Looks at media coverage of the incident and use of the term, 'Black Velvet'.
Note from author: "Terms historicised in this article remain offensive and have continuing power to offend. This article attempts to dispel and challenge the meanings conveyed by the term ‘Black Velvet’ by tracing its use in print media and thereby intervening in the attitudes it disseminated"
Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.
Analyzes and assesses environment of the Blackduck people during period 700 to 1300 A.D.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 46-48
Description
Discusses Brian Moore's fiction Blackrobe, and the use of obscene language, stereotyping and racial discrimination.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Image of a gathering of Blackfoot members and associates at Earnscliffe, residence of John A. MacDonald, located in Ottawa, Ontario. On back of photograph: "Front row, left to right: North Axe; Peigan Chief; One Spot; Blood sub-chief. Middle row: Three Bulls, half brother of Crowfoot; Crowfoot; Blackfoot Chief, died 2nd April, 1890; Red Cloud; Blood Chief. Back row: Father Lacombe; John L'Heureux, interpreter.
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Conservation and Society, vol. 10, no. 3, July-September 2012, pp. 232-242
Description
Discusses the potential for cultural reclamation and renewal by the Blackfeet due to the parks natural state. Suggests co-management of parklands in the future.
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anna Bullshoe
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Can be adapted for all age groups.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 1, Sovereignty in Indian Country, Fall, 2004
Description
Report on class from Blackfeet Community College winning top honours for the play, "The Trial of Major Baker," at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)conference, March 2004.
Psychological Services, vol. 12, no. 2, May 2015, pp. 83-91
Description
Looks at collaborative, community based development of an intervention program for treating substance use disorders that are opposite of the usual treatments.
An image of an Aboriginal man and his horse standing in front of a teepee. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process. The postcard was addressed to Katie Wood in Scotland.
Black and white photograph captioned "Blackfoot Brave with scalps" featuring a Blackfoot man on horseback in traditional costume, holding a stick possibly decorated with a scalp. Dog with travois in background.
Black and white photograph of five Blackfoot men on horseback riding down a street wearing traditional clothing and possibly bearing "scalps" on sticks. They appear to be in a parade.
An image of two Aboriginal men posing in ceremonial regalia in a photography studio. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process.
Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 18, no. 2, December 2006, pp. 237-247
Description
Uses the the sacred costume as an example of attitudes toward the acquisition and presentation of material culture; discusses the purchase of the clothing in relation to events taking place in Canada in the 1870s and traces changes in the museum's curatorial practices as demonstrated by its placement in the museum's collection.