A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
The history of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, is detailed from pre-contact to the arrival of Jean Etienne Waden, first European in the La Ronge area, to present-day businesses, schools and churches in the town; numerous photographs.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, [Special Issue: Culture, Heritage, and Art], 2006, pp. 197-214
Description
Discusses the challenges associated with displaying historical objects in a gallery, such as the presentation of works from a non-Indigenous conception of artistic value.
Analyzes the kinds of art that are deemed acceptable as Aboriginal and discusses the ways the Barkindji people in Wilcannia deal with issues pertaining to the politics of culture, cultural subjectivity and identity.
Traces changes in Western attitudes toward the classification of objects and the subsequent evolution of the terminology used to refer to them.
Chapter 17 from Handbook of Material Culture edited by Chris Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer.
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.
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 300-326
Description
Article considers the early work of Nathan Jackson and discusses the ways that his paintings, prints, and textile works blend traditional Tlingit designs, patterns, and colour schemes with modernist elements.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 39, no. 1/2, 2007, pp. 219-224
Description
Reviews 3 books:
Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr by Gerta Moray.
Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas edited by Donald Ellis.
Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon Charles C.Hill, Johanne Lamoureux, Ian M. Thom, curators ; essays by Jay Steward and Peter Macnair ... [et al.]
Photographies, vol. 3, no. 2, Photography, Archive and Memory, 2010, pp. 173-187
Description
Explains the current role of the archive in terms of showing engagement between white settlers and Indigenous people and also to assist with the recovery of family and stories that have been lost through colonization in Australia.
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.
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 18, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 93-116
Description
Looks at artwork made for a specific location and then dismantled and relocated to other areas. Focuses on Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's site specific artwork in Pedal to the Meddle commissioned for the exhibition, Meddling in the Museum: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. His art uses Haida formlines, ideas and oral history mixed with manga, the Japanese genre of cartoon and comic illustration.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 180-189
Description
Describes an arts based research project which uses graffiti art to make Haudenosaunee symbols and images accessible and relevant for Indigenous youth. Discusses cultural bridging and exchange, decolonization, identity, cultural values, and Indigenous solidarity.
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.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 1, February 1992, pp. 29-43
Description
Assesses two major museum exhibits as individual projects and as illustrations of broader issues concerning the representation of Native Americans: Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Chiefly Feast: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch at the American Museum of Natural History.0892-8339
Brief description of William Barak's life and leadership at the Coranderrk settlement and his efforts to preserve aspects of Aboriginal tradition in his art.