Becoming First Americans: Explaining a Polybian-Indian Movement in the American Southeast
Theses
Author/Creator
Reyda L. Taylor
Description
[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2010.
Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves
Alternate Title
Seattle Art Museum Educator Resource Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Regan Doody
Description
Teachers' guide developed in conjunction with exhibition mounted to dispel the misrepresentations of cultural beliefs created by Stephanie Myer's Twilight books.
'Behold the Tears': Photography as Colonial Witness
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane Lydon
History of Photography, vol. 34, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 234-250
Description
Photographs of Aboriginal people in prison shows the colonial violence against the Indigenous people at the turn of the century in north western Australia.
Bending the Rules: The Montreal Branch of the Woman's Art Association of Canada, 1894-1900
Theses
Author/Creator
Heather Victoria Haskins
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 1995.
Between Indigenous Australia and Europe: John Mawurndjul: Art Histories in Context
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ian McLean
Aboriginal History, vol. 34, 2010, pp. 255-257
Description
Book review of: Between Indigenous Australia and Europe edited by Claus Volkenandt and Christian Kauffman.
Review located by scrolling to page 255.
Beyond the Divide: The Use of Native Languages in Anglo-and Franco-Indigenous Theatre
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather Macfarlane
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 35, no. 2, Special Section: Indigeneity in Dialogue: Indigenous Literary Expression Across Linguistic Divides, 2010, pp. [94]-109
Description
Discusses the importance of the inclusion of Aboriginal words in the plays of Yves Sioui Durand, Tomson Highway, and Floyd Favel.
The Bingocentric Worlds of Michel Tremblay and Tomson Highway: Les Belles-Soeurs vs. The Rez Sisters
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Renate Usmiani
Canadian Literature, no. 144, Native, Individual, State, Spring, 1995, pp. 126 - 140
Description
Looks at the parallels between two plays in terms of the subject matter and the dramatic techniques used. For example, bingo, is used as a symbol and illustration of women's consumerism and of the spiritual emptiness in their lives.
'Black is Beautiful', and Indigenous: Aboriginality and Authorship in Australian Popular Music
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew King
Continuum, vol. 24, no. 4, August 2010, pp. 533-542
Description
Comments on a movement that has influenced mainstream attitudes towards the body, fashion, and personal aesthetics.
The Black List: Film and TV Projects since 1970 with Indigenous Australians in Key Creative Roles
E-Books
Author/Creator
Screen Australia
The Black Wound: An Addition to the Interpretation of Plains Indian Figurative Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter L. Bowles
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 5, Issue 273, November-December 2010, pp. 10-12
Description
Examines Lakota, Tsistsistas, and Apsaalooke images that use black graphite lines to depict blood from wounds.
The Blackfeet Buckskin Shirt
Alternate Title
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anna Bullshoe
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Can be adapted for all age groups.
Blackfoot Warrior Shirts
Alternate Title
Lesson Plan: Blackfoot Winter Counts and their Stories
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for Grade 2 language arts, but can be adapted to other levels.
Blackfoot Warrior Shirts
Alternate Title
Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Lesson Plan: Creative Writing and Drama
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for high school students.
The Book of Jessica: The Healing Circle of a Woman's Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susanna Egan
Canadian Literature, no. 144, Native, Individual, State, Spring, 1995, pp. 10 - 26
Description
Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age.
Book Review:The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Deana Dartt-Newton
Exhibitionist, vol. 29, no. 1, Exhibition Frictions, Spring, 2010, pp. 96-98
Description
Reviews a collection of essays edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 1995, pp. 163-186
Description
Book review of 11 books. All reviews are grouped together, you must scroll down to view the individual titles.
I Stand in the Center of the Good: Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists edited by Lawrence Abbott.
Not Vanishing by Chrystos.
Hey Monias! The Story of Raphael Ironstand by Stewart Dickson.
In Search of the Drum by Ailo Gaup.
A Most Pernicious Thing: Gun Trading and Native Warfare in the Early Contact Period by Brian J.
Bound for the Fair: Chief Joseph, Quanah Parker, and Geronimo and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James R. Swensen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 439-470
Description
Author examines several images contemporary to the 1904 World’s Fair, discusses the way in which Indigenous people were portrayed as "spectacle, commodity and spoil of American conquest;" articulates ways that some Indigenous Leaders both corroborated these portrayals and subverted them.
Breaking Copper: Legislating the Repatriation of First Nations Cultural Property to Restore Self-Determination and Promote Reconciliation
Theses
Author/Creator
Pamela Flagel
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2010.
Breechclouts: Full and Modified
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark G. Thiel
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 1, Issue 269, [January-February] 2010, pp. 21-25
Description
Evolution of clothing worn by Native men and boys for comfort and convenience in tribal sports, dances and ceremonies.
Brian Jungen, Selected Works & Interview
Alternate Title
fARTiculate
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Morgan
Brian Jungen
Description
Interview with noted sculptor who uses mass-produced consumer goods in his works.
Bridging Cultural Divides
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Elsa Reid
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 18-19
Description
Discusses the design and artwork on an Aboriginal Health Banner that welcomes Indigenous communities to Hawkesbury District Health Service.
Bridging Past and Present: A Study of Precontact Yup'ik Masks from the Nunalleq Site, Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna Mossolova
Rick Knecht
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 18-38
Description
Article uses archaeological, ethnographic, and oral history accounts to examine several masks and fragments recently recovered from the Nunalleq archeological site. Findings demonstrate strong pre-contact traditions of ceremonial mask making that continued post contact.
Buffy
Alternate Title
Buffy: 360
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Walker
Description
Film of songwriter, singer, Buffy Sainte-Marie, discusses her inspirations and hopes.
Duration: 06:16.
Bull Plume's Second Sundance Lodge
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
Dave Melting Tallow
Joanne Greenwood
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he describes the ceremonies involved in the construction of a Holy Lodge.
Can Capitalism Be Decolonized? Recentering Indigenous Peoples, Values, and Ways of Life in the Canadian Art Market
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Solen Roth
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 306-338
Description
Author examines the interdependent nature of colonial and capitalist structures and their collaborative resistance to decolonizing efforts. Explores two different sites in which Indigenous businesses are working to engage in the market while maintaining business practices rooted Indigenous values and principles. Asks how these economic practices can support the dismantling of colonial-capitalist economic institutions.
Canada's Cultural Property Export and Import Act: The Experience of Protecting Cultural Property
Alternate Title
Part IV: International Repatriation and Protection of Cultural Property
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David A. Walden
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [203]-216
Description
Discusses five features of the Act: the establishment of a Export Control List, provision for loans and grants to institutions to purchase items that cannot be exported, establishment of a review board dealing with applications for export permits and certification of property for income tax purposes, establish income tax incentives for donation or sales of objects to designated institutions, and procedures for recovery of property which has been illegally exported.
Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
E-Books
Author/Creator
Douglas Cole
p. xxi, 373
Description
Reprint with new introduction. Originally published: Douglas & McIntyre, 1985.
Cathedral Grove
Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Karen Wonders
Description
Website contains information on the destruction of Aboriginal heritage trees by industrial logging and it impact on First Nations identity and culture. Includes links to resources on totem poles and European trees,and related stories, digital media, and galleries.
Celebrating Indigenous Languages
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Google Earth
Description
This interactive Google Earth project is a guided tour that introduces the user to over 80 Indigenous languages from around the globe. At each point on the map the user can view a photo and bio of an Indigenous language speaker from that region and listen to clips of them speaking their language.
A Celebration of the Arts in Saskatoon - 1995.
Documents & Presentations
Description
Program relating to art work used in the newly-renamed The Centre at Circle and Eighth in Saskatoon, formerly the Circle Park and Wildwood malls. Aboriginal artists and themes are featured; project coordinator is Cecilia Cote.
Chamakese & Gladue "Irresistable"
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jason Chamakese
Robert Gladue
Description
Presents a video of Jason Chamakese and Robert Gladue performing, using flute, hand drum and singing, at the 7th annual Aboriginal Music Festival in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
A Chapter Closed?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
America Meredith
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities, 2019, pp. 37-40
Description
The author examines the creation of the Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World exhibit at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, his supporters questioning of tribal denial of his claim to Cherokee ancestry and its importance regarding Indigenous identity and sovereignty.
Cheyenne Moccasins with Thunderbird Designs: Part 5
Alternate Title
MoccasinCorner: Cheyenne Moccasins with Thunderbird Designs: Part 5
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Kostelnik
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 1, Issue 269, January-February 2010, pp. 17-19
Description
Looks at the Cheyenne use of the Thunderbird symbol in the beadwork of men's moccasins. Photograph of moccasin from the Bata Shoe Museum.
Cheyenne Moccasins with Thunderbird Designs: Part 6
Alternate Title
MoccasinCorner: Cheyenne Moccasins with Thunderbird Designs - Part 6
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Kostelnik
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 2, Issue 270, May/June 2010, pp. 18-21
Description
Looks at the Cheyenne use of the Thunderbird symbol in the beadwork of men's moccasins. Photographs of moccasins from the Bata Shoe Museum.
Cheyenne Moccasins with Thunderbird Designs: Part 7
Alternate Title
MoccasinCorner: Cheyenne Moccasins with Thunderbird Designs: Part 7
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Kostelnik
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 3, Issue 271, 2010, pp. 20-23
Description
Looks at the Cheyenne use of the Thunderbird symbol in the beadwork of men's moccasins. Photographs of moccasins from the Bata Shoe Museum.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kirsten Pai Buick
[Child with Drum]
Images » Photographs
Description
Slides appear to be a series of 8 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Indian Brotherhood (NWT)"
[Children]
Images » Photographs
Description
Slides appear to be a series of 8 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Indian Brotherhood (NWT)"
[Christopher Morris]
Alternate Title
Hinterviews, no. 4, 2009-10
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Peter Hinton
Christopher Morris
Description
Writer/director of the play Night discusses his work.
Duration: 28:55.
A "Cinema of Sovereignty": Working in the Cultural Interface to Create a Model for Fourth World Film Pre-Production and Aesthetics
Theses
Author/Creator
Dorothy Christian
Description
Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2010.
Circling the Truth
Alternate Title
Borderviews
[RESERVE(d) Review]
Articles » General
Border Crossings, vol. 29, no. 2, 2010, p. 20
Description
Reviews the exhibition RESERVE(d) by Caroline Monnet and Kevin Lee Burton mounted at the Urban Shaman Gallery.
Circulating Regalia and Lakhˇóta Survivance, c. 1900
Alternate Title
Circulating Regalia and Lakota Survivance, c. 1900
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Emily C. Burns
Arts, vol. 8, no. 4, October 31, 2019, p. article 146
Description
Looks at the history of two examples of regalia that traveled to France; one with a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1889 and the other worn by a performer at the Jardin d'Acclimation (a human zoo) in Paris in 1911.
Closing the Gap: Ethics and the Law in the Exhibition of Contemporary Native Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tahnee M. Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 115-122
Description
Discusses how decreased funding for museums and art galleries has lead to an increased effort to secure Indigenous art in order to acquire grants. Uses Jimmie Durham as a case study and an examination of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 to illustrate how the art community's haste to secure Indigenous art has allowed those with a fraudulent identity to benefit.
Clothing Power: Hierarchies of Gender Difference and Ambiguity in Moche Ceramic Representations of Human Dress, C.E. 1-850
Theses
Author/Creator
Sarahh E. M. Scher
Description
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2010.
Coast Salish Textiles: From ‘Stilled Fingers’ to Spinning an Identity
Alternate Title
Textile Society of America 12th Biennial Symposium, 2010
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings; paper 59
Textiles and Settlement: From the Plains Space to Cyber Space
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eileen Wheeler
Description
Discusses the weaving revival which has taken place among Musqueam and Stó:lo women.
Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario, 1791-1914
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 63
E-Books
Author/Creator
Michelle A. Hamilton
Collective Memory in Transition: Macdonald, Cornwallis and Statue Removal in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Ben McHutchion
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A) -- Queen's University, 2019.
Coming Out From Behind the Rocks: Constructs of the Indian in Recent U.S and Canadian Cinema
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Appleford
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1995, pp. 97-118
Description
Looks at films as social barometers of attitudes and ideologies; films discussed: Dances With Wolves, Black Robe, Thunderheart, Clearcut, Loyalties, Company of Strangers, Where the Spirit Lives, Spirit Rider, and Powwow Highway.
Commercialization and Marketing of Women’s Indigenous Knowledge Products: A Case Study of Maasai Body Ornamental Products in Arusha, Tanzania
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jehovaness Aikaeli
Beatrice Kalinda Mkenda
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 5, June 2019, pp. 41-75
Description
Discusses the traditional knowledge and skills used by Maasai women in their creation of accessories and other handcrafted goods; explores how these skills might be translated into income in both domestic and tourist markets.