Theatre Journal, vol. 59, no. 3, October 2007, pp. 449-465
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Article investigates the politics of theatre translation in two plays: The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway, and Up the Ladder by Roger Bennett to determine how plays are altered for different audiences and cultures.
Analyzes 691 news and opinion articles published in 19 Canadian daily newspapers, Maclean's magazine and four wire services between July 31 and Oct. 16, 1995.
International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities & Nations, vol. 8, no. 3, 2008, pp. 1-9
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Author examined news articles, opinion articles and letters to the editor which covered the shooting of Dudley George during a dispute over a burial ground.
Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, no. 50, Spring-Summer, 2002, pp. 6-31
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Critical analysis reveals the two poets calling for a "rethinking of how irony has been theorized in an Aboriginal context" and for readership to challenge stereotyping.
The author, chairman, Committee on Education, Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada, criticizes the Indian Act and describes his personal struggles with being born of Aboriginal parents but not fitting the Indian Act's requirements of what constitutes an Aboriginal person.
Explores opera which looks at the contradictory forces of social alienation and cultural assimilation that aboriginals faced during the early twentieth century.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 17, no. 2, 2006, pp. 148-173
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Looks at the plight of Aboriginal peoples and their increasing unwillingness to suffer in silence; as shown through the creation and subsequent impact of the Expo 1967 Indian Pavilion.
Podcast of an interview with a playwright whose work focuses on the cycle of incarceration of women and the effect this has on their children.
Duration: 29:44.
Contemporaneity, vol. 5, Agency in Motion: Agency & Reenactment in Visual Culture, 2016, pp. [5]-26
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Argues "that Luna's performances comment not only upon western preconceptions of Native Americans, but also upon the ways that Native Americans have historically reasserted their agency by manipulating such expectations, staging themselves to fit the stereotype."
An interview with Jason Edward Lewis discussing his work to empower Indigenous youth to use technology as a means to connect and share their own Indigenous culture.
Jessie Caldwell standing with future Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and his wife Marion. Jessie introduced Mr. Pearson at his nomination convention in Winnipeg. The theme of the convention was Western. Note the cowboy attire on Caldwell and Indian head-dress on Pearson.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 25-57
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Review of the film, The Mission, that contends the underlying message in it is to free the colonizers of their guilt and doubt, which undermines the film's central allegory of physical and spiritual genocide of conquered Native Americans.
Contends that programs and services must respond to the compounding effects of oppression and repeated exposure to violence that young Aboriginal women face.
Interview with artist about portrait series Perceptions, which addresses racism. Describes portraits taken of Aboriginal people in two lights.
Duration: 19:57.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Fall, 2003, pp. 840-861
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Commentary originating from the American Studies Association 2002 meeting, individual activists are featured as well as concerns regarding research ethics.