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Aboriginal Children's Hurt & Healing (ACHH) Initiative
John R. Sylliboy
Margot Latimer
Sharon Rudderham
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 13, no. 2, Special Audiovisual Edition, 2019, p. [12]
Description
Links to short video which discusses the ACHH's research on helping healthcare professionals to understand pain and hurt from a Mi'kmaw perspective. Research done in collaboration with Artist Alan Syliboy, illustrates how participants think about and express pain.
ACHH Initiative
Duration 5:03
The Anthropology Museum in the Post-Colonial Era: A Case Study on How Indigenous, First Nations Communities are Represented at the UBC Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver
Theses
Author/Creator
Amelie Nikitin
Description
Art, Society and Culture Thesis (M.A.)--Erasmus University, 2019.
Approaching Anxiety: Reading Eden Robinson in an Era of Reconciliation
Theses
Author/Creator
Hannah Mclean Skrynsky
Description
English Language and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2017.
The Archaeology of North America
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dean Snow
Archival Photographs in Perspective: Indian Residential School Images of Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Krista McCracken
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 2017, pp. [163]-182
Description
"This article addresses the challenges associated with present-day usage of residential school photographs, the ways in which these photographs can contribute to ongoing discussions about healing and reconciliation, and the use of archival photographs within the residential school survivor community".
Augusta
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Anne Wheeler
Description
Portrait of a wise Shuswap woman and her views of the world. Accompanying study guide entitled, Exploring Likenesses and Differences with Film.
Duration:16:33.
Bandolier Bag
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Amelia Fay
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 2, April/May 2017, p. 20
Description
Brief article contains illustration and description of wearable art made by Indigenous groups in the Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes area.
Barry Pottle's Photography Explores Inuit Objectification by ID Tags
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Adams
Globe and Mail, March 24, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the Awareness Series by Barry Pottle about the identification tag system implemented by the Canadian government.
Being Métis in Canada: An Unsettled Identity
Theses
Author/Creator
Sinead O'Sullivan
Description
Social Science Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Manchester, 2017.
Beyond a Number: Inuit Photo Exhibit Brings Controversial 'Eskimo' I.D. System to Light
Alternate Title
Day 6 ; episode 348, July 28, 2017
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Barry Pottle
[Jelena Adzic]
Description
Podcast of Interview with artist about his exhibition Awareness Series which focuses on the government's policy of issuing numbered disks to Inuit rather than referring to them by name.
Duration: 6:54.
Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park and Siksika Nation
Alternate Title
Case Studies in Aboriginal Business
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erin Bragg
Case Studies in Aboriginal Business
Description
Brief case study of the largest Aboriginal owned and operated tourist attraction in Canada.
Can Capitalism Be Decolonized? Recentering Indigenous Peoples, Values, and Ways of Life in the Canadian Art Market
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Solen Roth
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 306-338
Description
Author examines the interdependent nature of colonial and capitalist structures and their collaborative resistance to decolonizing efforts. Explores two different sites in which Indigenous businesses are working to engage in the market while maintaining business practices rooted Indigenous values and principles. Asks how these economic practices can support the dismantling of colonial-capitalist economic institutions.
A Cannibal in the National Museum: The Early Career of Franz Boas in America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Curtis M. Hinsley
Bill Holm
American Anthropologist, vol. 78, no. 2, New Series, June 1976, pp. 306-316
Description
Looks at anthropologist who had difficulty establishing himself professionally in the United States.
Chief Felix Musqua Honoured at Pow-Wow
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 2, February 1976, p. 39
Description
Ceremony honours Keeseekoose Reserve chief.
Collective Memory in Transition: Macdonald, Cornwallis and Statue Removal in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Ben McHutchion
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A) -- Queen's University, 2019.
The Commission, the Community, and the Cree Woman in the Attic: Georgina Lightning's Older Than America in Canada's Culture of Redress
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
K. L. Killebrew
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 136-169
Description
Film criticism which discusses Lightning’s movie as an act of resistance to colonial backlash to reconciliation, and to settler narratives regarding Indian Residential Schools.
Communities of Access: Examining Emerging Geographies of Inuit Art in Canada Through the Lens of the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Inuit Art Centre and Kenojuak Cultural Centre and Print Shop
Theses
Author/Creator
Chrys Avgi Apostolatos
Description
Art History and Visual Culture Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2019.
A Comparative Study of the Bark, Bone, Wood and Hide Items Made by the Historic Micmac, Montagnais-Nascapi and Beothuk Indians
Theses
Author/Creator
Janet Chute
Description
Anthropology Thesis (MA) -- Memorial University, 1976.
Contemporary Art Curating and Its Long Christian Shadow
Theses
Author/Creator
Elisha Lim
Description
Criticism and Curatorial Practice Thesis (M.F.A.)--Ontario College of Art and Design University, 2017.
Contemporary Native Art of Canada - The Woodland Indians / Art Contemporain des Indiens Sylvicoles due Canada. - Booklet. - 1976.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bernhard Cinader
Description
Program of exhibit of Canadian Woodland Indian contemporary native art. Short article and references by Bernhard Cinader; includes photographs and biographies of artists.
Cooking Fish Upwanask Style
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Lois Dalby (photographer)
Description
A set of 19 photos of Napthelie McKenzie showing how a fish can be cooked upwanask style over an open fire, without a frying pan, using sticks to hold it. Birchbark can serve as a plate in the bush.
The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Salma Monani
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Examines Calder’s stop-frame animated feature film in the context of animation, ecocinema, and Indigenous studies; focuses on theme of hybridity and métissage.
Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Contemporary Inuit Drawing
Theses
Author/Creator
Nancy Campbell
Description
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.
Cree Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses.children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
Cultural imPRINT: A History of Northwest Coast Native and First Nations Prints
Theses
Author/Creator
India Rael Young
Description
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2017.
Includes biographies of Robert Davidson, Roy Henry Vickers, Marvin Oliver, and Susan Point.
Curbing Cultural Appropriation in the Fashion Industry
Alternate Title
CIGI Papers ; no. 213
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brigitte Vézina
Description
Explores the problematic relationship between traditional cultural expressions and intellectual property law (particularly copyright), which fails to protect them and puts most of them in the public domain, and outlines some proposals for concrete policy, legal and practical solutions to end appropriation.
Custodians of the Past: Archaeology and Indigenous Best Practices in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
April Chabot
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.
Dance With Us As You Can ... : Art, Artist, and Witness(ing) in Canada's Truth nd Reconciliation Journey
Theses
Author/Creator
Jonathan Robert Dewar
Description
Indigenous and Canadian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2017.
Decolonization through Collaborative Filmmaking: Sharing Stories from the Heart
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Carlson
Gladys Rowe
Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot
Sarah Story
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. [23]-49
Description
Explores collective documentary filmmaking as an instrument of decolonizing storytelling, describes the consensus-based work of a diverse group including both Indigenous and settler artists involved in the Stories of Decolonization project's first short film Stories of Decolonization: Land Dispossession and Settlement.
Decolonizing Nunavut's Art Market
Theses
Author/Creator
Erin Elizabeth Yunes
Description
Art History Thesis (PhD) - York University, 2019.
The Digital Biography of Things: A Canadian Case Study in Digital Repatriation
Alternate Title
Cultural Heritage: Scenarios 2015-2017
Sapere l’Europa. Sapere d’Europa ; 4
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Emanuela Rossi
Description
Describes the database created by The Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC).
Chapter from Cultural Heritage: Scenarios 2015-2017 edited by Simona Pinton and Lauso Zagato.
Disposable Red Woman: Guerrilla Art
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Destin RunningRabitt
Iman Bukhari
Description
Guerrilla art display was placed on various streets in Calgary with the hope of evoking empathy and a sense of urgency in society to intervene with this injustice. Artists filmed the public's reactions.
Duration: 4:55.
E.-A.: Freestyle Looming and Probability: Grade 12 Foundations of Math
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Krysta Shemrock
Description
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
E-D.1: Multiplication and First Nations Drumming
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Serena Palmer
Description
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the Stirling McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development
E-D.2: Quadrilateral Patterning through Indigenous Beading: Grade 5
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Serena Palmer
Description
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
Eskimo Carving
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Linda Holoboff
Description
Four images (0ne scanned here) of two men looking at an Eskimo carving in Saskatoon.
An Exploration of Crime Prevention Among Indigenous Youth Who Utilize the Services of the Saskatoon Youth Arts Programming (SCYAP)
Theses
Author/Creator
Christopher Takyi
Description
Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2017.
Exploring Autism and Music Interventions through a First Nations Lens
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Lindblom
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2017, pp. 202-209
Description
Discusses results of study conducted with five children in British Columbia.
Exploring International Repatriation between U.S. Museums and First Nations in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Elizabeth G. Wessells
Description
Museology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 2017.
Three cases studies: Burke Museum and the Stó:lō Nation; the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Siksika Nation; and the Field Museum and the Haida Nation.
Exploring the Relocation Experiences of Female Indigenous Youth in Foster Care through Storywork
Theses
Author/Creator
Cheryl Inkster
Description
Counselling Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2017.
Fashioning Decolonization: Telling Stories Of Canadian Indigenous Women Through Fashion Hacking
Theses
Author/Creator
Presley Mills
Description
Fashion Major Research Paper (M.A.) -- Ryerson University, 2019.
First Nations Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Linda Holoboff
Description
17 images (5 scanned here) of a First Nations Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre in Saskatoon taken on February 13, 1976. They show meeting rooms and sleeping quarters
First Nations Chiefs Speaking
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Glen Berger (photographer)
Description
50 images (12 of which have been scanned here) of First Nations leaders speaking to guests at the Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon on April 22, 1976. Many wear full head dresses. It appears to be a gathering to discuss treaty issues led by Federation of Saskatchewan Indians Chief David Ahenakew.
First-Nations, Métis, and Inuit Drama from Playwrights Canada Press
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer E. Shook
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 225-233
Description
Review essay in which the author examines the reoccurring elements and themes in several plays written by Indigenous playwrights and published in Canada by Playwrights Canada Press.
Four More Indigenous Projects for the Native American Humanities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Herman
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 31-53
Description
Builds on Linda Tuhiwai Smith's short essay "Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects," and in acknowledgement of the essay and its 20th anniversary offers four more projects specific to Native American Humanities:
• Continuing
• Reknowing
• Sociologizing
• Valuing
Framing the Past
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mark Colin Reid
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, p. 8
Description
Editor's introductory article to issue comments on the exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the late 1800s by photographers looking to capture, "cowboys and Indians".
"Free Your Mind," from the Series Crazymaking (2007)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tania Willard
BC Studies, no. 193, Spring, 2017, p. 5
Description
Brief statement by cover artist and description of her work as a curator.
Friendship Centre Indian and Metis Fashion Show
Images » Photographs
Description
Scanned image shows a group of women and a child posing for a portrait at the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre fashion show held on February 19, 1976.
Gambling on Authenticity: Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-So-New Indian
Alternate Title
American Indian Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Scott Andrews
Becca Gercken
Jim Donomie
Heid E. Erdrich
Julie Pelletier
American Indian Studies Series