Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3, Summer, 2015, pp. 301-307
Description
Book review essay:
The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian by Shamoon Zamir.
For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 105-123
Description
Looks at Poolaw's technique of dramatically posing subjects which he gained through film-making experience and provides an overview of various photographs taken.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3-4, Nunutsiavut!, Fall/Winter, 2015, pp. [22]-29
Description
Looks at the absence of Nunatsiavut art from the art market and delves into the reasons why.
Entire issue on one pdf. To locate article, scroll to page 22.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, pp. 98-111
Description
Looks at two groups photographed and interviewed for the project: First Nations youth from Calgary, Alberta and Te Ora Hou, a Maori youth organization in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Records in the Margaret Baker fonds collection tell the story of the development of the Wahpeton reserve and Lucy Baker's activities as a missionary teacher. Reflects stereotypical views of the time.
Canada's History, vol. 95, no. 3, June-July 2015, p. 19
Description
Contains a plea from the Hudson Bay Company Archives asking for help identifying people from thousands of photographs taken in northern Canadian communities from 1920 to 1960.
Interview with artist about portrait series Perceptions, which addresses racism. Describes portraits taken of Aboriginal people in two lights.
Duration: 19:57.
Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada
[Cultural Studies Series]
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Author/Creator
Claudette Lauzon
Description
Discusses the photographic series Scouting for Indians which documents and challenges mainstream representations of Aboriginals.
Excerpt from Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada edited by Kirsty Robertson and J. Kerri Cronin.
Looks at the dominant visual representations of Native Americans and the use of photography as a form of resistance to racist photographic representations.
Alaska State Museums Bulletin, no. 43, August 23, 2011, p. [?]
Description
Overview of the use of photography to portray the indigenous populations and in mapping and surveying during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes photographs
Matika Wilbur shares photographs and stories from Project 562, her multi-year project to document members of federally recognized tribes in the United States.
Duration: 1:42:58.
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 108-111
Description
Book reviews of: Return to the Land of the Head Hunters edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To read this review scroll to p. 108.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-185
Description
Book reviews of:
2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick.
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie.
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer.
Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.
George Lutz recounts stories while living at Mandan, North Dakota and helping his father Rolland produce thousands of postcards of Native Americans. Includes photographs.
Discusses pictures taken by students attending the Rainy Mountain and Phoenix Indian Schools and how these images differ from those taken by official photographers.