Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3, Summer, 2015, pp. 301-307
Description
Book review essay:
The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian by Shamoon Zamir.
For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo.
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.
An essay and information pertaining to early female photographer Geraldine Moody and includes information relating to her interactions with indigenous peoples.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3-4, Nunutsiavut!, Fall/Winter, 2015, pp. [22]-29
Description
Looks at the absence of Nunatsiavut art from the art market and delves into the reasons why.
Entire issue on one pdf. To locate article, scroll to page 22.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, pp. 98-111
Description
Looks at two groups photographed and interviewed for the project: First Nations youth from Calgary, Alberta and Te Ora Hou, a Maori youth organization in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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.
Canada's History, vol. 95, no. 3, June-July 2015, p. 19
Description
Contains a plea from the Hudson Bay Company Archives asking for help identifying people from thousands of photographs taken in northern Canadian communities from 1920 to 1960.
Indian dancers from St. Mary's School poses in front of the stage in the Pensioners and Pioneers Pavilion where they had performed at a potluck supper held by the association's member. The hoop dancers wear matching blue shirts. The girl in the red dress performed a shawl dance.
Interview with artist about portrait series Perceptions, which addresses racism. Describes portraits taken of Aboriginal people in two lights.
Duration: 19:57.
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.
Images of the Prairie North at the Turn of the Century
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Frank J.P Crean
Native Studies Review , vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 103-127
Description
Archival black and white photographs taken between 1908 and 1909 during the Frank J. Crean exploration expedition ranging from the Saskatchewan River valley to the Athabaska River and Portage la Loche in the east.
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
File contains one negative showing a Pow Wow dancer at the small world Day Care Co-op clad in traditional dress and speaking with children, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, May 8, 1991.
Matika Wilbur shares photographs and stories from Project 562, her multi-year project to document members of federally recognized tribes in the United States.
Duration: 1:42:58.
Four slides of a man and children at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
Four slides of a two women and a child with an upside down Canadian flag at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
A slide of two boys holding placards reading "Is Canada a Democracy?" and "Mulroney Balogna Blatant Racism" at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.