Video clip from the performance storytellling presentation An Evening with Richard Wagamese. In the video Richard, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller, expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip, Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
Video clip from An Evening with Richard Wagamese an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller. In the clip Richard expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
George Lutz recounts stories while living at Mandan, North Dakota and helping his father Rolland produce thousands of postcards of Native Americans. Includes photographs.
American Art Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, 1988, pp. 2-33
Description
Discusses chalk and water colour images of Indian visitors to Washington, D.C., which are among the earliest and most accurate interpretation of Plains Indians by a non-Indian artist.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 12, December 2010, p. 1,14
Description
Comments on the investiture of a Métis sash during at ceremony at the Saskatchewan Legislature to celebrate 2010 as Year of the Métis.
Article found on page 1 and continued by scrolling to page 14.
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 16, no. 4, Special issue: Materializing identities, December 2011, pp. 416-428
Description
Examines the conflicting ways in which artifacts and cultural heritage of First Nations are understood and how contradictory positions are to be reconciled.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 4, April 2011, p. 5
Description
Comments on the accomplishments of Indigenous artists, writers, musicians and dancers and the honourable way in which they have led Aboriginal people.
Article found by scrolling to page 5.
Designed to increase students' knowledge of the teachings and by creating puppets, writing scripts, and performing plays teach younger students about them.
Global Encounters Initiative, University of British Columbia
Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame March 4-6, 2010 University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Media » Film and Video
Description
Chief Councilor of the Hupacasath Nation shares her story, place of being and knowledge about ceremonies, designs on Ceremonial Curtains and her own Ceremonial Curtain.
Duration: 1:03:13.
Lecture discusses the inclusion of modern art in the National Museum of the American Indian, the show Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort, and the artist's use of consumer products in his work.
Teacher's guide to accompany the short film dealing with traditional healing and spirituality. The film is written, produced and based on a comic book by Steven Keewatin Sanderson. Includes comprehension questions, writing activities, and research activities.
Teacher's guide to accompany the short film dealing with traditional healing and spirituality. The film is written, produced and based on a comic book by Steven Keewatin Sanderson. Includes comprehension questions, writing activities, and research activities.
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Description
Website developed to accompany exhibition of the same name. Topics include impact of the horse, native arts and the horse, decline and revival, and the horse nation lives on.
Images of items in the exhibition.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 75-103
Description
Describes the concept of rhetorical sovereignty, and looks at the workings and complications of enacting rhetorical sovereignty using the three inaugural exhibits of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 148, Fall, 2011, pp. 25-31
Description
Describes initiative undertaken by Twin Fish and urban ink theatre groups in Williams Lake, British Columbia. Project involved youth in the development of a short play entitled Damed if You Do, What it Don't as part media and performance training.