Presentation comes from 30 years of experience to preserve Indian culture. Architect discusses his roots, his design projects and use of graphics to come up with design guides.
Duration: 57:26.
Former reporter, host of the Sharing Circle, and president of her own production company discusses her experiences in the media industry.
Duration: 9:46.
Video of interview with former reporter, host of Sharing Circle, president of Eagle Vision, and manager of the National Screen Institute's New Voices program.
Duration: 10:52.
Former reporter, host of Sharing Circle, and filmmaker discusses the National Screen Institute's New Voices course which is aimed exclusively at Aboriginal people aged 18-35.
Duration: 7:38
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 169-199
Description
Analyzes the sociopolitical implications of disinterring bodies in order to put them on display, and discusses the responses of various writers to such issues. The article includes a comparison of display cases in museums, that house Native American bones, to that of zoos.
Website makes accessible 570 objects, 2600 written documents, 500 black and white photographs and 8 sound recordings from the Shotridge collection featuring southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 39-40, Culture - Natures in Canada, 2009, pp. 253-279
Description
Discusses the historical process which has led to the destruction of many of the Blood sacred sites and explains how repatriation and protection are necessary, since their relationship with the land is essential to their culture and spirituality.
Collection of photographs depicting individuals from the Blackfeet Nation in Browning, Montana and some scenes from Glacier National Park (U.S.) during the early twentieth century. Images included were digitized from photographic negatives.
Two part video presentation shows process of making "cup and pin" game from bone, leather, and metal wire. Cree and English.
Part 2
Total duration: 18:56.
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 344-364
Description
Examines traditional Indigenous art-making practices, exploring a complex range of issues extending beyond those of gender into the realm of Indigenous cultural history.
Art Gallery of Ontario invited poets to create poems based on works of art. Hynes does a reading of the work she wrote in response to Belmore's installation piece Rising to the Occasion.
Duration: 6:01.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 2, February 2009, p. 2
Description
Looks at a book that originally started as a painting and developed into a work that describes the uses for medicines and herbs including naming them in Cree, Ojibway and two Michif dialects.
Article found by scrolling to page 2.
Discussion about the artist's use of mass produced goods to create sculpture. In conjunction with the Strange Comfort exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian.
Duration: 1:29:04.
Three images of Mistusenni rock, now under water at Diefenbaker Lake. Mistusenni, a 400 ton glacial erratic, 14 feet high, 79 feet in circumference, was sacred to the Cree and Plains Indians. Attempts to remove the rock failed. Fragments were used to construct a monument for historic site marker near Elbow. QC 3692 2 shows Zenon Pohorecki on left, QC 3692 3 shows Zenon Pohorecki on left, Wally Stambuck, third from left and other men.
Consists of an interview where George Clutesi discusses at length his role in the cultural reawakening of his people, particularly the dance group he organized. There is also discussion of the preparation of bark clothing.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Richard Knecht
Theresa Arevgaq John
Description
Looks at a distance-learning program that gives students an opportunity to earn a college degree while living in their home villages.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 31, no. 2, 2010, pp. 193-207
Description
Discusses a play centered around an orphaned First Nations girl, Forever, who runs away from residential school and finds shelter in an abandoned boat.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 9, September 2009, p. 1
Description
Comments on the annual Aboriginal Music Festival, hosted by the Indigenous Peoples Program at the University of Saskatchewan, which combines culture and education through music and information booths.
Article located on page 1.