Contesting Art: Art, Politics, and Identity in the Modern World
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Jeremy MacClancy
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Introduction to themes in the volume which include: anti-colonialism, anti-racism; painting propaganda, picturing power; individuals, groups, categories; art as property; concepts and objects; and the marketing of art.
Chapter 1 from Contesting Art: Art, Politics, and Identity in the Modern World edited by Jeremy MacClancy.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 265-298
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Literary criticism article which explores the way that Indigenous bodies appear and are used to articulate the struggles between Indigenous and Euro-American cultures in the novels Winter in the Blood and Bearhear.
Olympic Perspectives: Third International Symposium for Olympic Research
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K.B. Wamsley
Mike Heine
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Discusses the controversy surrounding the Lubicon's call for a boycott of The Spirit Sings exhibit mounted at the Glenbow Museum during the 1988 Olympics.
Excerpt from Olympic Perspectives: Third International Symposium for Olympic Research edited by Robert K. Barney, Scott G. Martyn, Douglas A. Brown, and Gordon H. MacDonald.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, Writing about (Writing about) American Indians, Winter, 1996, pp. 29-39
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Authors examines the moral ethics, professional responsibilities, and the potential pitfalls for historians and other academics who are studying and writing about the history of what are now the Americas, and about Indigenous peoples and cultures.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 703-712
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Literary Criticism article which explores the motivations of and the stylistic choices made by Mourning Dove and her collaborator, Lucullus V. McWhorter, in the novel Co-ge-we-a, The Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Montana Cattle Range<.>
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 10, no. 2&3, Summer/Fall, 1989, pp. 27-30
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Rita Joe discusses her poetry and how she attempts to show Native people in a more favourable light, which is one way for her to express concern about the way Mi’kmaq were treated and the racism they suffered.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 713-728
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Article presents two different narratives surrounding the treaty rights of the Chippewa people, the first is the perspective of the author, Chippewa band member and Journalist, Patty Loew. The second narrative is one that has been constructed through ethnohistorical research.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Special Issue on The Shadow Catcher: The Uses of Native American Photography, 1996, pp. 111-128
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Looks at the Western image of the Native American as determined by photographs.
Ethnohistory, vol. 44, no. 4, Autumn, 1997, pp. 727-739
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Ten documentary reviews:
Itam Hakim Hopiit by Victor Masayesva, Jr.
Siskyavi: The Place of Chasms by Victor Masayesva, Jr.
The Place of Falling Waters by Roy Bigcrane and Thompson Smith.
Pueblo Peoples: First Contact by George Burdeau and Larry Walsh.
Transitions by Darrel Kipp and Joe Fisher.
Warrior Chiefs in a New Age by Dean Bearclaw.
Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations by Gary Rhine and Fidel Moreno.
In the White Man's Image by Christine Lesiak and Matt Jones.
Kahnesatake: 270 Years of Resistance by Alanis Obomsawin.
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Examines the domains of science and policy in the context of Aboriginal issues and how film representations of Aboriginal people are linked to media portrayals.
Book review of: Encounters: Early Images of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples from the Library Collections of the Geological Survey of Canada by John A. Stevens.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Special Issue on The Shadow Catcher: The Uses of Native American Photography, 1996, pp. 129-136
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Examines the different perspectives archivists and Aboriginal versus non-Aboriginal users have in terms of photogragh use.
Cultural Anthropology, vol. 11, no. 4, November 1996, pp. 547-576
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Investigates the deconstruction of Native American identity, bloodlines, racism, and stereotypes by examining the works of Native American visual artists and authors.
Discusses the long history of the practice of non-Indigenous people appropriating and performing Indigenous cultures.
Chapter from volume four of the Handbook of North American Indians edited by William C. Sturtevant.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 675-702
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Author examines the neocolonial practice of cultural appropriation as “theft of cultural property” and notes its connection to the erasure of history and language performed by colonial states.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 1997, pp. 229-254
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Argues that future research will determine whether Native Americans share in biased condemnations against suspects in crimes, based on internalized negative stereotypes.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Gerald Vizenor, Spring, 1997, pp. [47]-59
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Discusses how Vizenor, in Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles, not only challenges how whites perceive Indians, but how Native Americans see themselves, as he asks the question "What does Indian mean?".
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, Writing about (Writing about) American Indians, Winter, 1996, pp. 49-55
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Author criticizes the ways that History scholars portray Indigenous peoples in their writings with a particular focus on Richard White’s The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, 1996, pp. 91-119
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Deals with problems of identity, especially as a construct imposed upon indigenous peoples. Also examines the identity threshold experience in Silko and Momaday's works.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Special Issue on The Shadow Catcher: The Uses of Native American Photography, 1996, pp. 51-64
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Examines some photographers' motivations for doing photographs and the reactions of those being photographed, and argues that Natives Americans wish to preserve and interpret their own histories with photographs that illustrate all facets of their lives.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 409-422
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Author examines different frameworks and themes related to mixed ethnicities/identities and considers how these factors might motivate an author to create mixed characters.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 4, Series 2: Sherman Alexie, Winter, 1997, pp. 52-70
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Contends that the author uses his characters to illustrate the damage stereotypes, imposed by the dominant culture, have inflicted on the Native American psyche.
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