I'POYI Aboriginal Writers Gathering ; March 27, 2009
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Troy Emory Twigg
Description
Dancer reads an article he wrote, A Story of an Entry at Union Station, How Ancient Memories Travel Through the Blood, Peter Chen and Me, and then performs a dance.
Duration: 21:42.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 4, December 2009, pp. 711-751
Description
Suggests that the event represented economic self-sufficiency, personal independence, and the development of new rodeo masculinities for both settlers and Aboriginal men in early twentieth-century Western Canada.
Recounts several incidences of murdered and missing Aboriginal women. Statistics show 4.5 out of every 100,000 Indigenous women are killed by homicide.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 166, Spring, 2016, pp. 106-108
Description
Talks about a multimedia event in Calgary's Heritage Park Historical Village to increase the public understanding of the treaty signed at Blackfoot Crossing in 1877.
Report details policy recommendations which the Calgary City Council could implement in order to engage the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Calls to Action