Seachange, The Face-to-Face, Spring, 2010, pp. 51-80
Description
Looks at the history of Native Net, a nation-wide computer based multimedia communication network, and the development of CyberPowWow, an online gallery and chat room produced by the Aboriginal collective Nation to Nation.
File contains 14 negatives of Aboriginal art displayed at the Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, on January 17, 1981. Negatives show a range of artwork; mainly paintings with some other mediums.
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Issue features the established policy for accessions to the collections.
Discusses problems, examples and the options available to communities dealing with issues of ownership, control and access to the cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples.
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Deborah Magee Sherer
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.
Suitable for ages 12 and up.
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 3-[?]
Description
Introduction to special issue celebrating Indigenous film in North America with examples of key films and filmmakers, approaches to studying and writing and interviews with filmmakers in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 2010, pp. 4-11
Description
Discusses artists' responses to the impact of residential schools and cultural assimilation.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 4.
Mr. Meneen, aged 83, describes the difficulties of life when he was a child learning to trap in the bush; tells of the Indians' understanding of the treaty.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 28-30
Description
Discusses exhibition of the same name mounted at the Museum of Inuit Art, February 15 to June 30, 2010.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 28.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 31-33
Description
Brief discussion of exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, August 20 to December 5, 2010.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 31.
This booklet written for the Western Development Museum Travelling Exhibition examines the religious attitudes and beliefs of Western Canadians to the land from earliest times to the present. The display seeks to facilitate understanding of man's relationship with the land and God.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 392-394
Description
Book review of: The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian edited by Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher.
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.
79 images (11 scanned here) of the Louis Riel Day festivities in Saskatoon on July 9, 1978. They show people eating, racing canoes, running, firing guns and enjoying live music.
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.