American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 481-494
Description
Literary criticism article which examines Black Hawk: An Autobiography and argues that in addition to its value as a historical text, it should also be considered as an act of literary resistance against the narratives imposed on Indigenous peoples by mainstream society.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 439-470
Description
Author examines several images contemporary to the 1904 World’s Fair, discusses the way in which Indigenous people were portrayed as "spectacle, commodity and spoil of American conquest;" articulates ways that some Indigenous Leaders both corroborated these portrayals and subverted them.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Red Readings, December 30, 2018, pp. 63-79
Description
Article engages with the visual art of two different Indigenous women artists, Sarah Sense and Shan Goshorn, and the work it does to challenge colonial narratives and representations of Indigeneity, and Indigenous women by addressing "chasms of misunderstanding and collisions of cultural representation."
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 361-372
Description
Author explores the tropes of exoticism contained in Fergusson’s novel Dancing Gods, situates Fergusson’s writing within the genre, and relates it to similar works by other writers within the genre.
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses the way that story shapes our understanding of people and places, and how only having one narrative about a place or a people leads to a stereotypical and incomplete understanding.
Duration: 18:33.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, The Seventh Generation: Spotlight on Indigenous Youth, June 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the misappropriation of Native American-inspired designs, the blog and online boutique created to educate the public and connect Native designers with customers.
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 125-140
Description
Introduction to and commentary on the special issue which features extracts from a conference with the same name and articles which focus on the ways that Indigenous peoples represent European people(s), and vice versa, in art.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 18, no. 3, [Crossing Borders: Issues in Native Communications], Summer, 1993, pp. [297-313]
Description
Assessment of anthropological analyses of "culture" and the use of ethnography in aboriginal media; concludes with a reading of pertinent studies in the field of exposure and use of mass media by indigenous peoples.
Hakaru Maruumatu Kwitaka? Seeking Representational Jurisdiction in Comanchería Cinema
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dustin Tahmahkera
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 100-135
Description
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.
Studies in American Indian Literature, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 121-150
Description
Discuss Waln’s use of hip hop as a venue to resist colonially imposed tropes of toxic/hyper masculinity and the indian, and to reestablish authentic Indigenous masculinities and collaboration with Indigenous feminists.
Discusses the work of visual artist Summer Zah; highlights the way in which the artist engages with media stereotypes and representations, and the effects they can have on individual identities as well as on mainstream perceptions of Indigenous peoples.
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 117-150
Description
Discusses how the work of these visual artists participates in Indigenous storytelling about the future by engaging with contemporary artistic practices and mainstream popular culture; author examines the way that the artists challenge Western colonial narratives and stereotypes.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 184-206
Description
Article works to highlight the diversity of the work being done by Indigenous artists from different communities within the new media arts, but also to explore the partnerships, networks, and practices of solidarity developing within and between these communities.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 466-477
Description
Author describes the short film created to introduce the audience to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and their role in the production of it.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 79-110
Description
The authors explore the ways that the design of two different Indigenous video games compels players to enact survivance, and how that experience of survivance creates a space for teaching and learning about culture and for decolonizing perspectives.
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 322: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World II]
[Section Two: Expressions of Self-Determination in North America]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Heather Harris
Description
Discusses the ways northern North American people shape, express and retain their identities.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 409-422
Description
Author examines different frameworks and themes related to mixed ethnicities/identities and considers how these factors might motivate an author to create mixed characters.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 30-52
Description
Author discusses the work of two Indigenous pop-artists and how they appropriate iconic mainstream imagery in order to subvert popular narratives and stereotypes in the Star Wars franchise and in the wider film industry.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 53-61
Description
Author works to articulate a strategy for the introduction and study of Indigenous text in the post-secondary classroom. Focuses on identifying a text as an “Indigenous text,” diversity of authors, cultural elements of the texts.
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1-2, November 28, 2016, pp. 5-11
Description
Critical review of a 2014 run of the play Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Details the ways in which the play promotes racialized language and slurs, misinformation about, and the mistreatment of Indigenous people.