program Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2003.

Art and Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2001.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 2013.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Victoria, 2006.

Examines an exhibit Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life along the North Pacific Coast to evaluate how it is perceived and promoted by Native American staff and community consultants, and non-Native American staff at the Museum.

Discusses various concepts of artistic expression in Aboriginal performance art.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 2001.

Uses the art of Arthur Renwick as an illustration of the environment, attitudes and efforts to resist colonization of other Aboriginal artists, including Alfred Young Man.

An examination of the art world's control over Indigenous art, placing the importance of art over tribal sovereignty, in regards to the Jimmie Durham Cherokee ancestry debate.

Columbus Day 1992 marks the 500th year anniversary of the landing in America, but not all think that it is a day to celebrate.

Reviews the literature of 36 international research studies; discusses research methods involving artistic practices. Identifies areas in which arts based methods may offer benefits to an Indigenous research agenda: (a) participant engagement, (b) relationship building, (c) Indigenous knowledge creation, (d) capacity building, and (e) community action.

Fine Arts Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2007.

Discusses complicated and shifting relationships between museums and Indigenous peoples, highlights the contradictory roles museums play, and looks at exhibitions in public galleries of Royal British Columbia Museum, Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Vancouver which show the changing nature of the relationship.

Published in Denosa by DNS in April of 1981, written by Graham Guest. -p01: Pictures of Angelique Merasty and her husband, and Angelique biting birch bark. -p02: Example of birch bark biting.

History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2006.

Author examines several images contemporary to the 1904 World’s Fair, discusses the way in which Indigenous people were portrayed as "spectacle, commodity and spoil of American conquest;" articulates ways that some Indigenous Leaders both corroborated these portrayals and subverted them.

Discusses how Adrian Stimson's anti-colonial, gender-bending persona is used to expose cultural and societal truths.

Review Essay which examines the ways that three different titles, Naamiwan’s Drum: the Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinabe Artefacts (Maureen Matthews), The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures (National Museum of the American Indian), and Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (Chip Colwell) describe, interpret and relate to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).

Interprets the use of the American flag in Indian art and daily life. Includes photographs.

Canadian Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1998.

Looks at the 2012 unveiling of a sculpture of Father Pandosy and how the use of Sylix knowledge both mitigates the erasure of Indigenous presence and acknowledges the Indigenous community within the framework of a settler-colonial identity.

Article discusses the ways that place names and public cultural artifacts in the city of Victoria enforce colonial histories and the erasure of Indigenous and Chinese narratives. Uses the removal of a statue of John A. Macdonald from the entrance to city hall as a case study to examine the similarities between the arguments of apologists and the colonial practices of early Canada.

Explains how Cheyenne text-images including glyphs, pictographs, winter counts, and ledger books helped sustain a unique literature form and present a legitimate alternative to European defined literacy. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.

Editorial article by the guest editor of the “Empowerment Through Literature” special issue addresses key themes and concerns of the articles contained therein.

Art Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2002. Constructs art canons for Indigenous art from Australia that circulated in North America.

Native American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Lethbridge, 2006.

Controversy and politics about the representation of Native American art in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.

Examines how an Inuit photographer and filmmaker have attempted to dispel common stereotypes about the Inuit people and preserve and enhance Inuit culture.

Indigenous Governance Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2015.

Visual and Cultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2002.

Teaching resource centers on portraits produced by George Catlin in the 19th century.

Features portraits of Indigenous subjects painted by George Catlin, who traveled the United States during the 1830s to capture images of the "vanishing race". Includes biographical information, excerpts from his writings, general historical information and exercises to teach students to think critically about the works and the stereotypes found in them. Compares his portraits to photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis in the early 1900s.

Presents author's perspective on evaluating and studying the Harvard University museum exhibition of the remaining Native American artifacts from the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Book review of: The Return of Culture Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield.

English Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Montreal, 2012.

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses the way that story shapes our understanding of people and places, and how only having one narrative about a place or a people leads to a stereotypical and incomplete understanding. Duration: 18:33.

Interdisciplinary Indigenous and Creative Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2016.

Communication and Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2014.

Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 1998.

Discusses the interconnectivity between past and present in photographs by Jeff Thomas and Edward S. Curtis.

Discusses the life and art of Edmond Morris. Morris lived in Manitoba as a young child, the youngest child of Alexander Morris, First Chief Justice of MB and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories. Morris’s work focused on portraiture of Treaty Chiefs, and “pure Cree types.” Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 101.

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1998

Non fictional short story.

Introduction to and commentary on the special issue which features extracts from a conference with the same name and articles which focus on the ways that Indigenous peoples represent European people(s), and vice versa, in art.

Visual Arts Thesis, (M.F.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1997.

Earlier Euro-centric views caused Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art to be viewed as a "quaint variant of 'real' art." This art is finally being recognized as art in itself, which has its own inherent value.