Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 139-141
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Book reviews of:
Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.
Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing by Simon Ortiz.
Full issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 139 to read reviews.
Tradition and Innovation: Advances in Conservation: Contributions to the Melbourne Congress, 10-14 October, 2000
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Charles S. Rhyne
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Discusses the tensions between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal viewpoints about the issue of preservation, and provides examples of attempts to reconcile the two.
Excerpt from: Tradition and Innovation: Advances in Conservation Contributions to the Melbourne Congress, 10-14 October 2000.
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 126-129
Description
Book reviews of:
The Star-Man and Other Tales by Basil H. Johnston and Jonas George
Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art by Judith Ostrowitz
The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art by Allan J. Rayan
What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp and George Littlechild Mythic Beings: Spirit of the Northwest Coast by Gary Wyatt.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Summer, 2000, pp. 18-26
Description
Looks at the strategies of two curators involved in planning the First Peoples Hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 11, no. 1, New Series, 2000, pp. 87-108
Description
Discusses the Royal visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later George V and Queen Mary), the ceremonies held and review of the extensive related archival records.
BC Studies, no. 125/126, Spring/Summer, 2000, pp. 147-162
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Discusses how Emily Carr's idealized view of First Nations glossed over many of the social problems they faced; and how she chose to share images of what she viewed was the "vanishing" or "disappearing" Indian.
Drama Review / T D R: The Journal of Performance Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, Fall, 2000, pp. 11-36
Description
Discusses the decolonization process, which the author states is accomplished by, "moving the center", in this case, from Europe to their own centers. The writer concludes that "underneath the new globalized skin" is the same Euro-defined ethnicity, carrying the same biases that are written into scripts.
Rebuttal to Hoover's critique of the article written by Gloria Frank regarding the permanent First Peoples Exhibit
at the Royal British Columbia Museum.
Response to an article which critiques the permanent First Peoples Exhibit at the Royal British Columbia Museum from a Aboriginal perspective; contends that while a personal viewpoint is legitimate, article does not have the research and knowledge to support some of criticisms.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 177-223
Description
Book reviews of:
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians by Fray Ramon Pané, José Juan Arrom et al.
American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920 by Brian C.
BC Studies, no. 125/126, Ethnographic Eyes, Spring/Summer, 2000, pp. 163-178
Description
Explores First Nations person's response to the permanent First Peoples exhibit at the Royal British Columbia Museum, in Victoria, B.C. and museum depictions of Aboriginal cultures in general.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 2000, pp. 165-181
Description
Article engages in a postmodernist cultural critique of the process of “inverted appropriation” in which an oppressed or marginalized culture makes use of the technological or cultural pieces of the dominant cultures as a way of resisting assimilation and erasure.
Virtual exhibition deals with contemporary artists' response to past colonization.
Contains links to: Tolerating Tourists, Changing Reservation Realities, School Bells and Haircuts, and Beyond Smoke and Mirrors.