Images & Stereotypes

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, 1987.

Discusses the play The Edward S. Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story by Marie Clements; photographs by Rita Leistner.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 2001.

Intended for use for secondary school students with film: Full Circle: First Nations, Métis, Inuit Ways of Knowing.

Interview with the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria. Duration: 19:32.

Second half of an interview with the Director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, and a law professor from the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria. Duration: 26:41. Access Part one.

Explains how Aboriginal writers are plagued with problems of consciousness and experience, mostly on the part of the readers.

Exhibit review of: "The Fur Trade" Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta. Opened October 1991.

Includes links to program, summary, speeches, and audio of two panel discussions. Part 1: Community Radio speech by Jack Anawak. Part 2: Panel discussion: Regional Radio: Taqramiut Nipingat Inc.(TNI) and CBC North featuring Claude Grenier, Salome Avva and Patrick Nagle. Part 3: Speech by George Hickes, Nunavut Minister responsible for Health and Suicide Prevention. Part 4: Panel discussion: Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, CFRT-FM, and TV Nunavut featuring Fanny He, Madeleine d'Agencourt, and Charlotte DeWolff.

Site contains links to Indigenous historical and contemporary material drawn from the Canadian Museum of Civilization's artifact and archival collections including thousands of photographs.

Overview of the depictions of Aboriginal men and women from historical origins to contemporary media portrayals.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1997.

Literary Criticism article which explores the motivations of and the stylistic choices made by Mourning Dove and her collaborator, Lucullus V. McWhorter, in the novel Co-ge-we-a, The Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Montana Cattle Range<.>

Modern History, Politics & International Relations Thesis (Ph.D.)--Macquarie University, 2012.

Looks at the international definition of genocide, physical and social decimation, disease as genocide and more.

Rita Joe discusses her poetry and how she attempts to show Native people in a more favourable light, which is one way for her to express concern about the way Mi’kmaq were treated and the racism they suffered.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2010.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2008.

George Gwynne Mann was a farm instructor and Indian agent for the government of Canada in Onion Lake, North-West Territories from 1879 to 1900. Mann and his family fled Onion Lake to Fort Pitt after the so-called Frog Lake "massacre," and were later taken as hostages from Fort Pitt and held for two months by Plains Cree warriors. The file contains hand written manuscripts and photocopied documents that detail Mann family's involvement in the 1885 rebellion, and describe aspects of Aboriginal ceremony and culture.

Describes how Gerald Vizenor literary work examines the inter-relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures.

Discusses the implications of using Geronimo's name as code for Osama Bin Laden when he was killed by the United States military and how Indigenous masculinity has been represented and misrepresented.

Discussion of the highly complex issue of Aboriginal employment in Australia.

Examines several stories that were featured on sports television and in sports publications between November 1999 and July 2001.

Note: The title and description of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. Article was of interest to Paul Chartrand, head of the Native Studies Department at the University of Manitoba who makes fun of the incredibly racist tone of the article on a one sheet poster he perhaps kept on the door of his office.

File contains a photocopy of M. Giraud's article "The Western Metis After the Insurrection," as published in Saskatchewan History Vol. IX No. 1 (winter 1956): pp. 1-15. He gives his impression of the lives of the Metis in the North-West Territories after 1885. He argues that many were destitute living on thin strips of crown land, and only a few had small farms, while others settled on reserves. Many got a title to land worth $240 (scrip), but most sold their title for less than it was worth and then spent the money foolishly.

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

Analyzes how women were portrayed in 12 articles published in the Winnipeg Free Press between 2006 and 2012 and the influence of social constructions of gender, race and class. Human Rights Thesis (B.A.)--Lunds Universitet, 2016.

Discusses two education success stories and the relative lack of positive media exposure.

Looks for patterns in habits of watching television, music video and music, where heroes and role models come from and affects media on future goals and concept of self.

Describes the poor conditions Aboriginal farm labourers faced while employed on sugar beet farms.

Review essay of Whispering in Shadows by Jeannette Armstrong.

Looks at the character Jacob Black and stereotypes of American Indian men. To be published in book: Bringing Light to Twilight Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon edited by Giselle Liza Anatol

Honors History Thesis (B.A.) --Vanderbilt University, 2008.

Reproduction of the only known colour photograph of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, including several indigenous persons in idealized traditional costume.

Looks at strategies employed by the National Congress of American Indians, the National Indian Youth Council, and the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium in their efforts to combat racial stereotypes.

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

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.

Story of the Hantavirus illness, outbreak, deaths, and media attention in the summer of 1993 among the Navajo of the Four Corners (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah).

Discusses the mental health consequences to Native Americans caused by the derogatory use of the Washington football team's name.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2001.

Describes how promoters used Aboriginals to attract potential customers through images, names of products, and as performers.

Looks at the stereotypical image and why Grey Owl was "the truest Indian of them all".

Discusses exhibit on the American Indian holocaust.

Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, pictures, poems and various articles.

Reports the key recommendations that would help provide Aboriginal Transgender/Two Spirit people with the dignity of an everyday life free of anxieties regarding health and safety.

Discussion and images of Aboriginal homeless in Edmonton.

Examines the portrayals of Native Americans in films, arguing that although recent films attempt to counteract previous stereotypes, more accurately portray history and culture, and tend to be more sympathetic to political claims they still fall short and appear assimilationist in tone.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1993.