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The Native American Image in Western Europe

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James H. Howard
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 1, 1978, pp. 33-56
A discussion about an American anthropologist's European visit to identify how Europeans view American Indigenous populations. During his investigation he looks at European depictions of Indigenous people in museums and libraries, Indigenous influences in European culture, and compares smaller European societies also struggling for their own cultural autonomy to those of American Indigenous people.
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Pocahontas at the Masque

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Robertson
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 21, no. 3, Spring, 1996, pp. 551-583
Discussion of the interactions of English society and Pocahontas during her visit to the court of James I.
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Property Rights, Standards of Living, and Economic

Growth: Western Canadian Cree

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ann Carlos
Frank Lewis
Examines how the structure of native institutions and property rights provided a relatively high standard of living in the mid eighteenth century and for part of the nineteenth, then was unable to experience modern rates of economic growth and provide avenues for further development.
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Province of Canada, Documents Relating to the North-West Territories (1865)

Alternate Title
Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 8th Parl, 4th Sess, 1865
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly

Primary topic is negotiations between the British government and the Hudson's Bay Company for the cession of of the Company's rights back to the Crown and the Government of Canada's desire to annex the lands granted in the Charter of the Company.

Source: Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 8th Parl, 4th Sess, 1865 at 44-57.

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Reflecting on Pocahontas

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gail Tremblay
Frontiers, vol. 23, no. 2, 2002, pp. 121-123
Brief biography of the Algonquin "princess" who was kidnapped by the British, converted to Christianity and visited the court of James I.
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Report to the Nation: Claiming Europe

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carter Revard
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 3/4, Autumn-Winter, 1982, pp. 305-318
A satirical report written by an Indigenous person claiming parts of Europe for the Osage Nation much in the same way North American had been claimed by European nations.
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Rethinking Image and Narrative at the Heart of Empire: Notes from Indigenous London

Alternate Title
Frank Davis Memorial Lectures 2018
Art History: Decentred Recentred
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Coll Thrush

Presenter discusses how there has been a record of an Indigenous travelers to London dating as far back as 1502, which debunks the common attitude that Indigenous peoples and urbanity and modernity are mutually exclusive.

Duration: 48:36

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Reverend John Maclean and the Bloods

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arni Brownstone
American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 33, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 44-57, 106-107
Brief account of the time John Maclean worked among and wrote about the Canadian Blackfoot in the 1880's.
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The Royal Charter for Incorporating The Hudson's Bay Company, A.D. 1670

Alternate Title
Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
King Charles II
Transcription of legal documentation that provided "...grant unto the said Governor and Company and to theire Successors full Power and lawfull authority to seize upon the Persons of all such English or any other of our Subjects which shall saile into Hudsons Bay..."
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Shared Inuit Culture: European Museums and Arctic Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cunera Buijs
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, Arctic Collections and Museology: Presentations, Disseminations, and Interpretations, 2018, pp. 37-59
Article examines 13 different collaborative partnerships in which communities participated in collaborative curation with large museums. Discusses some of the controversial ethical and ownership issues that are related to mounting an exhibit, and to decolonizing museum practice.
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A Short History and Description of Ojibbeway Indians Now On a Visit to England with Correct Likenesses, Engraved from Daguerreotype Plates, Taken by M. Claudet

Alternate Title
A Short History and Description of Ojibeway Indians Now On a Visit to England with Correct Likenesses, Engraved from Daguerreotype Plates, Taken by M. Claudet
A Short History and Description of Ojibway Indians Now On a Visit to England with Correct Likenesses, Engraved from Daguerreotype Plates, Taken by M. Claudet
An Adventure in Canada
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Charles Stuart
Arthur Rankin
George Catlin
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A Story of Past and Present Power: The Blessing of Two Wampum Belts from the McCord Museum of Canadian History

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruno P. Pouliot
Journal of the Canadian Association for Conservation, vol. 23, 1998, pp. 31-35
Case study of co-operation between the Aboriginal community and an institution which holds an ethnographic artifact with sacred or ceremonial associations. Belts were transported by a conservator, used in ceremonies and returned to the museum.
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Tombo-Chiqui: Or, the American Savage: John Cleland's Noble Savage Satire

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas L. Altherr
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, Autumn, 1985, pp. 411-420
Reviews John Cleland's 1758 satirical play Tombo-Chiqui: or, The American Savage that reflected the noble ignorant savage stereotype prevalent in Europe during the eighteenth century.
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