Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 94-[?]
Description
Discusses various documentary and narrative fiction films and shows how embedded historical and cultural information is meant to educate the viewer and undermine the notion of fixed genre.
Former reporter and host of Sharing Circle discusses her previous experiences and her latest production, We Were Children, which deals with residential schools.
Episode of Trailbreakers which aired August 21, 2012.
Duration: 27:30.
Film about conflict between the Ts’il Kaz Koh First Nation (Burns Lake Band) and the Village of Burns Lake. In 2000 the municipality cut off water and sewage services to the reserve, which led in turn to the Band taking the Village to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Social Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC)
Description
After viewing film about issues between First Nations and non-First Nations residents, participants came up with fourteen potential projects to foster cross-cultural understanding.
Grave marker of Rev. John Richard Matheson (1848-1916), Missionary in charge of the St. Barnabas Anglican Mission at Onion Lake. He was also the husband of Elizabeth Beckett Matheson, a doctor who served the Onion Lake district. Also listed on the marker are Edith and Baby Jack, children of the Mathesons.
Series of images taken at Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan, during the Commemoration ceremonies of the signing of Treaty #6 in 1876. 1. Exterior of reconstruction of Fort Pitt; 2. Group of tipis; 3. Top of several tipis, with Union Jack and First Nations flags visible; 4. Large Treaty 6 medal in foreground, with a group of people in background; two non-Natives are wearing NWMP uniforms, and one Aboriginal man is wearing a headdress; 5.
A group of Aboriginal males of all ages, in ceremonial dress, march during the Grand Entry of the Onion Lake Pow Wow. Some are holding flags, while some hold feather staffs. [Taken indoors].
Two portraits of a male and female Aboriginal child taken during the Onion Lake Pow Wow. The male child is clad in ceremonial dress; the female child is wearing western clothing. [Taken indoors].
Series of images of road signs and buildings on the Onion Lake First Nation. The signs are a map of the First Nation and a tribute to Seekaskootch, "Guardian of the People." Also shown is the Onion Lake Homemakers building with an Aboriginal woman standing on the front steps, and an exterior view of Walter's Pool Hall.
Series of four slides showing events during the Grand Entry at the Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation International Pow Wow. Scenes include flag bearers marching, dancers and two war veterans marching.
Two slides showing exterior views of the NWMP Officers' Quarters and a corner post of the stockade at Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan. Also includes a large metal reproduction of the Treaty Six medal, and a group of Aboriginal men, some on horseback bearing flags and some walking while drumming.
Three slides showing events during the Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation International Pow Wow. Scenes include the Beardy's and Okemasis Veterans Association booth, view of interior of tent, and a seated male elder posing for the camera.
Group of slides commemorating the signing of Treaty 6. Scenes include: a group of Aboriginals marching, some in war veterans uniforms and some in ceremonial dress; two views of Beardy's and Okemasis road signs from 1979 and 2001; view of Union Jack and Canadian flags flying; and a sign for a mural located in Duck Lake that depicts the signing of Treaty 6.
Group of slides showing the murals of Duck Lake; 1. Crossing the Saskatchewan; 2. The Carlton Trail; 3. The Signing of Treaty #6; 4. The Signing of Treaty #6 mural and lamp post; 5. Major Players in the 1885 Uprising; 6. Almighty Voice; 7. Duck Lake road sign.
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2001.
This work is largely focussed on the Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life exhibit of 1999-2000.
Website contains consultation, guidance, support and funding for First Nations’ people of British Columbia’s communities for language, arts and culture projects.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2001, pp. 36-38
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at University Art Gallery, Ontario, 2001.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 36.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter, 2001, pp. 22-26
Description
Notes that artists from almost every community in the North are represented in the art bank with Cape Dorset and Baker Lake being most prominent.
Each issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.
Brief television feature focuses on the artist's controversial series of paintings of the sixty-nine murdered and missing women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Duration: 6:36.
Video of speech given by professor from the University of Victoria's Indigenous Governance Program. He argues that Aboriginals must regain their authentic cultural identity in order to truly decolonize themselves.
Duration: 01:02:12.
Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol. 19, 2001, pp. 144-157
Description
Discusses the ideas of appropriation of voice and musical authenticity as they relate to two works, Stolen Life: the Journey of a Cree Woman (by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe) and the Mennonite hymn book, Hymnal: A Worship Book.