Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 105-123
Description
Looks at Poolaw's technique of dramatically posing subjects which he gained through film-making experience and provides an overview of various photographs taken.
A colour photograph of a wooden sign made by National Parks Branch, Government of Canada that marks the Batoche rectory as a last holdout of the Metis during their resistance in 1885.
Argues that because Curtis's photographic project The North American Indian was a creative one, viewing pictures only through the lens of their accuracy or inaccuracy is too simplistic.
Records in the Margaret Baker fonds collection tell the story of the development of the Wahpeton reserve and Lucy Baker's activities as a missionary teacher. Reflects stereotypical views of the time.
17 images (four scanned here) of the Duck Lake School Residence taken on June 1, 1981. Shown is the outside of the building, students playing a soccer game and some cement culverts.
Study guide developed to accompany play written by Marie Clements, photography by Rita Leistner. Includes synopsis, information about the playwright, curriculum connections, discussion questions, and exercises.
Father Charles Gamache recalls fifty-four years in Fond du Lac. Page one: portrait of Father Charles Gamache and Brother Jean Marie Labonte. Page two: picture of church.
John Frazer's Museum in Beauval. Page one: pictures of a ceremonial chair, herb grinder and John Frazer with axe heads. Page two: pictures of outboard motors, learning wood carving, museum visitors, two wheel cart.
Arbutus Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Focus on Indigenous Governance, 2012, pp. 61-79
Description
Discusses how the works of Shelley Niro, Chris Bose, Dana Claxton, Arthur Renwick, and Terence Houle challenge mainstream society's perceptions of Aboriginals.
[Royal Anthropological Institute of Britain and Ireland
Max Carocci]
Description
Website developed for exhibition of the same name as well as the book launch for Warriors of the Plains: The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare by Max Carocci.
Contains links to exhibition, catalogue, bibliography, videos and information on the book.
Database with a searchable online photograph collection, including by subject, date, location and tribe. The database attempts to provide students, researchers and the general public with direct access to primary material on the Plains Indian cultures.
Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada
[Cultural Studies Series]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Claudette Lauzon
Description
Discusses the photographic series Scouting for Indians which documents and challenges mainstream representations of Aboriginals.
Excerpt from Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada edited by Kirsty Robertson and J. Kerri Cronin.
The history of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, is detailed from pre-contact to the arrival of Jean Etienne Waden, first European in the La Ronge area, to present-day businesses, schools and churches in the town; numerous photographs.
Looks at the dominant visual representations of Native Americans and the use of photography as a form of resistance to racist photographic representations.
Alaska State Museums Bulletin, no. 43, August 23, 2011, p. [?]
Description
Overview of the use of photography to portray the indigenous populations and in mapping and surveying during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes photographs
Eagle Feather News, vol. 15, no. 7, July 2012, p. 5
Description
Discusses a pictorial exhibit, displayed during the June 2012 Truth and Reconciliation National Event, researched by a University of Saskatchewan Native Studies class.
Article located by scrolling to page 5.