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Toward a Native Archive: Chicago's Relocation Photos, Indian Labor, and Indigenous Public Text

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Megan Tusler
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 375-410
Article provides a literary historical reading of photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) photo archive of the “relocation project.” Discusses the relocation as both an institutional and an aesthetic venture.
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Traditional Art In The Health Worker Training Program

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dayalan Devanesen
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, September 1983, pp. 4-8
Describes how artwork can play a role in health worker training in the Northern Territory, Australia.
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Traditional Indian Dancers

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Glen Berger
58 images (14 scanned here) of Inuit and First Nations singers and dancers performing in Saskatoon on August 18, 1980.
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Traditional Knowledge Background Briefs

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Series of brief documents which provide information on issues and topics relating to intellectual property, genetic resources, and traditional cultural expressions and knowledge.
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Traditional Musical Culture at the Native Canadian Centre in Toronto

Alternate Title
Traditional Musical Culture at the Native Canadian Center in Toronto
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wendy Wickwire
Canadian Journal for Traditional Music, vol. 4, 1976, pp. 48-55
Discusses musical culture being revived by a group of Ojibwa Indians at an urban friendship centre in Toronto by examining elements that appear in the music.
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Translation and Resistance in Native North American Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Márgara Averbach (Margara Averbach)
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 2000, pp. 165-181
Article engages in a postmodernist cultural critique of the process of “inverted appropriation” in which an oppressed or marginalized culture makes use of the technological or cultural pieces of the dominant cultures as a way of resisting assimilation and erasure.
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Trickster's Turn: New Books on Bill Reid

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gerta Moray
BC Studies, no. 146, Summer, 2005, pp. 93-[?]
Book reviews of: Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian by Maria Tippett Bill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art edited by Karen Duffek and Charlotte Townsend-Gault.
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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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Turning Pages: Eden Robinson on Trickster Drift

Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Eden Robinson
Michael Elves
Episode 66: Eden Robinson discusses Trickster Drift, the second novel in her Trickster Trilogy, and her process for writing it. Duration: 26:38.
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The Twana Culture and the Drum

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ralph Pulsifer

Storybook suitable for use with primary school students.

Twana is the collective name for a group of nine Coast Salish peoples.

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Two Native Americans Speak on Art Values and the Value of Arts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leona M. Zastrow
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 16, no. 3, May 1977, pp. [25-30]
Expresses concern about disappearing traditional art skills and examines the role schools could play in reversing this trend.
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Two Voices on Aboriginal Pedagogy: Sharpening the Focus

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shirley Rochelle Turner
Shannon Carolyn Leddy
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2016, pp. 53-62

Discusses the use of Indigenous educational holistic approaches to improve communication and understand for new teachers in Canada.

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U of S play about the 1885 Uprising

Images » Photographs
Costumed actors in a play about the Northwest Resistance of 1885 presented at the University of Saskatchewan. (Left to right) Pollard, Jacoby, Bryce, Chapman, Dobson, Toombs, Professors Morton and Porteous.

Historical note:

Photo taken on February 25, 1927 at U of S Campus.
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Uelen Hunters and Artists

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mikhail M. Bronshtein
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 83-101
History of the remote Russian settlement, located on the Chukotka Peninsula, where the Bering Strait meets the Arctic Ocean.
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Uncanadian Indians and Good Corporate Citizens: Representations of The Spirit Sings: Aristic Traditions of Canada’s First Peoples in the English-Canadian Media

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Josh Nelson
Adie Nelson
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 61-86
Authors examines the (neo)colonial narratives present the English print media coverage of the Glenbow Museum’s 1988 exhibit The Spirit Sings. The exhibit, a headliner of the 1988 Winter Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, is often considered to be the “catalyst for Canada's Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (1992).”
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Understanding Place in Culture: Serigraphs and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Victoria Art Collections
Shelby Richardson
Exhibition features 30 prints by seven Indigenous artists from the coastal areas of British Columbia: Francis Dick, Maynard Johnny Jr., Edward Joe, Stan Greene, Floyd Joseph, Tim Paul, and Joe David. Contains links to short biographies of artists, images of each artwork, brief bibliography and curatorial essay.
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Unique Huron Ornamental Bands: Wampum Cuffs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marshall Joseph Becker
Material Culture Review, vol. 66, Fall, 2007, pp. 59-67
Discusses the 13 surviving examples of the glove "gauntlets", their history, characteristics and possible functions.
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Uno Native Film Festival

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brady DeSanti
Michele M. Desmarais
Beth R. Ritter
Journal of Religion & Film, vol. 18, no. 1, 2014, p. Article 40
Film reviews of: 40 Years Celebrating Wounded Knee directed by Christopher Marshall. The Medicine Game directed by Lukas Korver. Shouting Secrets directed by Korinna Sehringer. Spirit in Glass: Plateau Native Beadwork. Winter in the Blood directed by Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith. Yellow Fever: The Navajo Uranium Legacy directed by Sophie Rousmaniere.
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Unsettling Canadian Heritage: Decolonial Aesthetics in Canadian Video and Performance Art

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah E.K. Smith
Carla Taunton
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 306-341
Article examines the work of contemporary artists Leah Decter, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, and Caroline Monnet. Discusses the artists’ engagement with current discourse surrounding settler colonialism and their use of the arts to disrupt conceptualization of the Canadian state as inclusive and benevolent.
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Untranslatable Timescapes in James Welch’s Fools Crow and the Deconstruction of Settler Time

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doro Wiese
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 56-75
Literary criticism article in which the author suggests that Welch’s use of Indigenous understandings of time as a narrative device in the novel Fools Crow works to both dismantle Western histories and to disrupt the mainstream perception of Western ontologies as universal and self-evident.
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Urban Indians, Native Networks, and the Creation of Modern Regional Identity in the American Southwest

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cathleen D. Cahill
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 71-92
Article explores how Indigenous opera singers in the Southwestern United States in the 1920's used their platform as performers to publicize Indigenous histories; highlights the mobility of Indigenous peoples and how they helped to create modern urban spaces in the Southwest.
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