Artist discusses her career and work shown in exhibition Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists. Transcript available.
Duration: 18:44.
Transcript.
Ethnohistory, vol. 20, no. 2, Spring, 1973, pp. 153-171
Description
Discusses the history of distortions in portrayal of Aboriginals, gives brief descriptions of several movies, and examines steps needed to correct the situation.
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
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Sketch showing the surrender to French's Scouts, led by Lord Melgund, General Middleton's chief of staff. Sketch caption : "Three Dakota scouts told their captors that they had been forced to join Riel."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Visual Arts Research, vol. 35, no. 1, Summer, 2009, pp. 76-90
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Discusses insights gained from a study of the impact of a three year Native American arts-enrichment program taught in two off-Reservation schools in California.
Photograph. On information card: Ten year old log cabin with extended tent porch in Chipewyan trappers camp. Dungevan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
Discusses the cross-cultural historical importance of corroborees (theatrical performances) in 19th-century Australia.
Chapter 7 from Creating White Australia edited by Jane Carey, Claire McLisky. Scroll down to access article.
English Studies in Canada, vol. 35, no. 1, [Special Issue: Aboriginal Redress], March 2009, pp. 85-107
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Discusses how a series of quilts were created to give a historical account of the residential school experience, help people to heal, and encourage reconciliation between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginal Canadians.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 95-98
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Book review of: Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, The Moon in Two Windows by N. Scott Momaday.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 95.
Speaker discusses her curatorial practices with special reference to developing the exhibition Through Their Eyes: Paintings from the Santa Fe Indian School.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 4, 2009, pp. 1-28
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Overview of the Fort Armstrong Centennial Celebration and the 1916 participation of the Meskwaki people as a deliberate strategy to present their culture to their non-American Indian neighbors.
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.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 29, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 165-182
Description
Examines how storytelling in theater, by the representation of past and present, history and myth and through the performance of the rituals of sacrifice, can perform a humanistic healing act.
Sketch subtitle: White inhabitants of the Saskatchewan region leaving a settlement after an Indian raid. Two males and one female, all wearing snowshoes and heavy coats, walking through the snow. The woman is carrying a small child.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 11, November 2009, p. 26
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Outlines the varied career of Lorne Cardinal, the first Aboriginal graduate in performing arts from the University of Alberta.
Article located by scrolling to page 26.
Comments on an exhibition at Grunt Gallery featuring a portrait series of Aboriginal people.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to page 8.
Two boys battle it out in a break dance challenge and kids in town start developing inappropriate behaviours in episode 25 of a stop-motion animation series.
Duration: 24:00.
Two boys ask the same girl to their class dance and must find a way to resolve their romantic conflict in episode 21 of a stop-motion animation series.
Duration: 24:00.
Study guide to accompany film, Wapos Bay: Raiders of the Lost Art. Oriented toward elementary school students; contains an episode description, background information, previewing and post-viewing activities and questions which pertain to the key themes.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 84-91
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Reviews of 3 books:
War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indians War Prisoners by Brad D. Lookingbill.
A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook From Fort Marion by Phillip Earenfight.
Art From Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M. Szabo.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll to page 84.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 10, October 2009, p. 24
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Comments on the character in the movie Wayne's World 2 as spurring an idea for the Saskatchewan playwright to finish an earlier version of his script Act of Elusion.
Article located by scrolling to page 24.
Photo of illustration made from photograph of White Cap, Sioux Chief, pledging friendship to his white brother, taken from Illustrated War News, 25 April 1885.
American Theatre, vol. 26, no. 3, March 2009, p. 23
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Brief discussion of the play Battles of Fire and Water by Dave Hunsaker. The playwright used oral and written histories about battles (in 1802 and 1804) fought by Russians and the Tlingits over land, as the basis for the play.
A photograph of William Bleasdell Cameron, guide and scout with the Alberta Field Force, with Horse Child, 12 year old son of Big Bear. They were photographed together in Regina in 1885 during the trial of Big Bear. Cameron testified in Big Bear's defense. Cameron wrote a description of the photo on the reverse side which was also scanned for this record.