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.
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.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 145-162
Description
Descriptions of basketry in the novel Ramona and discussion of the literary accounts, basketry collections, and ethnographic experiences of the author, Helen Hunt Jackson, which may have inspired some passages.
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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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.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 22-32
Description
Author recounts the history of Fort Walsh and of the NWMP/RCMP deployment into Western Canada; describes the efforts—both locally initiated, and those set in motion by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to (HSMBC)—to reconstruct the Fort, and the course that rebuilding took.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 22.
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-
Description
Discusses how the perceived "objectivity" of photographs helped to serve the Canadian government's interest in promoting white settlement.
Scroll down to page 77 to access article.
American Anthropologist, vol. 104, no. 2, June 2002, pp. 642-646
Description
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
Description
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.