File contains 3 negatives from an all candidates meeting (presumably held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan) addressed by Jim Sinclair on July 24, 1980. Three images show Jim Sinclair delivering his address, flanked by other participants. (bad quality photos)
File contains 6 negatives showing students from the Prince Albert Student Residence preparing to return to their homes across northern Saskatchewan for the holiday season. Scanned image shows a portrait of six children in winter clothing. (bad quality photo)
22 images (five scanned here) of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people at a conference in Saskatoon on November 26, 1980. Roy Romanow appears to be hosting the conference.
20 images (seven scanned here) of members of the Saskatoon Native community at the Saskatoon train station joining a group of Aboriginal people on a train trip on November 26, 1980.
Curator of the exhibition entitled Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian discusses the exhibition about the pervasiveness of the image of the American Indian in popular culture and the controversy surrounding the validity of artist Jimmy Durham's Cherokee identity.
Duration: 58:51.
Topics discussed were collecting and collections management, and repatriation and initiatives for reconciliation; includes case studies, witness reflections and link to the webinar Museum Perspectives on the Task Force on Museums & First Peoples and the Recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Authors examine the ways that the radio show Inside Out helps to connect imprisoned Aboriginal Australians with their families, their communities and each other. Article also discusses the access to Indigenous culture the public radio show provides to non-Indigenous people.
Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 79-84
Description
Discusses past, present and future directions and the issue of educating the public about contemporary art as an expression of living and changing culture.
Mr. Gladue, aged 86, describes the discovery of Trout Lake, Alberta; the abundance of buffalo in the area; his life as atrapper. He gives a detailed and graphic account of a winter journey from Wabasca to Yellowknife and back, including his attendance at a Chipewyan funeral and feast.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, Art et Représentation / Art and Representation, 2004, pp. 171-183
Description
Reviews six books about Inuit art:
Celebrating Inuit Art, 1948-1970 by Maria von Finckentein
Inuit Art/An Introduction by Ingo Hessel.
Histoires de l’Art des Inuits du Québec by Michel Nöel and Jean Chaumely.
Le Refus de l’Oubli: Femmes-Sculptures du Nunavik by Céline Saucier.
The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture by Harold Seidelman and James Turner.
Sculpture of the Inuit by George Winton.
Reviews in French.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 19-23
Description
Profile of the Inuit artist whose drawings were atypical of the works produced in northern print shops.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 19.
Discusses the importance of audio recordings and describes work done with First Nations in British Columbia ; the recordings have now been digitized, compiled and mounted online as part of the Ridington/Dane-zaa audio archive. Gives descriptions of a random sample of archive's content.
File contains the historical booklet, "I Wasn't Put on this Earth for Nothin': Stories from La Loche, Saskatchewan. It was a "Celebrate Saskatchewan, 1905-1980" brochure, compiled by Ray Marnoch.
This document is a summary of the original interview in Chipewyan. The summarized sections are too short to be of value to researchers, and it will be necessary for them to refer to the original.