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Evaluation of the Kòts'iìhtła ("We Light the Fire") Project: Building Resiliency and Connections through Strengths-Based Creative Arts Programming for Indigenous Youth

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sahar Fanian
Stephanie K. Young
Mason Mantla
Anita Daniels
Susan Chatwood
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 74, Special Issue: Suicide and Resilience in Circumpolar Populations , 2015, p. article no. 27672
Discusses workshop where Tłįchǫ youth explored critical community issues and find solutions together using creative arts.
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Exploring the Sacred in Aboriginal Performance Art

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristin Dowell
e-misférica, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 2005, p. [?]
Comments on a performance by Dana Claxton which uses replacement objects (i.e. beargrass rather than sweetgrass) instead of actual sacred objects.
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The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - Gathering in Broadview with Drum

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Duffin & Co.
Black and white photograph of a gathering of Indigenous men and women with some Caucasian men in background. Some traditional clothing. Men with drum in foreground. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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The Face Pullers: Ch.3 Images - Children with Instruments : Dunbow Boarding School

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 Images - Children with Instruments : St. Joseph's Boarding School
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Black and white photograph of five young boys with brass instruments outside of Dumbow (St. Joseph's) Boarding School, Alberta. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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The Face Pullers: Ch.3 Images - School Band

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Black and white photograph of a school band on the Ermineskin Reserve. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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The Face Pullers: Ch. 3 Images - St. Albert Brass Band

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Charles W. Mathers

Black and white photograph of the members of the St. Albert Brass Band posing with instruments. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

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The Face Pullers - SAB pictures - Indigenous man with drum

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Black and white photograph of an indigenous man in idealized but elaborately beaded traditional costume holding a feathered drum. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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The Face Pullers - Unused Photos- A Brass Band

Images » Photographs
Black and white photograph of an aboriginal brass band and their non-aboriginal leader. Unused photograph From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Dancing"

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Black and white photograph of a group of elderly indigenous men dancing, while younger men beat drums in the background. Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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The Face Pullers - Unused Photos "Gathering at Prince Albert"

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
William J. James (photographer)
Black and white photograph of a large group of indigenous people looking on a group of men with a drum. Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Indigenous Gathering near Prince Albert"

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
William J. James
Black and white photograph of a group of Indigenous people watching men with drums and a suited man in foreground holding stick. Unused photograph from The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides
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Feeling Reconciliation, Remaining Settled

Alternate Title
Theatres of Affect
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Dylan Robinson
Examines two examples of inclusionary music performance. Chapter from Theatres of Affect edited by Erin Hurley.
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Festival of the Dreaming - Art, Music and Dance

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rose Ellis
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 21, no. 5, September/October 1997, p. 29
Brief description of festival focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Culture in the lead up to the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
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Fiddle Fest Warms the Heart

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Karon Shmon
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 9, September 2011, p. 11
Looks at the success of the 14th Annual John Arcand Fiddle Fest which features Métis fiddle music and dancing. Article located by scrolling to page 11.
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Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84

E-Books
Author/Creator
J. W. Powell
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States by Prof. Cyrus Thomas The Cherokee Nation of Indians by Charles C. Royce The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony by Dr. Washington Matthews The Seminole Indians of Florida by Clay MacCauley The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson
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Finding Mile Zero on the Powwow Trail

Alternate Title
[Aboriginal Lecture Series (Simon Fraser University)] ; 2016
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Eldon Yellowhorn
Speaker discusses "Brocket Indian Days", the longest running powwow in Canada, and how the gatherings have changed over time. Duration: 58:12.
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First Arctic Winter Games, 1970.

Images » Photographs
Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Drum Rhythms Arctic Winter Games" In the picture is John Munro, Minister of Amateur Sport.
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First Arctic Winter Games, 1970.

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Drum Rhythms Arctic Winter Games"
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First Nation Pow Wow - Fort Carlton 1. Nation People Remembering Sign Treaty #6 125 Years Ago, Aug. 25 2001. - Slides.

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Hans S. Dommasch (photographer)
Two slides showing exterior views of the NWMP Officers' Quarters and a corner post of the stockade at Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan. Also includes a large metal reproduction of the Treaty Six medal, and a group of Aboriginal men, some on horseback bearing flags and some walking while drumming.
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First Nations and Métis Songs as Identity Narratives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karl Neuenfeldt
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 12, Aboriginal Peoples and Canada, Fall, 1995, pp. [201]-220
Analyzes ethno-pop music and lyrics in relation to ethnic identity and experiences with Western colonialism. Scroll down to page 202 to read article.
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Focus On: Kathy Kettler, Throatsinger

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Janet Yates
Kathy Kettler
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter, 2001, pp. 28-32
Presents an interview describes some of the techniques involved in throatsinging. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 28.
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Follow the Drum

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pamela Sexsmith
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 3, June 2003, p. Suppl.3

Highlights Gerald Okanee, lead singer of Saskatchewan's Big Bear Singers, who shares his knowledge about the drum and how the beat pits the powwow dancer's style against that of the the drummer's, sometimes "bucking off" the dancer.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.19.

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Four Hopi Lullabies: A Study in Method and Meaning

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen M. Sands
Emory Sekaquaptewa
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 3, 1978, pp. 195-210
Using four Hopi lullabies to discuss the linguistical, historical and cultural importance of Indigenous lullabies.
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Francis Harper Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Francis Harper
Mary Mountain
Iris Baker
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes a discussion of the role of spirit powers in the traditional lifestyle. Also included is a description of inter-tribal interaction involving feats of bravery.
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From Creation Stories to '49 Songs: Cultural Transactions with the White World as Portrayed in Northern Plains Indian Story and Song

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph E. DeFlyer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 11-25
Looks at the historical and cultural process of communication, before the first written records had been created between mainstream American culture and the Native American cultures of the Northern Plains. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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From the Caribbean to the South Pacific: Cultural Hybridity, Resistance, and Historical Difference

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maria E. Posse Emiliani
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 62-80
Author uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the processes of cultural hybridization and resistance and their presence in film, music, and art. Discusses how these factors can combine to preserve and revitalize traditional knowledges and cultures in the contemporary globalized world.
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From the Editor: Crossing Genre, Media, Form

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chadwick Allen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 3, Fall, 2015, pp. vii-viii
Brief introduction to articles featured in the issue.
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