Virtual exhibition includes topics such as demography, geography. hunting, fishing, trapping, trade, and the Metis; includes several short biographies.
Peace and Conflict, vol. 19, no. 4, Special Issue on Museums, November 2013, pp. 408-420
Description
Uses Michel Foucault's idea of heterotopia to look at the Canadian Museum of Civilization's First Peoples Hall and alternative models to deal with the residential school legacy.
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph. Caption: Treaty Six negotiations were held at a traditional camping area, known to the Cree as the "waiting place", near Fort Carlton.
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph. Caption: One of the fugitive Indians (possibly Four Sky Thunder) who surrendered at Battleford instead of fleeing to the United States.
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
A photograph of the government's surveyors corps of scouts during the 1885 uprising, probably taken at Qu'Appelle prior to Middleton's march north. The men appear to be armed with lever action repeating rifles and pistols.
Image of Captain John French, killed at Batoche. On back of photo: "An old French halfbreed, named Ross, was standing at the corner of a house nearly opposite Batoche's house, and fired the fatal shot, then made a run for cover, but paid the penalty for shooting French just before reading it."
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2013, p. 154
Description
Book review of: Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture edited by Cora J. Voyageur, David R. Newhouse and Dan Beavon.
Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Jennifer Kramer
Ḳi-ḳe-in
Description
Provides overview of anthology which chronicles the history of perceptions about cultural objects as "art".
Preface and introduction to Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas edited by Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ḳi-ḳe-in.
Looks at the "Indian Story" genre by focusing on two movies Strongheart (1914) and The Business of Fancydancing (2002).
Chapter sixteen from Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging edited by Teresa Botelho and Iolanda Ramos.
Responses focused on body image, experience of loss, and addictive substances. Sample was 20 individuals.
Part of the larger project Iskwewak Miwayawak: Women Feeling Healthy which involved University of Saskatchewan researchers.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 36, no. 1, April 2013, pp. 18-32
Description
Critiques the two exhibitions Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait and Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska in terms of their success as cross-cultural collaborations.
Describes how the Heard Museum created interest in Native American and Indigenous peoples art and discusses how some of this art attempted to make comprehensible what was incomprehensible.