Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 2010, pp. 4-11
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Discusses artists' responses to the impact of residential schools and cultural assimilation.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 11-16
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Discusses the artistic production which was initiated as a form of occupational therapy and later became a source of income.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3, Fall, 2008, pp. 18-27
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Attributes the lack of works that deal with the topic to historical White perceptions of sexuality, attitudes of missionaries who ran residential schools, stereotypes of masculinity, and marketplace demands.
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Critiques art exhibition mounted to celebrate the creation of new territory of Nunavut in terms of whether it accurately represented the Inuit, or was just a reflection of southern views about their art.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 28-30
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Discusses exhibition of the same name mounted at the Museum of Inuit Art, February 15 to June 30, 2010.
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Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library.
An image of an Aboriginal woman sitting on a horse in front of a teepee. There is a drying rack, circular corral structure and two horses grazing on the prairie in the background. Colours have been added to the image in a chromolithograph process.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 31-33
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Brief discussion of exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, August 20 to December 5, 2010.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 392-394
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Book review of: The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian edited by Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher.
Website makes accessible 570 objects, 2600 written documents, 500 black and white photographs and 8 sound recordings from the Shotridge collection featuring southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture.
Collection of photographs depicting individuals from the Blackfeet Nation in Browning, Montana and some scenes from Glacier National Park (U.S.) during the early twentieth century. Images included were digitized from photographic negatives.
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 344-364
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Examines traditional Indigenous art-making practices, exploring a complex range of issues extending beyond those of gender into the realm of Indigenous cultural history.
Montana: The Magazine of Western History, vol. 58, no. 3, Autumn, 2008, pp. 3-22, 92-94
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Examines how Native communities maintained their social and cultural identities amidst the attempt of middle class whites to preserve their own version of Indian culture.
Website includes material addressing Native issues and links to art gallery samples, online and print resources, Indian Affairs annual reports, audio and video collections, etc.
Focuses on detective narratives. Discusses Street Wolf by Mark Wayne Harris and Dennis Francis, Skinwalker by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, and Scalped by Jason Aaron and R. M. Guéra.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 20-30
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Highlights the unconventional prints by emerging Inuit artists featured in the portfolio Nine Works by Seven Artists.
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Produced to accompany photo exhibit which was developed for the screening of In the Land of the Head Hunters. Twenty individuals were asked to choose a photograph taken by Curtis and respond to it in a short paragraph.