Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
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Sketch showing the surrender to French's Scouts, led by Lord Melgund, General Middleton's chief of staff. Sketch caption : "Three Dakota scouts told their captors that they had been forced to join Riel."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Explores how Aboriginal youth have embraced and transformed a "culture" originally associated with the black urban ghetto.
Excerpt from The Small Cities Book: On the Cultural Future of Small Cities edited by W.F. Garrett-Petts.
Website for traveling exhibition includes links to two curatorial essays and biographies and works by 24 artists from the collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 43-69
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Interpretations about how Indigenous landscape painting differs from "mainstream/traditional" landscape, which the author argues is a tool of imperialism.
Sketch subtitle: White inhabitants of the Saskatchewan region leaving a settlement after an Indian raid. Two males and one female, all wearing snowshoes and heavy coats, walking through the snow. The woman is carrying a small child.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3, Fall, 2008, p. 9
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Brief editorial discusses the creation of the website Inuit Art Alive: A Virtual Exhibition, which acts as an online archive of the first half-century of Inuit artists and their works.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 9.
Students find ancient rock paintings, three boys capture graffiti painters and a young girl has a birthday planning problem in episode 19 of a stop-motion animation series.
Accompanying material: Wapos Bay: Raiders of the Lost Art: Study Guide.
Duration: 24:02
Photo of illustration made from photograph of White Cap, Sioux Chief, pledging friendship to his white brother, taken from Illustrated War News, 25 April 1885.
Brief description of William Barak's life and leadership at the Coranderrk settlement and his efforts to preserve aspects of Aboriginal tradition in his art.
Sketch of wounded men from the Battle of Fish Creek being treated; some on stretchers, one man sitting on the ground, and one man standing with two medical personnel being treated. Men on horseback in background.