Discusses how the artist uses parody in his works by painting in the style of Kane and Catlin but introducing subject matter that challenges the stereotypes they depict.
Discusses problems, examples and the options available to communities dealing with issues of ownership, control and access to the cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples.
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Travelling Exhibition Program
Art Gallery of Alberta
Description
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Blackfoot artists Kristy North Peigan, Smith Wright, and Lori Scalplock.Topics include survey of First Nations art in the twentieth century, introduction to Blackfoot history and culture, and artist interviews and biographies.
Interview with artistic director of Saskatchewan Native Theater Company. Program teaches students culture, life skills, career management and preforming arts.
Duration: 13:17.
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Deborah Magee Sherer
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Suitable for ages 12 and up.
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 3-[?]
Description
Introduction to special issue celebrating Indigenous film in North America with examples of key films and filmmakers, approaches to studying and writing and interviews with filmmakers in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 11-16
Description
Discusses the artistic production which was initiated as a form of occupational therapy and later became a source of income.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 11.
La Restitution du Patrimoine Matériel et Immatériel: Regards Croisés Canada / Mélanésie
Les Cahiers du CIÉRA, no. 2, Octobre 2008
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Irniq
Description
Brief article describes the process involved in the return of skeletal remains from Denmark to Nunavut.
Entire volume on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
Critiques art exhibition mounted to celebrate the creation of new territory of Nunavut in terms of whether it accurately represented the Inuit, or was just a reflection of southern views about their art.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 339-364
Description
Article analyzes the narrative presented on the Homeland Security t-shirt [Graphic tee which has the words “Homeland Security” emblazoned above an image of Geronimo with three fellow Apache warriors and the words “Fighting Terrorism since 1492” located below the photograph]. Discusses how this narrative forms a rhetoric of critique and resistance.
Explores opera which looks at the contradictory forces of social alienation and cultural assimilation that aboriginals faced during the early twentieth century.
La Restitution du Patrimoine Matériel et Immatériel: Regards Croisés Canada / Mélanésie
Les Cahiers du CIÉRA, no. 2, Octobre 2008
E-Books
Author/Creator
Catherine E. Bell
Description
Uses the example of the "Echo Mask" belonging to the Nuxalk of British Columbia to illustrate the problems associated with repatriation.
Entire volume on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 392-394
Description
Book review of: The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian edited by Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher.
Guide suggested for Grade 9 students. Film, directed by Lori Lewis, deals with segregation of Aboriginal athletes and the abuse suffered in the residential school system
Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners.
Study Guide.
Presentation comes from 30 years of experience to preserve Indian culture. Architect discusses his roots, his design projects and use of graphics to come up with design guides.
Duration: 57:26.
Literacy More Than Words: Presentations: Literacy for Aboriginal Populations
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Council of Ministers of Education
Canada
Description
Contains links to webcasts and presentations on Aboriginal literacy from the Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum 2008: Legacy, which was put on by the Council of Ministers of Education and took place in nine different locations across Canada.
Living in a (Schrodinger’s) Box: Jimmie Durham’s Strategic Use of Ambiguity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzanne Newman Fricke
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 55-64
Description
A discussion of how the artist and his supporters continue to identify him as Cherokee, despite his own admission of not being a member of the Cherokee Nation.
Website makes accessible 570 objects, 2600 written documents, 500 black and white photographs and 8 sound recordings from the Shotridge collection featuring southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture.