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.
Educational website focuses on the photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis. Contains links to thumbnail images with notes, lesson plans, slide show and kit manual.
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.
Distinctive Art of Haida Villages: The Northern Villages
Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
George MacDonald
Description
Discusses the architecture of houses and design styles of totems poles in the villages of Kaigani, Klinkwan, Kassan.
Part 1: Duration: 34:20.
Access to Part 2.
Canadian Diversity=Diversity&eaactue; canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, p. 42
Description
Brief description of project linking research results of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's Well-Being Index (CBW) to images of living conditions.
Scroll down to page 42 to read article.
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009, pp. 121-131
Description
Discusses the ethnographic exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis that included a group of Nootka and Kwakiutl cultural performers and artists, as well as a traditional native house, a canoe, and other artifacts.
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.
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
Franco Mondini-Ruiz and Kent Monkman discuss their work; presented in conjunction with the exhibition Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World.
Duration: 1:09:06.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-185
Description
Book reviews of:
2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick.
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie.
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer.
Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.
George Lutz recounts stories while living at Mandan, North Dakota and helping his father Rolland produce thousands of postcards of Native Americans. Includes photographs.
Transcript of talk given by Métis photographer and artist in conjunction with the exhibition Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists.
Podcast.
Artist discusses her career and work shown in exhibition Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists. Transcript available.
Duration: 18:44.
Transcript.