Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 49-75
Description
Looks at the connection between images and stories in the documentary and exposes the politics associated with American Indian filmmaking.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 49.
Analyzes the kinds of art that are deemed acceptable as Aboriginal and discusses the ways the Barkindji people in Wilcannia deal with issues pertaining to the politics of culture, cultural subjectivity and identity.
The Beaver, vol. 90, no. 1, February/March 2010, p. 16
Description
Looks at the disappointment felt by the artist, Mildred Valley Thornton, when the Government of Canada refused to buy her collection of paintings in its entirety.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 9, September 2011, p. 24
Description
Looks at the importance of the powwow and how its revitalization is helping the youth learn about past traditions.
Article found by scrolling to page 24.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 147, The Activist Classroom: Performance and Pedagogy, Summer, 2011, pp. 49-54
Description
Discusses using Marie Clements' play to teach a course on political theatre and social justice to stop conventional, linear forms of historical memory.
Includes: overview of important concepts including rights to cultural heritage and Australian and international legal and policy protections; ten guiding principles and their accompanying protocols; numerous case studies; and project checklist and templates.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 243-252
Description
Examines some of the issues related to "coming home" to ourselves, our land, and our people from a multiracial, visual-textual, Two-Spirit perspective.
Western American Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 46-64
Description
Discusses play which compares quilting perspectives of quiltmaker Mona Gray, who sees quilts as a link to family and LuAnne Jorgensen, a customer who sees them as a commodity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, pp. 119-145
Description
Discusses the metaphorical surrealism in Jim Denomie paintings showing historical and contemporary events in American and Native American history, as well as aspects of pop-culture, art history and Anglo-Indian relations.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 77-110
Description
Discusses the intricacies and nuances of Lakota performances of popular culture. Challenges perspectives which dismiss Indigenous engagement in contemporary culture as mimicry or assimilation, and that portray contemporaneity as opposed to indigeneity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, pp. 147-166
Description
Looks at Belmore's creative work that uses both the living histories of indigenous people as cultural memory, and telling as a political act that is part of the total experience.
Discusses six films: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Rabbit Proof Fence, Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider, Ten Canoes and The Feathers of Peace.
Chapter in book: New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past edited by Alistair Fox, Hilary Radner and Barry Keith.
[2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences]
[Big Thinking Series]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Beverly Diamond
Description
Video of speech by Trudeau Fellow and Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music. Discusses how cultural expressions such as Indigenous performance can define cross-cultural engagement and redefine cultural stereotypes.
Duration: 01:09:11.
Examines reactions to the 2009 film by Warwick Thornton which is about bravery, hopelessness, optimism, and the struggles of two Indigenous youth, and the dialogues it has created.
Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Steven Edmund Winduo
Description
Discusses how scholars use tradition to view culture, society and events.
Chapter four from Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema a symposium held in Honolulu, September, 2010.
Question and answer period with the artist who combines Haida artist conventions with Japanese animation and Chinese brush-painting techniques to tell traditional stories.
Duration: 46:15.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 76-103
Description
Author examines three case studies of vandalism from different countries; argues that the use of red paint by Indigenous peoples to mark colonial structure is an attempt on the part of Indigenous people to create a transnational act of decolonization.