Discusses the film directed by Ali Kazimi and the work of photographer Edward Curtis in terms of pictorial representation of Aboriginals and the ideas behind it.
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
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Steven Edmund Winduo
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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.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 26, Performing Canada=Le Canada mis en scène, Fall, 2002, pp. 77-
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Discusses how the perceived "objectivity" of photographs helped to serve the Canadian government's interest in promoting white settlement.
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American Anthropologist, vol. 104, no. 2, June 2002, pp. 642-646
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Exhibit review essay of: Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience mounted by the Heard Museum, and the accompanying book Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences by Margaret L. Archuleta, Brenda J. Child, K. Tsianina Lomawaima.
Modern Drama, vol. 45, no. 2, Summer, 2002, pp. 259-269
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Argues that the character of Nanabush is not identical to the figure found in traditional stories, and discusses his role in underlying temporal theme of the play.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 286-307
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Article examines the protocols and practices surrounding knowledge acquisition and transmission in a Lummi (Coast Salish) community and considers how different understanding and beliefs around knowledge can create distrust.
“Documents the carving and raising of 'The Respect to Bill Reid' totem pole at the UBC Museum of Anthropology in 2000.” Artists, pole figures, tools, and a Haida village at the Museum are featured.
Photographies, vol. 3, no. 2, Photography, Archive and Memory, 2010, pp. 173-187
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Explains the current role of the archive in terms of showing engagement between white settlers and Indigenous people and also to assist with the recovery of family and stories that have been lost through colonization in Australia.
Theatre Research International, vol. 35, no. 3, 2010, pp. 302-303
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Book reviews of: Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective by Christy Stanlake and Native American Performance and Representation edited by S. E. Wilmer.
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.
Current Anthropology, vol. 43, no. 3, June 2002, pp. 383-420
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Using Shamanism as the interpretative framework has allowed academics "to "other" pre-Columbian peoples by portraying them as steeped in magic and the spiritual."