Seachange, The Face-to-Face, Spring, 2010, pp. 51-80
Description
Looks at the history of Native Net, a nation-wide computer based multimedia communication network, and the development of CyberPowWow, an online gallery and chat room produced by the Aboriginal collective Nation to Nation.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 38-42
Description
Review essay of art exhibition held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, December 15, 1991 to March 29, 1992 featuring 100,00 drawings and prints from West Baffin Cooperative.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 38.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Fall, 1992, pp. 66-73
Description
Author comments on the exhibition mounted by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1992 and issues concerning the Aboriginal artistic community in general, such as being the subject or object, rather than the observer.
Website for the art and creative writing competition for Indigenous youth. Includes links to past winners' submissions, guidelines for submissions, information about prizing, and section for teachers.
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, vol. 11, no. 1, Summer, 2019, pp. i-xxxvi
Description
Focuses on material with self-identified Indigenous creators and publishers published as of March 2019. Divided into anthologies, series, and individual works.
Lists works written by Indigenous authors published between 2000 and 2018. Focuses on substantial books, articles and book chapters on original primary historical research, research methodology and historiography.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 5, June 2019, pp. 76-118
Description
Examines the extent that handicraft products can create income for women in Tanzania; considers issues of seasonal activity, a lack of start-up capital, difficulty obtaining raw materials, and low prices for finished products. Looks at the implications for policy makers wanting to improve the viability of hand crafted products as an income source for rural Tanzanian women.
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.
A manual to support communities and museums that are in the beginning stages of planning for the return of cultural properties to their home nations in BC and at national and international levels. Includes case study of repatriating Haida ancestral remains.
Discusses problems, examples and the options available to communities dealing with issues of ownership, control and access to the cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples.
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Travelling Exhibition Program
Art Gallery of Alberta
Description
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Blackfoot artists Kristy North Peigan, Smith Wright, and Lori Scalplock.Topics include survey of First Nations art in the twentieth century, introduction to Blackfoot history and culture, and artist interviews and biographies.
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Deborah Magee Sherer
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.
Suitable for ages 12 and up.
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 3-[?]
Description
Introduction to special issue celebrating Indigenous film in North America with examples of key films and filmmakers, approaches to studying and writing and interviews with filmmakers in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 4, Fall/Winter, 1992, pp. 25-30
Description
Exhibition reviews of:
The Hudson's Bay Company Collection of Inuit Art Winnipeg Art Gallery, May 9, 1992 to August 30, 1992.
Inuit Art on the Mezzanine, New Acquisitions Winnipeg Art Gallery, February 1, 1992 to August 23, 1992.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 25.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 2010, pp. 4-11
Description
Discusses artists' responses to the impact of residential schools and cultural assimilation.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 4.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 339-364
Description
Article analyzes the narrative presented on the Homeland Security t-shirt [Graphic tee which has the words “Homeland Security” emblazoned above an image of Geronimo with three fellow Apache warriors and the words “Fighting Terrorism since 1492” located below the photograph]. Discusses how this narrative forms a rhetoric of critique and resistance.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, Shamans and Preachers, Color Symbolism and Commercial Evangelism: Reflections on Early Mid-Atlantic , Autumn, 1992, pp. 451-469
Description
Author discusses the shifting systems of meaning and valuation surrounding colour—specifically in trade goods—and how those systems influenced cultures and the trading relationships.
Documentary on the last surviving Yahi who walked out of the bush into a northern California town in 1911 and spent the last four years of his life at the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco.
Duration: 56:43.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 22-29
Description
Profiles an anthropologist who identified two pre-historic Inuit cultures as well as being one of the earliest writers on Inuit art.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.