Covers the past 100 years of contact between First Nations farmers and non-Aboriginal farmers which in many circumstances depended on the level of respect they had for each other.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 174, no. 7, March 28, 2006, pp. 979-982
Description
Discussion of 2006 exhibition entitled Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist held at the National Art Gallery of Canada which featured 59 works spanning 1958-2002.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2003, pp. 40-42
Description
Curator discusses how both Inuit and non-Inuit works were incorporated into the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, 2003.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 40.
Journal of the American Institute For Conservation, vol. 34, no. 3, Autumn-Winter, 1995, pp. 187-193
Description
Explores changing factors influencing traditional conservation methods and the role of conservation as it relates to material culture of Native Americans.
Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diana Henry
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [5]-11
Description
Member of the Saanich Native Heritage Society describes efforts to prevent the sale of an ancient West Coast Saanich bowl to an American dealer, and to have this cultural property returned to their people.
Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 18, no. 2, December 2006, pp. 237-247
Description
Uses the the sacred costume as an example of attitudes toward the acquisition and presentation of material culture; discusses the purchase of the clothing in relation to events taking place in Canada in the 1870s and traces changes in the museum's curatorial practices as demonstrated by its placement in the museum's collection.
Part IV: International Repatriation and Protection of Cultural Property
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David A. Walden
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [203]-216
Description
Discusses five features of the Act: the establishment of a Export Control List, provision for loans and grants to institutions to purchase items that cannot be exported, establishment of a review board dealing with applications for export permits and certification of property for income tax purposes, establish income tax incentives for donation or sales of objects to designated institutions, and procedures for recovery of property which has been illegally exported.
Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
gii-dahl-guud-sliiaay
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [183]-201
Description
Discusses First Nations' conceptions of cultural property and argues, by using Haida Gwaii examples, that objects should be placed in centres managed and controlled by First Nations, not residing in museums.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall, 1995, pp. 78-90
Description
Critically addresses the efforts of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, with the intent of placing it within the larger cultural discourse on museums, in regard to representations of cultures and their objects.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 28-29
Description
Curator of the exhibition explains the process of identifying the previously unknown artists who created works held in the collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Entire issue one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 28.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 26-36
Description
Review of Exhibition and book:
Isumavut: The Artistic Expression of Nine Cape Dorset Women at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, October 6, 1994 to March 3, 1996.
Inuit Women Artists: Voice From Cape Dorset edited by Odette Leroux, Marion E. Jackson, and Minnie Aodla Freeman.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 20-43
Description
Discusses role the noted carver and restorer of totem poles played in the in the acquisition of objects for its collection at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.
Site contains links to Indigenous historical and contemporary material drawn from the Canadian Museum of Civilization's artifact and archival collections including thousands of photographs.
Vision, Space, Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Nancy Marie Mithlo
Description
Comments on three exhibits at the Venice Biennale sponsored by the Native American Arts Alliance.
Chapter from Vision, Space, Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Decolonizing Archaeology, Summer - Autumn, 2006, pp. 507-510
Description
Author, and guest editor of the section on Critical Engagements with the NMAI (National Museum of the American Indian) discusses the varied response to the museum since its opening two years prior, and introduces the article contained in this section.
Border Crossings, vol. 25, no. 4, November 2006, pp. 66-74
Description
Reviews of:
Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art,
Past to Present: Important Works for the First Peoples of the Northwest Coast, and
Two Perspectives: Visions of Haida Gwaii.
Comments on a controversial exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art called "'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and Modern".
Chapter 9 from The Anthropology of Art: A Reader edited by Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 172-176
Description
Author argues that gun museums—especially those attached to academic institutions—serve to silence the Indigenous voice regarding the history of the American West, promote a white-supremist agenda, and function as a tool of ongoing colonialism in the United States.