Arts & Culture

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 1995. Anishnaabe women's arts.

Discusses the authors own spoken-word practice, past influences, and how it is currently being molded.

Webcast of Global Encounters Initiative Symposium called Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame held at the University of British Columbia, March 4-6, 2010. Panel discussion begins at 36:41. Duration: 2:24:18.

Looks at spatial tagging using the Idle No More urban flash mob round dance and Walking With Our Sister art installation.

Overview of Angel De Cora, director of art instruction, who encouraged students to focus on native artistic traditions beginning a new era in educational practices.

Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D)--New York University, 1996.

Examines the conflicted history and cultural appropriation of the potlatch, and the different objectives used for the festival.

Perehudoff painting hung at the museum at Batoche. Depicts government forces.

Exhibit showing houses from six Pacific coast First Nations, focusing on traditional culture and contemporary issues.

"From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895 ..."

Website contains links to Lake Ontario, Lake of the Woods, Great Slave Lake, Bras d'Or Lake and Lake Winnipeg regions.

Discusses emerging trends in Northern art and the need for government support for its continued survival.

Argues that the elaborately decorated items of clothing made by the Métis were not for their own use and had no relevance to their culture; instead they were created as commodities to be sold to Europeans.

File containing two articles related to Grey Owl. One is a biographical profile from the series "The Saskatchewanians," the other discusses his daughter's view of Grey Owl's Ajawan Lake home.

Industrial Design Thesis (MDes)--Carleton University, 2016.

Article focuses on the artwork of people from the northwest coast; notes that historically, scholarship and collection practices have excluded some of the range of artistic production; advocates for more inclusive practices of scholarship, collection, and exhibition.

Discussion about band Gyibaaw’s song "Gyitwaalkt", which expresses “warrior-ness” through traditional language, instrumention and heavy reverb, and the ‘audiopolitics’ of the genres of metal and black metal. Audio File.

Commentary of the various media reviews on the September 2004, First Americans Festival held at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).

Author examines the different forms that literature takes in na Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian people) culture. Discusses the early publication of newspapers and novels and the literature and story carried in the hula, a traditional dance.

Discusses the architecture of houses and design styles of totems poles in the villages of Kaigani, Klinkwan, Kassan. Part 1: Duration: 34:20. Access to Part 2.

Looks at architecture of the houses and carving styles on totem poles in the villages of Howkan, Hydaburg, Sukkwan and Kygani. Part 2: Duration: 31:06. Access to Part 1.

Discusses the architecture of houses and design style of totem Poles in the villages of Skidegate, Xaina, Skedans, Tanu, Skungwai and Chaatl Haida. Part 1 duration: 25:08. Part 2 duration: 32:08.

Exhibit including the people and the land, Haida art, and Haida villages; based on book Haida Art by George F. MacDonald.

Discusses representations of the Comanche people in both historic and contemporary films and other media; describes ways in which cinematic Comanche (actors and performers) worked to subvert mainstream narratives and portrayals of their people.

Museum Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Leicester, 2002.

Image of woman painting cards. Several hang to dry on a line in front of her.

Looks at aesthetic philosophies, techniques and personal styles of four Aboriginal female artists; Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert. Duration: 51:49.

Ethnomusicology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2001.

Literary criticism essay which examines Mathew Kaopio’s novels. Highlight the construction of an Indigenous world through the subversion of settler–colonial expectations; discusses frameworks of resurgence and Chadwick Allen’s notion of purposeful Indigenous juxtapositions.

Examines the ways that Hawaiian graffiti artists and art interrogate and resist the influences of colonial and military occupation. Author uses a process of socio-historical contextualization to draw parallels between the time of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the present and to examine the expression of ancestral knowledge in aerosol art.

[Arts] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Sidney, 2013.

Presents a performative text delivered by Michael Greyeyes as a keynote address given at Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context conference hosted by Wilfred Laurier University and York University, May, 2007.

Overview of the Métis artists' uses of flowers and beads in her designs to represent identity, diversity, fluidity and authenticity.

Examines First Nations music in a combined band and social studies, grade 9, classroom in Saskatchewan.

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

Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2000.

Discusses Alberta's heritage conservation accomplishments and the various ways of restoring the past, including museums, heritage parks and archaeological site preservation.

Article examines the process and effects of the heritagization of Tamu (Nepal) music; considers some of the dynamics of the cross-cultural relationships between different Indigenous and colonizing groups within Nepal and the push to safeguard intangible culture.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2013.

Book review of: Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture edited by Cora J. Voyageur, David R. Newhouse and Dan Beavon.

Reviews songs which were a form of revitalization ritual of the Bella Bella or Heiltsuk.

Examines the relationship between art, identity and culture and the discourses surrounding contemporary Indigenous art.

Discusses collection focusing on an unidentified St. Francis Mission winter count.

Discusses associations which were established to encourage production and marketing of Inuit artworks

Comments on the contribution artists and filmmakers have made to the cultural landscape of Australia.