Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce Granville Miller
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 81-94
Description
Author--who is an anthropologist specializing in Coast Salish culture, a member and chair of the collections committee, and a board member of the Museum--discusses several examples of repatriating objects, and the process of developing a formal policy.
Report on the Impact of Inauthentic Art and Craft in the Style of Frist Nations Peoples
E-Books
Author/Creator
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs
Representations of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canadian Art
Theses
Author/Creator
Yasmin Juliet Strautins
Description
Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2018.
Focuses on five case studies: Vigil by Rebecca Belmore; Redress by Jamie Black; The Forgotten by Pamela Masik; Walking With Our Sisters by Christi Belcourt; and Shades of Our Sisters created by Ryerson University students and produced by Maggie Cywink, Alex Cywink and Joyce Carpenter.
Residential School Gothic and Red Power: Genre Friction in Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Henderson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 43-66
Description
Article offers a critical review of the film Rhymes for Young Ghouls; asserts that the film intentionally juxtaposes the genres and conventions of the Gothic novel and the Red Power-era exploitation film and in doing so creates a new genre which the author calls the Residential School Gothic.
Resilience
Alternate Title
Resilience Teaching Guide
Resilience, The National Billboard Exhibition Project
The Resilient Body
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Lee-Ann Martin
Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA)
[Yvette Cenerini
Lita Fontaine
Dawn Knight
Albert McLeod]
Description
Website for a project which saw 50 artworks by Indigenous women artists exhibited on billboards across the country.
Includes links to images of works accompanied by artists' statement, curatorial essay and Teaching Guide.
Rethinking Image and Narrative at the Heart of Empire: Notes from Indigenous London
Alternate Title
Frank Davis Memorial Lectures 2018
Art History: Decentred Recentred
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Coll Thrush
Description
Presenter discusses how there has been a record of an Indigenous travelers to London dating as far back as 1502, which debunks the common attitude that Indigenous peoples and urbanity and modernity are mutually exclusive.
Duration: 48:36
Revitalization Strategies in Gaspar Pedro González’s A Mayan Life
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reginald Dyck
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 179-199
Description
Provides a close reading with literary cricism of González’s novel which is set during the Guatemalan civil war. Author examines the Maya responses to this conflict in the context of the social, political, and economic factors, and discusses issues of cultural revitalization, Maya self-determination, education and leadership.
The Riel Rebellion - A Battery Going to the Front
Archival » Archival Items
Haper's Weekly
Description
Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan.
Published in Harper's Weekly, May 9, 1885 [Page] 297.
No article associated with this image in the newspaper.
Drawn by T. De Thulstrup from sketches in the Toronto "War News."
Riel Rebellion Period Newspapers
Articles » General
Description
A series of 1885 newspapers with articles covering the Saskatchewan Uprising. Includes The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times of May 16, 1885, the Montreal Daily Herald and the Daily Commercial Gazette of July 8, 1885. Papers cover the battles of Batoche and Cut Knife Hill.
Riel Rebellion troops in the Touchwood Hills
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Oliver B. Buell
Description
Riel Rebellion troops (Canadian militia?) in the Touchwood Hills, east of Humboldt, en route to Long Lake, N.W.T. Man on white horse is General Middleton, according to Aboriginal archivist Wes Fineday. (See RDB). There were several successive HBC fur trade ports in Touchwood Hills. Note telegraph poles.
Robert Houle: Life & Work
Alternate Title
Robert Houle: Life and Work
E-Books
Author/Creator
Shirley Madill
The Rock Art Areas of Victoria: An Initial Comparison
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. G. Gunn
Aboriginal History, vol. 8, no. 2, 1984, pp. 189-202
Description
Summarizes the art locations into one major concentration, three smaller and two anomalous sites.
The Role of Native Women in the Fur Trade Society of Western Canada, 1670-1830
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sylvia Van Kirk
Frontiers, vol. 7, no. 3, Women on the Western Frontier, 1984, pp. 9-13
Description
Looks at the contributions made by women including trapping small animals, making moccasins and preservation of food.
Ron J. Camponi Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Ron J. Camponi
Judy Thibodeau
Indian History Film Project
Description
The interview is an account of Ron J. Camponi's life.
Rose Bertha Fleury #1 Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Rose Bertha Fleury
Brenda Arnault
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes a general account of Rose Bertha Fleury's life.
Sapangat: Inuit Beadwork in the Canadian Arctic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bernadette Driscoll
Expedition, Winter, 1984, pp. 40-47
Description
Focuses on the decoration found on amautik (women's parkas) from the northwest coast of Hudson Bay.
The Saskatchewan rebellion - Newspaper clipping and sketch. - 18 April 1885.
Documents & Presentations
Description
Note: The description of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library.
A short article on the ongoing Northwest Resistance and some biographical information and a sketch of Louis Riel from the perspective of an Eastern Canadian Newspaper. Includes a large sketch of Louis Riel "in his costume of a Canadian half-breed."
School Days for Me and the Museum: Commentary on Remembering Our Indian School Days, a Landmark Exhibit at the Heard Museum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rayna Green
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 57, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 30-36
Description
A personal reflection by one of the curators in charge of bringing a boarding school exhibit together.
Second of Two Cree Women Who Surrendered at Battleford
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Portrait of the second of two Cree women who surrendered at Battleford in early July 1885
Sentry Box in Prince Albert during Rebellion (some question as to info)
Images » Photographs
Description
The individual in the photograph is on guard duty at a sentry post at Prince Albert, NWT, 1885. A few possibilities exist for what this photograph represents. It appears to be a Northwest Mounted Police man (note the pith helmet), or less likely, a member of the Prince Albert Volunteers, or the Prince Albert Home Guard taken during the "siege" of Prince Albert.
Shared Inuit Culture: European Museums and Arctic Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cunera Buijs
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, Arctic Collections and Museology: Presentations, Disseminations, and Interpretations, 2018, pp. 37-59
Description
Article examines 13 different collaborative partnerships in which communities participated in collaborative curation with large museums. Discusses some of the controversial ethical and ownership issues that are related to mounting an exhibit, and to decolonizing museum practice.
Sioux Chief Whitecap
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
O.B. Buell
Description
A head and torso portrait of Chief Whitecap of the Moose Woods Reserve, now called the Whitecap Dakota First Nation. Photo taken in Regina in 1885 after the North West Resistance. Whitecap reportedly saved the people of Saskatoon from massacre at the time of the resistance. The Dakota people under his leadership fled the U.S. Cavalry for Canada in ca. 1862.
Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders
Alternate Title
Indigenous Americas
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessie Little Doe Baird
Omar Barghouti
Lisa Brooks
Kathleen A. Brown-Pérez
Margaret Bruchac ...
David Cornsilk
Sarah Deer
Philip J. Deloria
Tonya Gonnella Frichner
Hone Harawira
Suzan Shown Harjo
Winona LaDuke ...
James Luna
Mutáwi Mutáhash (Many Hearts) Lynn Malerba
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Steven Newcomb
Jean M. O’Brien
Jonathan Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio ...
Paul Chaat Smith
Circe Sturm
Margo Tamez
Richard Velky
Robert Warrior
Patrick Wolfe
Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation: Teachers' Resource Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tasha Henry
Description
For use with the book by Monique Gray Smith. Includes summary, essential questions, key concepts, vocabulary and learning activities for each chapter of book. Recommended for ages 9-13.
Star House Pole from Old Massett, Haida Gwaii, Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pitt River Museum
Starting from Now, Learning to See: Introducing Pre-service Teachers to the Process of Indigenous Education through a Phenomenological Art Inquiry
Theses
Author/Creator
Shannon Carolyn Leddy
Description
Education Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Simon Fraser University, 2018.
The Steamer Marquis Poling Off a Shallow in the Saskatchewan - Sketch. - 1885.
Documents & Presentations
Description
Sketch of the steamer Marquis, from a sketch by Mr. F.W. Curzon, The Illustrated War News special artist with General Middleton's expedition.
The Steamer "Northcote" Running the Gauntlet at Batoche, May 8, 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Sketch of the steamer "Northcote" being fired upon during the Northwest Resistance.
Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature
E-Books
Author/Creator
Isabelle St-Amand
Surrender of White Cap's Warriors
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
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.
"Swing Up the Dead" for Burial at Fish Creek, 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Image of soldier preparing [a body] for burial after the battle of Fish Creek.
Sydney as an Indigenous Place: "Goanna Walking" Brings People Together
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jo Rey
Neil Harrison
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 81-89
Description
Discusses two projects: Country Tracking Voices, which looks at seven women's ways of relating to place, people, and perspectives through sharing stories; and Honouring Country and Community which involved Indigenous and non-Indigenous pre-service teachers painting three murals on the Macquirie University campus.
Taitsumanialuk, les collections de l’Arctique canadien et du Groenland dans les musées français au XIXe siècle
Alternate Title
Taistumanialuk, the Arctic Collections from Canada and Greenland in Nineteenth century French Museums
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwénaële Guigon
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, Arctic Collections and Museology: Presentations, Disseminations, and Interpretations, 2018, pp. 87-115
Description
Article offers a historical perspective on the cataloguing and description of various undocumented Arctic artifacts in French Museums.
Telling Our Stories: A One Act Play
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 12th, 2017
Representations and Realities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Kathleen Hardgrove
Description
Produced by the Department of Art, Communication, and Theatre, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
There Is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children’s Art from Indian Residential and Indian Day Schools: Inkameep Indian Day School
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Legacy Art Gallery, University of Victoria
“This Story Needs a Witness”: The Imbrication of Witnessing, Storytelling, and Resilience in Lee Maracle’s Celia’s Song
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura J. Beard
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 151-178
Description
Examines themes of testimony, trauma, storytelling, and witnessing in Maracle’s novel; discusses the role that narrating and observing can play as a means of collaborating in the decolonization of settler systems and violence.
The Three Men Who Captured Riel in 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Folder containing photographs of Robert Armstrong and William Diehl, with a sketch of Tom Houri [Hourie]. all items glued to folder.
The Time of Things: The Continuum of Indigenous Customary Practice into Contemporary Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
France Trépanier
Description
Catalogue for exhibition of the same name which featured works by Daphne Boyer, Maureen Gruben, Susan Pavel, Skeena Reece, and Marika Echachis Swan.
Tinseltown Tyee: Nipo Strongheart and the Making of Braveheart
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew H. Fisher
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 93-118
Description
Discusses Strongheart’s role in the DeMille production of the 1925 film Braveheart; argues that Strongheart exercises his agency as a technical adviser and actor to affect the way that Indigenous people are portrayed in film.
Tlingit Shaman's Charms
Theses
Author/Creator
James Lovejoy
Description
Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1984.
The Totem Poles and Monuments of Gitwangak Village
Alternate Title
Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and History
E-Books
Author/Creator
George F. MacDonald
Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and History
Toward a Native Archive: Chicago's Relocation Photos, Indian Labor, and Indigenous Public Text
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Megan Tusler
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 375-410
Description
Article provides a literary historical reading of photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) photo archive of the “relocation project.” Discusses the relocation as both an institutional and an aesthetic venture.
Traces / Re-Traced: Reconstructing Identity: An Interdisciplinary Exhibition
Theses
Author/Creator
Bernard Leroux
Description
Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design Thesis (MFA)--Ontario College of Art and Design, University of Toronto, 2018.
Troops enroute to N.W. Rebellion, 1885
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Canadian Pacific Railway (photographer)
Description
Image of troops at rest in a train car enroute to action in the Northwest Resistance.
Turning Pages: Eden Robinson on Trickster Drift
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Eden Robinson
Michael Elves
Description
Episode 66: Eden Robinson discusses Trickster Drift, the second novel in her Trickster Trilogy, and her process for writing it.
Duration: 26:38.
Unsettling Canadian Heritage: Decolonial Aesthetics in Canadian Video and Performance Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah E.K. Smith
Carla Taunton
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 306-341
Description
Article examines the work of contemporary artists Leah Decter, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, and Caroline Monnet. Discusses the artists’ engagement with current discourse surrounding settler colonialism and their use of the arts to disrupt conceptualization of the Canadian state as inclusive and benevolent.
Unsettling the Archive: Intervention and Parody in Contemporary Indigenous Photography
Theses
Author/Creator
Reilley Bishop-Stall
Description
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2018.
Focuses on the work of Wendy Red Star, Ken Gonzales Day, Meryl McMaster, Chris Bose, Kent Monkman and Da-ka-xeen Mehner.
The Uprising in the Northwest - Sketch. - 25 April 1885.
Documents & Presentations
Description
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.
Urban Indians, Native Networks, and the Creation of Modern Regional Identity in the American Southwest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cathleen D. Cahill
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 71-92
Description
Article explores how Indigenous opera singers in the Southwestern United States in the 1920's used their platform as performers to publicize Indigenous histories; highlights the mobility of Indigenous peoples and how they helped to create modern urban spaces in the Southwest.
The Value of Perseverance: Using Dakota Culture to Teach Mathematics
Articles » General
Author/Creator
AnnMaria De Mars
Erich Longie
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 113-131
Description
Article discusses the integration of Dakota values into the video game Spirit Lake: The Game for the purpose of teaching mathematics, and examines the efficacy of the game for improving learning outcomes for on-reserve youth.