[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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Interview of Charlie Chief who discusses the a Grass Dance, Round Dance and Sioux Dance (including songs). Also included are songs. The discusses the difference between old and new ways. Alphonse Littlepoplar is the intterpreter
Commodifications of the Past? An IPinCH Knowledge Base Bibliography
Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage: Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Herbert
Description
Lists 208 publications (articles, letters, websites, webpages, government documents, and books) deemed to be of interest to the Commodifications of the Past? Working Group from the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) research project.
American Quarterly , vol. 62, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 387-394
Description
Book reviews of: The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb.
Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indianedited by Lowery Stokes Sims, Truman T. Lowe and Paul Chaat Smith.
George De Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings edited by Nancy K. Anderson.
Presents a selection of papers presented April 29-30, 2009, Faculty of the VCA and Music, The University of Melbourne about the business of Indigenous performing arts, its history and its future.
Discussion by Elders who express regrets at loss of traditional customs and values and desire a return of schools on reserves ; a need to preserve Indian ceremonies and Indian medicines ; concerns about problems with alcohol recur throughout.
Elders discuss contemporary problems. Recurring themes are: problems with alcohol; education by whites from an early age; need to return to traditional teaching by elders in combination with white education.
Elders discuss concerns regarding: loss of Indian culture and traditions; failure to educate young Indians in traditionalways; young well-educated chiefs who will not take advice from elders.
Discussion of Indian ceremonies: how these are passed on from generation to generation; the role of women. Tipis: particular kinds of tipis; decorated tipis; tipis inrelation to death customs. No date given but probably January 1974, same as the others in this series.
Artist's own experiences as a hybrid subject influence her work and represents the reality of most Aboriginal people today. Includes annotated photographs from exhibition.