Side view of Inuk man with hand up to face; two ships in background. "Caption by Dommasch: "BeauDril 40 km off shore, Arctic Ocean, 24 hour watch polar bear monitor". [Near Tuktoyaktuk, NWT.]
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 49-75
Description
Looks at the connection between images and stories in the documentary and exposes the politics associated with American Indian filmmaking.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 49.
The Beaver, vol. 90, no. 1, February/March 2010, p. 16
Description
Looks at the disappointment felt by the artist, Mildred Valley Thornton, when the Government of Canada refused to buy her collection of paintings in its entirety.
File contains 19 negatives of Pow Wow dancers at Indian Pow-Wow Parade and Pow Wow Princesses Aug15-90. The negatives are all outdoor pictures of dancerns in traditional garb.
Includes: overview of important concepts including rights to cultural heritage and Australian and international legal and policy protections; ten guiding principles and their accompanying protocols; numerous case studies; and project checklist and templates.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 243-252
Description
Examines some of the issues related to "coming home" to ourselves, our land, and our people from a multiracial, visual-textual, Two-Spirit perspective.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 77-110
Description
Discusses the intricacies and nuances of Lakota performances of popular culture. Challenges perspectives which dismiss Indigenous engagement in contemporary culture as mimicry or assimilation, and that portray contemporaneity as opposed to indigeneity.
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, 2016, pp. 189-207
Description
Comments on the theme of boarding-schools, and the films The Only Good Indian directed by Kevin Wilmott, and The Education of Little Tree directed by Friedenberg and Older Than America directed by Lightning.
Examines reactions to the 2009 film by Warwick Thornton which is about bravery, hopelessness, optimism, and the struggles of two Indigenous youth, and the dialogues it has created.
Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Steven Edmund Winduo
Description
Discusses how scholars use tradition to view culture, society and events.
Chapter four from Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema a symposium held in Honolulu, September, 2010.
Question and answer period with the artist who combines Haida artist conventions with Japanese animation and Chinese brush-painting techniques to tell traditional stories.
Duration: 46:15.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 76-103
Description
Author examines three case studies of vandalism from different countries; argues that the use of red paint by Indigenous peoples to mark colonial structure is an attempt on the part of Indigenous people to create a transnational act of decolonization.
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1-2, November 28, 2016, pp. 52-75
Description
Literary criticism article considers author Blake Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears arguing that the text harnesses the science fiction genre to criticize not only the historical “Trail of Tears,” but also the ongoing romanization of the narrative in the United States.