This file contains excerpts from Reginald Beatty's diary, correspondence about his encounters with Cree people, and letters home to his parents detailing his experience in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Mr. Beatty was a farmer and fur trader in what is now known as the Melfort area of Saskatchewan.
Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linc Kesler
Larry Grant
Coll Thrush
Neil Safier
Shaunee Casavant
Nika Collison
Tirso Gonzaez
Sheryl Lightfoot
Description
Webcast of Global Encounters Initiative Symposium called Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame held at the University of British Columbia, March 4-6, 2010. Panel discussion begins at 36:41.
Duration: 2:24:18.
This documentary reflects on Kainai (Blood tribe) history, governance, survival, and living culture as it explores the repatriation of artifacts from Europeans.
Duration: 1:9:39.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 113-127
Description
Curators of the exhibition Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories describe project which brought together art, activism, history, Indigenous youth, and the wider public to "amplify the artist’s insistence that all of us consider our collective responsibilities to this earth".
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 409-422
Description
Author examines different frameworks and themes related to mixed ethnicities/identities and considers how these factors might motivate an author to create mixed characters.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 1-30
Description
Author examines the #IndigenousReads campaign, considering it as a case study of reconciliatory gestures made by the Canadian Government; points out that reconciliation projects rely too heavily on the work of Indigenous writers and scholars, and fail to build cross-cultural relationships.
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.
English Studies in Canada, vol. 43, no. 2-3, Special Issue: Transition, June/September 2017, pp. 69-90
Description
Also available Open Access here.
Article examines the ways in which Indigenous writers and scholars interrogate the framework of Reconciliation by creating a narrative of resurgence. Author additionally argues for the need to examine the pedagogy and process when including Indigenous literatures in educational settings.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 85-143
Description
Book reviews of:
The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage by Gerald Vizenor.
Nairne's Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River edited by Alexander Moore.
The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Captive of Maquinna annotated and illustrated by Hilary Stewart.
A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson edited by W. David Baird.
Native American Baskertry: An Annotated Bibliography complied by Frank W.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 125-178
Description
Book review of:
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson.
Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations and Traditions by Alexander Posey.
Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast by Michelene E. Pesantubbee.
A Colonial Complex: South Carolina’s Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War 1680–1730 by Steven J.
File contains a presentation by Jim Andersen. Andersen discusses his life in Makkovik and the struggles he has gone through, as well as his great interest in the struggles of Aboriginal people to attain their rightful place in Confederation.
Panelists discuss theatre as an expression of identity and cultural practice, how personal experience is interwoven in their projects, and how their work manifests their connections to their homelands and ancestral knowledges.
Film depicts the family’s progress from a proud Chiricahua Apache family of storytellers in Oklahoma to a multi-talented artistic family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Duration: 32:17.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 63-73
Description
Article documents the author’s interview with the novelist Anna Lee Walters about her novel Ghost Singer and includes corrections and clarifications sent by Walters after reading the transcript of the interview. Includes commentary on the text, literature, cultural interactions.