Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 12-18
Description
Author uses personal experiences to explain the stresses involved with understanding two cultures relating to values, activities, obedience, worldview and contemporary cultural tools.
Discusses the cancellation of the Great Whale Project by Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau and why the Cree and many others are pleased about the decision.
Duration: 2:26.
Western American Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 46-64
Description
Discusses play which compares quilting perspectives of quiltmaker Mona Gray, who sees quilts as a link to family and LuAnne Jorgensen, a customer who sees them as a commodity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, pp. 119-145
Description
Discusses the metaphorical surrealism in Jim Denomie paintings showing historical and contemporary events in American and Native American history, as well as aspects of pop-culture, art history and Anglo-Indian relations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 167-186
Description
Analyzes Ford's controversial portrayals and images of American Indians in his many films. Some critics see his works as depicting savages or brutal warriors and others see nobility, sympathy and a resistance to the loss of cultural identity and a refusal to bow to the dominant Anglo-American society.
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 53, no. 1, January 2011, pp. 75-78
Description
Suggests that racial profiling practices should be scrutinized andargues that media publicity plays an important role in creating the pressure for change.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 241-257
Description
Looks at a study on the depictions of Native Americans on the video web site YouTube. The article focuses on viewers' ratings and reactions, considering both stereotypical and counterstereotypical racial representations of Indians.
Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 40, no. 3, 1994, pp. 509-542
Description
Discusses photography, its use for family records and these three novels about Australian women seeking personal meaning in old pictures, which leave them to untangle the story of before and after the photo.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, pp. 147-166
Description
Looks at Belmore's creative work that uses both the living histories of indigenous people as cultural memory, and telling as a political act that is part of the total experience.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 99-113
Description
Discusses the cultural dislocation and identity confusion created by the imposition of one culture on another.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Discusses six films: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Rabbit Proof Fence, Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider, Ten Canoes and The Feathers of Peace.
Chapter in book: New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past edited by Alistair Fox, Hilary Radner and Barry Keith.
[2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences]
[Big Thinking Series]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Beverly Diamond
Description
Video of speech by Trudeau Fellow and Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music. Discusses how cultural expressions such as Indigenous performance can define cross-cultural engagement and redefine cultural stereotypes.
Duration: 01:09:11.
Concentric, vol. 37, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 231-253
Description
Re-reading of the American classic, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, exploring author's choice to narrate the story from the perspective of the character of the Native American chief.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 13, no. 2, January 1974, pp. [14-20]
Description
Explains that a Chilocco School (Bureau of Indian Affairs) employs a full-time reading teacher and teacher aide which results in better reading ability.
Documentary investigates the resource boom's effects on the Indigenous people of Peru.
Episode of The Nature of Things which aired July 7, 2011.
Duration: 1:22:47.