Seachange, The Face-to-Face, Spring, 2010, pp. 51-80
Description
Looks at the history of Native Net, a nation-wide computer based multimedia communication network, and the development of CyberPowWow, an online gallery and chat room produced by the Aboriginal collective Nation to Nation.
Describes clothing worn by Native people reflecting the transition to Euro-American dress from photographs in the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum .
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, 2007, pp. 5-48
Description
Examines how museums respectfully display Native American clothing cross-culturally or transnationally in an appropriate context and provide educational information about regalia.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 48-81
Description
Discusses the Aboriginal documentaries produced as part of National Film Board's initiative designed to give marginalized social groups a greater voice. Films include: Powwow at Duck Lake, Elliot Lake, The Indian Speaks, Ballad of Crowfoot, Cree Hunters of Mistassini, and You are on Indian Land.
Members of the Indigenous artistic community discuss issues such as cultural appropriation, respectful engagement, and the importance of relationships and reciprocity.
Duration: 10:07.
Transcript.
Cultural Preservation for Indigenous Communities through Libraries & Archives
Governance of Cultural Policy Conference
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Deborah Lee
Tasha Hubbard
Carol Greyeyes
Dorothy Myo
Description
Indigenous Studies librarian discusses cultural preservation initiatives; director of Two Worlds Colliding discusses importance of the arts; coordinator of U of S Aboriginal Theatre Program discusses role of collaboration in furthering culture; and president of the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre discusses culture as a way of life.
Duration: 51:11.
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 117-150
Description
Discusses how the work of these visual artists participates in Indigenous storytelling about the future by engaging with contemporary artistic practices and mainstream popular culture; author examines the way that the artists challenge Western colonial narratives and stereotypes.
Indigenous Illustration: Native American Artists and 19th Century US Print Culture
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Phillip H. Round
American Literary History, vol. 19, no. 2, 2007, pp. 267-289
Description
Reviews several illustrated publications created by Indigenous North Americans in the 1800s and uncovers the unacknowledged talent not given credit where credit was due.
Sociologia & Antropologia, vol. 6, no. 3, December 2016, pp. 581-599
Description
Looks at the beginning of video experiments in the 1980s up unto the start of Indigenous filmmaking in Australia and Indigenous television stations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan.
Uses Jeff Barnaby’s film, File Under Miscellaneous, and SyFy’s series, Helix, to discuss the subtleties inherent in Gerald Vizenor’s concept of “survivance” and Archille Mbembe’s competing logics of “martyrdom and survial.” Considers these as elements of resistance to colonial biopolitics.
College of Arts and Science (University of Saskatchewan)
Description
Overview of the new course offered using performance training methods to teach Indigenous language skills at the University of Saskatchewan. Uses TPR, total physical response to teach Cree.
Duration: 13:05.
Discusses problems, examples and the options available to communities dealing with issues of ownership, control and access to the cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, 2007, pp. 1-3
Description
Examines challenges faced by curators, educators, artists, and others when interpretating Native American cultural objects, to ensure representation is done with dignity and an appreciation of historical changes.
[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.