Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 2, Summer , 2015, pp. 42-[47]
Description
Interviews delegates, asking for their thoughts about Inuit art at the Biennale and the importance of the international Indigenous voice.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.
Speaker describes the "Views from the North" project which involved students from Nunavut Sivuniksavut showing Elders from their community photographs housed at Library and Archives Canada and interviewing them about images.
Duration: 41:37.
Looks at the history and contemporary life of the Abenaki and the importance of basket making to their way of life.
Duration: 1:44:05.
Accompanying material.
To accompany We Were Children, a film about the damage caused by the residential school system in Canada.
Designed to support delivery of a four-hour workshop and Power Point presentation.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 153-159
Description
Literary criticism article which examines the ways that contemporary queer and Two-Spirit authors are creating a cultural resurgence and decolonizing Indigenous sexualities.
Talk by the creator of large-scale art installation comprised of objects gathered at the sites of residential schools across Canada.
Duration: 1:24:11.
Kevin Loring discusses the evolution of his play, which was featured at the National Arts Centre's English Theatre. Play focuses on the effects of residential schools.
Duration: 28:11.
American Theatre, vol. 26, no. 3, March 2009, p. 23
Description
Brief discussion of the play Battles of Fire and Water by Dave Hunsaker. The playwright used oral and written histories about battles (in 1802 and 1804) fought by Russians and the Tlingits over land, as the basis for the play.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, Fall, 2000, pp. 20-27
Description
Comments on the new experiences, including moving pictures and fireworks, brought to Inuit on the coast of the Foxe Peninsula in the winter of 1921-22.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, Summer, 1994, pp. 4-13
Description
Comments on an exhibition which presents a visual record of Inuit life and social history by highlighting the work of 12 textile artists.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.
Four women from across Canada who are artists, scholars, activists discuss topics such as racism, leadership, contemporary life, culture, popular misconceptions about Aboriginal peoples, and cross cultural relations.
Duration: 1:22:38.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 46-62
Description
The author uses Out of the Depths, Isabel Knockwood’s autobiography about her time in Indian Residential School, to discuss English alphabet writing as a colonizing tool and as consider different ways that Indigenous peoples have appropriated English writing as a form of cultural survivance.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 144, Theatre in an Age of Eco-Crisis, Fall, 2010, pp. 42-47
Description
Interview in which the artist discusses the development of her kinetic performance sculpture which won the “Best Western Entry” in the Calgary Stampede parade.
The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative. Pt. 2
[2003 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Thomas King
Description
In speech, the noted author discusses stereotypes such as the noble savage and vanishing Indian as portrayed in the photographs of Thomas Curtis, and contemporary concepts of what constitutes an "authentic" identity. To listen to this audio, scroll down to Part 2.
Duration: 54:22.