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TED Talks
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Aaron Huey
Description
Talk by the photographer and activist accompanies slide show of his photographs taken at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In it, he talks about the history of the government's treatment of the Sioux and how it has led to the appalling circumstances present on the Reservation today.
Duration: 15:27.
Aboriginal Artists use Cola Bottles as Inspiration
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andréa Ledding
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 11, February 2010, pp. 17-18
Description
Brief article on an Aboriginal artists work chosen to be on display at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.
Aboriginal Enterprises: Negotiating an Urban Aboriginality
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sylvia Kleinert
Aboriginal History, vol. 34, 2010, pp. 171-[196]
Description
Looks at a business which manufactured artifacts, furnishings, bark paintings, didjeridus and sold a range of small objects.
Aboriginal Tourism and Traditional Basket Weaving on Prince Edward Island
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amber Jadis
Description
Overview of tourism and statistics from market research study on awareness of Aboriginal tourism and basket weaving market potential.
Alan Syliboy - [Windspeaker Confidential]
Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 11, February 2010, p. 13
Description
Interview with Aboriginal artist Alan Syliboy.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.13.
Andrew Qappik: Pangnirtung Memories
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Darlene Coward Wight
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 22-26
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from April 29 to August 1, 2010.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 22.
[Artist Lecture: Nicholas Galanin]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Nicholas Galanin
Description
Multi-media artist speaks about the various series he has created. Presented as part of the It's Complicated: Art about Home exhibition. Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:09:58.
Artist Profile: Angelique Merasty
Documents & Presentations
Description
Biography of famed birch bark biter.
Barry Pottle's Photography Explores Inuit Objectification by ID Tags
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Adams
Globe and Mail, March 24, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the Awareness Series by Barry Pottle about the identification tag system implemented by the Canadian government.
Beads: Symbols of Indigenous Cultural Resilience and Value
Theses
Author/Creator
Malinda Joy Gray
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2017.
Beauty and Resilience: Reclaiming Métis History and Women's Traditions in the Beaded Paintings of Christi Belcourt
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rebecca Baird
Description
Analyzes Christi Belcourt's artistic research methods.
Becoming First Americans: Explaining a Polybian-Indian Movement in the American Southeast
Theses
Author/Creator
Reyda L. Taylor
Description
[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2010.
Beyond a Number: Inuit Photo Exhibit Brings Controversial 'Eskimo' I.D. System to Light
Alternate Title
Day 6 ; episode 348, July 28, 2017
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Barry Pottle
[Jelena Adzic]
Description
Podcast of Interview with artist about his exhibition Awareness Series which focuses on the government's policy of issuing numbered disks to Inuit rather than referring to them by name.
Duration: 6:54.
The Blackfeet Buckskin Shirt
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[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.
Blackfoot Warrior Shirts
Alternate Title
Lesson Plan: Blackfoot Winter Counts and their Stories
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
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.
Designed for Grade 2 language arts, but can be adapted to other levels.
Book Review:The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Deana Dartt-Newton
Exhibitionist, vol. 29, no. 1, Exhibition Frictions, Spring, 2010, pp. 96-98
Description
Reviews a collection of essays edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb.
Brian Jungen, Selected Works & Interview
Alternate Title
fARTiculate
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Morgan
Brian Jungen
Description
Interview with noted sculptor who uses mass-produced consumer goods in his works.
Circling the Truth
Alternate Title
Borderviews
[RESERVE(d) Review]
Articles » General
Border Crossings, vol. 29, no. 2, 2010, p. 20
Description
Reviews the exhibition RESERVE(d) by Caroline Monnet and Kevin Lee Burton mounted at the Urban Shaman Gallery.
Coast Salish Textiles: From ‘Stilled Fingers’ to Spinning an Identity
Alternate Title
Textile Society of America 12th Biennial Symposium, 2010
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings; paper 59
Textiles and Settlement: From the Plains Space to Cyber Space
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eileen Wheeler
Description
Discusses the weaving revival which has taken place among Musqueam and Stó:lo women.
The Commodification of Polynesian Tattooing: Change, Persistence, and Reinvention of a Cultural Tradition
Theses
Author/Creator
Rachel Robinson
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2010.
Commodifications of the Past? An IPinCH KnowledgeBase Bibliography
Alternate Title
Commodifications of the Past? An IPinCH Knowledge Base Bibliography
Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage: Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Herbert
Description
Lists 208 publications (articles, letters, websites, webpages, government documents, and books) deemed to be of interest to the Commodifications of the Past? Working Group from the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) research project.
The Concept of Duality in Culture and Myths of Lakota Indians
Theses
Author/Creator
Klára Perlíková
Description
[Ethnology] Thesis (Ph.D)--Univerzita Karlova [Charles University], 2017
Connect and Divide: The Cell: A Conversation with Edward Poitras
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Border Zones.ca: The Ideas Behind the Exhibit, 23 January-12 September 2010
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Karen Duffek
Edward Poitras
Description
Artist discusses his work in terms of the concept of boundaries in relation to communities and individuals.
Duration: 9:08.
Conquest, Consequences, Restoration: The Art of Rebecca Belmore
Theses
Author/Creator
Kathleen Marie Deblassie
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of New Mexico, 2010.
Contemporary Interpretation of an Unusual Navajo Weaving Technique
Alternate Title
Textile Society of America 12th Biennial Symposium, 2010
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings; paper 35
Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Connie Lippert
Description
Looks at a form of weaving that was practiced only for about 20 years.
Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Contemporary Inuit Drawing
Theses
Author/Creator
Nancy Campbell
Description
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.
Creative Arts, Culture, and Healing: Building an Evidence Base
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Archibald
Jonathan Dewar
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 3, Winter, 2010, pp. 1-25
Description
Looks at the difficulty to design, implement, and fund a healing program.
Cross-Curricular Connect: The Last of the Buffalo
Author/Creator
McQuillen Studios
Description
Resource uses the painting by Albert Bierstadt to teach close reading skills, allegory and the importance of wildlife conservation. Includes links to interactive puzzle, team-building game, sorting activity, game-based art survey and inquiry study.
Cultural imPRINT: A History of Northwest Coast Native and First Nations Prints
Theses
Author/Creator
India Rael Young
Description
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2017.
Includes biographies of Robert Davidson, Roy Henry Vickers, Marvin Oliver, and Susan Point.
Curatorial Practice in Anthropology: Organized Space and Knowledge Production
Theses
Author/Creator
Shelby Richardson
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2012.
Cyrus Dallin's The Scout: Civic Identity Cast through a Native
Equestrian Monument
Theses
Author/Creator
Edward Albert Bear
Description
[Global Indigenous Nations Studies] Thesis--University of Kansas, 2019.
Dana Claxton, The Mustang Suite and Hybrid Humour
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amber Berson
Description
Artist's own experiences as a hybrid subject influence her work and represents the reality of most Aboriginal people today. Includes annotated photographs from exhibition.
Deaconess Winifred Hilliard and the Cultural Brokerage of the Ernabella Craft Room
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diana J. B. Young
Aboriginal History Journal, vol. 41, 2017, pp. 71-94
Description
Discusses the Presbyterian missionary's time with the Anangu, her role as both an art and intercultural broker, and her book, The People In Between: The Pitjantjatjara Peoples of Ernabella.
Discursive and Mediatic Battles in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water
Theses
Author/Creator
Carlos Eduardo Meneghetti Scholles
Description
Modern Foreign Literatures [?]--Universidade Federal do Grande do Sul, 2010.
Discussing Portraiture, Representation and the Social Consequences of Photography: A Photographic Conversation Between Jeff Thomas and Edward S. Curtis
Alternate Title
Picturing Children and Youth: A Canadian Perspective
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Zoe Koke
Description
Discusses the interconnectivity between past and present in photographs by Jeff Thomas and Edward S. Curtis.
Disposable Red Woman: Guerrilla Art
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Destin RunningRabitt
Iman Bukhari
Description
Guerrilla art display was placed on various streets in Calgary with the hope of evoking empathy and a sense of urgency in society to intervene with this injustice. Artists filmed the public's reactions.
Duration: 4:55.
Economic Impact Study: Nunavut Arts and Crafts: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nordicity Group
Uqsiq Communications
Description
Analysis of commercial arts and crafts sector includes direct and indirect economic impact, value chain profile, artists profile, market and sales channels, tools and materials, and challenges and strengths.
Entrepreneur Gets Hand Up From Dragons
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Ashawasegai
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 7, October 2010, pp. 20-21
Description
Introduction to Quemeez, a handmade baby moccasin-making company, and the entrepreneurial story behind them.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.
Exploring the Relocation Experiences of Female Indigenous Youth in Foster Care through Storywork
Theses
Author/Creator
Cheryl Inkster
Description
Counselling Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2017.
First Peoples' Heritage, Language & Culture Council
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
First Peoples’ Heritage
Language and Culture Council
Description
Website contains consultation, guidance, support and funding for First Nations’ people of British Columbia’s communities for language, arts and culture projects.
"Free Your Mind," from the Series Crazymaking (2007)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tania Willard
BC Studies, no. 193, Spring, 2017, p. 5
Description
Brief statement by cover artist and description of her work as a curator.
Geology of National Parks, 3D and Photographic Tours: American Indians of the Southwest, 1871-1875
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
U.S. Department of the Interior
Description
Websites includes photographs of American Indians posing in Aboriginal dress or activities during the U.S. Geological and Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian and the Powell Survey of the Colorado River Canyons.
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery – Classroom Activities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Education Office
Description
Focuses on portraits of Indigenous subjects painted by George Catlin, who traveled the United States during the 1830s to capture images of the "vanishing race". Includes general historical background, extracts from primary sources, and exercises and discussion questions.
Germaine Arnktauyok: An Inner Sight
Articles » General
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 16-23
Description
Brief biography of the Inuit painter and printmaker.
Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 16 to read article.
Glimpsing Our Past: An Archival Photo Project
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nadine Charabin
Paula Daigle
Andy Miller
Saskatchewan History, vol. 69, no. 1, Winter, 2017-2018, pp. 5-7
Description
Describes a project undertaken collaboratively by First Nations University (FNU) in Regina, the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan (PAS), and the Pasqua First Nation, to research and provide better descriptive information for a number of photos of First Nations people in the FNU library.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 5.
A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Bernardin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 121-125
Description
Book reveiw of: A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function by Eric Gansworth.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 121.
High Tech Storytellers, Unsettling Acts, Decolonizing Pedagogies
Alternate Title
INDIANacts: Aboriginal Performance Art Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lynne Bell
Lori Blondeau
James Luna
Rebecca Belmore
Description
Focuses on two performance pieces: James Luna's The Chapel of the Sacred Colours and Rebecca Belmore's The Indian Factory.
History of Cape Dorset and the West Baffin Co-operative
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jennifer Alsop
Description
Discusses associations which were established to encourage production and marketing of Inuit artworks
I Am But a Little Woman
Alternate Title
Nunavut Animation Lab
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gyu Oh
Description
Animated version of a poem written in 1927. No dialogue. Acommpanying material: I am But a Little Woman: Lesson Plan.
Duration: 4:39.