Discusses artist's controversial Indian paintings from 1960s and 70s in exhibition mounted by The National Museum of the American Indian; includes brief biography.
Presents several of the artist's late paintings (1880) that emerged as works of protest. From exhibition mounted at the National Gallery of Art, September 14, 2008 - January 4, 2009.
A photo of the girl's dormitory of the old Anglican Mission school at La Ronge in August 1919. This school was destroyed by fire in March 1920 and a new one built. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
A photo of a group of Cree women and children along the street at La Ronge. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
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.
The Hudson's Bay Company Stores at Lac La Ronge. Photographed by Annie McKay and Christina Bateman during their journey from Prince Albert to La Ronge, Saskatchewan in 1919.
A photo of a hunter taken by Christina Bateman and Annie McKay in Central (geographic) Saskatchewan, during their journey from Prince Albert to La Ronge, 1919.
Seachange, The Face-to-Face, Spring, 2010, pp. 51-80
Description
Looks at the history of Native Net, a nation-wide computer based multimedia communication network, and the development of CyberPowWow, an online gallery and chat room produced by the Aboriginal collective Nation to Nation.
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.
A photograph of a group of Aboriginal people (families with children) seated on the grass enjoying the day at the Battleford Fair in 1919. White slat fence in the background.
Comments on an appropriate approach to Aboriginal art and the issues of art production, art reception and representation with specific reference to Bush Tomato Dreaming by artist Lucy Ngwarai Kunoth.
World Literature Today, vol. 83, no. 3, May/June 2009, pp. 47-49
Description
Discusses how American Indians employ visual methods of storytelling to comment on their world. Content based on exhibit from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture entitled, Comic Art Indigène:Where Comics and the Indigenous Meet
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Deborah Magee Sherer
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Suitable for ages 12 and up.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 2010, pp. 4-11
Description
Discusses artists' responses to the impact of residential schools and cultural assimilation.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 4.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 1
Description
Highlights the accomplishments of Dennis and Melanie Jackson for their animated series, Wapos Bay, including a National Aboriginal Achievement Award.
Article located on page 1.
Image of McKenzie (up close and facing camera) paddling canoe. Description reads: "Jeremiah McKenzie one of our canoemen leaving Lac La Ronge. Trip of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay to La Ronge.
Image of Morin standing on the road, buildings and brush in the background. Description reads: "John Morin, our canoeman from Lac La Ronge to The Pas came to station to say 'good-bye' to us."
Image of Morin paddling in canoe (close-up facing camera) wearing overalls. Description reads: "John Morin one of our canoemen leaving Lac La Ronge. Trip of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay to La Ronge."
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 392-394
Description
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.
Christina Bateman and Annie McKay leaving their first camp at Willie Bear's farm in the Sturgeon Valley (Sturgeon Lake) during their journey from Prince Albert to La Ronge, 1919.