Short film, composed entirely of children's drawings, illustrates life at Christmas time in an old settlement on the shore of James Bay.
Duration: 13:08.
Native Studies Review, vol. 20, no. 1, 2011, pp. 89-116
Description
Reports on research project based on a three day workshop adapted from David Diamond and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. Involved youth from the File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council area.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 6, June 2011, p. 18
Description
Looks at a program, funded by Sask Culture and the Old Timers Museum in Maple Creek, designed to encourage youth to participate in powwow.
Article located by scrolling to page 18.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 9, September 2011, p. 24
Description
Looks at the importance of the powwow and how its revitalization is helping the youth learn about past traditions.
Article found by scrolling to page 24.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-185
Description
Book reviews of:
2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick.
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie.
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer.
Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 148, Fall, 2011, pp. 25-31
Description
Describes initiative undertaken by Twin Fish and urban ink theatre groups in Williams Lake, British Columbia. Project involved youth in the development of a short play entitled Damed if You Do, What it Don't as part media and performance training.
Elders present songs and prayers with discussion about the loss of traditions and values, evils of alcohol, role of elders, etc. Also stories of adventures in intertribal warfare ; a story of a man who married a thunderwoman.