Gambling on Authenticity: Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-So-New Indian
Alternate Title
American Indian Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Scott Andrews
Becca Gercken
Jim Donomie
Heid E. Erdrich
Julie Pelletier
American Indian Studies Series
Geology of National Parks, 3D and Photographic Tours: American Indians of the Southwest, 1871-1875
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
U.S. Department of the Interior
Description
Websites includes photographs of American Indians posing in Aboriginal dress or activities during the U.S. Geological and Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian and the Powell Survey of the Colorado River Canyons.
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery – Classroom Activities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Education Office
Description
Focuses on portraits of Indigenous subjects painted by George Catlin, who traveled the United States during the 1830s to capture images of the "vanishing race". Includes general historical background, extracts from primary sources, and exercises and discussion questions.
Glimpsing Our Past: An Archival Photo Project
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nadine Charabin
Paula Daigle
Andy Miller
Saskatchewan History, vol. 69, no. 1, Winter, 2017-2018, pp. 5-7
Description
Describes a project undertaken collaboratively by First Nations University (FNU) in Regina, the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan (PAS), and the Pasqua First Nation, to research and provide better descriptive information for a number of photos of First Nations people in the FNU library.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 5.
The Grand Hall: First Peoples of Canada's Northwest Coast; Treasures of the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Hannah Turner
BC Studies, no. 190, Histories of Settler Colonialism, Summer, 2016, pp. 137-139
Description
Book reviews of: The Grand Hall by Leslie Tepper.
Treasures of the RoyalBritishh Columbia Museum and Archives compiled by Jack Lohman.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 137.
Grant Writing Toolkit
Alternate Title
FPCC Grant Writing Tools
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
First Peoples' Cultural Council
Description
Includes links to information on grant writing for language advocates and artists, sample applications, and a language needs assessment guide.
The Great Shimmering
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Norman Hallendy
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 2, April/May 2017, pp. 64-66
Description
Reports on a large concentration of inuksuit at Cape Dorset and also includes an excerpt from, An Intimate Wilderness: Arctic Voices In A Land Of Vast Horizons.
The Grey Nuns Northwest Territory Collection: Embroidery in the Mackenzie Valley
Theses
Author/Creator
Abra Wenzel
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2016.
Grizzly Claw Necklaces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Norman Feder
Milford G. Chandler
Whispering Wind, vol. 44, no. 2, 2016, pp. 9-19
Description
Discusses different tribal styles of prestigious necklaces worn by men.
Haidawood: A Social Media Approach to Indigenous Language Revitalization
Alternate Title
Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology ; 22nd,
Unity, Diversity and Culture
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kenneth Rajan Leslie
Description
Describes the unique project which makes stop motion animations featuring Haida words, phrases and stories, using carved puppets and sets made from readily available materials. The project also incorporates a 5-step community animation process: script, pre-production, production, post production and distribution.
Honoring the Disappeared in the Art of Lorena Wolffer, Rebecca Belmore, and the Walking With Our Sisters Project
Alternate Title
Honouring the Disappeared in the Art of Lorena Wolffer, Rebecca Belmore, and the Walking With Our Sisters Project
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Deborah Root
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1 & 2, 2016, pp. 43-51
Description
Discusses performances by Lorena Wolf who speaks about hundreds of women murdered in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico; Christi Belcourt's street performance Vigil and a community project representing and honouring the lives of missing and murdered women and children.
Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity
E-Books
Author/Creator
Laura E. Smith
Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity
E-Books
Author/Creator
Laura E. Smith
"Imitation White Man": Images of Transformation at the Carlisle Indian School
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lonna M. Malmsheimer
Studies in Visual Communication, vol. 11, no. 4, Fall, 1985, pp. 54-75
Description
Using photographs from the Carlisle Indian boarding school to examine the historical value of photographs as both visual artifacts and constructed ideals the same as the written word.
Improving Visual Arts Programs for Navajo Students Through Discipline-Based Art Education
Theses
Author/Creator
Roberto Randall Beeshligaiiyitsidi
Description
Arts Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1985.
In/consequential Relationships: Refusing Colonial Ethics of Engagement in Yuxweluptun’s Inherent Rights, Vision Rights
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah King
BC Studies, no. 193, Spring, 2017, pp. 187-192
Description
Reviews artist's virtual reality installation from the exhibit Unceded Territories.
In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization
E-Books
Author/Creator
Michael Greyeyes
Tracy Devine Guzmán
Arifani Moyo
Margaret Werry
Faye Ginsburg … [et al.]
Indian and Metis Friendship Centre Princess Crowned Elizabeth Stonesand
Images » Photographs
Description
File contains 7 negatives from the crowning of Elizabeth Stonesand as Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre Princess on April 20, 1985. Seven scanned images show Stonesand recieving her title.
Indian Artist: Eddy Poitras
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Deanna Wuttunee
Saskatchewan Indian, Special Edition, July 1985, p. 47
Description
Describes career of a Regina artist who graduated from the Art Program at the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College (SICC).
Indian Photographs: Amelia Frost and the Presbyterian Mission
Alternate Title
Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer in Focus
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Smithsonian Institution
[Joanna Cohan Scherer
Jim Kochert]
Description
Presents photographs from the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in 1887 during the Presbyterian Mission.
Indian Youth Heritage Days Committee Member
Images » Photographs
Description
File contains one negative showing an assembled group of delegates at an Indian Youth Heritage Days Committee meeting, presumably in Prince Albert, SK, on May 22, 1985.
Indian Youth Heritage Days Conference
Images » Photographs
Description
File contains 2 negatives of a panel discussion group from the Indian Youth Heritage Days conference (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on July 3, 1985.
Indian Youth Heritage Days Conference, Tipi Village
Images » Photographs
Description
File contains 3 negatives of a tipi village from the Indian Youth Heritage Days conference (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on July 3, 1985.
Indians Everywhere: Paul Chaat Smith on "Americans"
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Paul Chaat Smith
Description
Curator of the exhibition entitled Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian discusses the exhibition about the pervasiveness of the image of the American Indian in popular culture and the controversy surrounding the validity of artist Jimmy Durham's Cherokee identity.
Duration: 58:51.
Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press
Alternate Title
The History of Communication
E-Books
Author/Creator
John M. Howard
Indigenous Artists, Ingenuity, and Resistance at the California Missions After 1769
Theses
Author/Creator
Yve Barthelemy Chavez
Description
Art History Thesis (Ph.D)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2017.
Indigenous Communities [Panel] = Communautés autochtones
Alternate Title
Cultural Preservation for Indigenous Communities through Libraries & Archives
Governance of Cultural Policy Conference
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Deborah Lee
Tasha Hubbard
Carol Greyeyes
Dorothy Myo
Description
Indigenous Studies librarian discusses cultural preservation initiatives; director of Two Worlds Colliding discusses importance of the arts; coordinator of U of S Aboriginal Theatre Program discusses role of collaboration in furthering culture; and president of the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre discusses culture as a way of life.
Duration: 51:11.
Indigenous Futurisms in North American Indigenous Art: The Transforming Visions of Ryan Singer, Daniel McCoy, Topaz Jones, Marla Allison, and Debra Yepa-Pappan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Baudemann
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 117-150
Description
Discusses how the work of these visual artists participates in Indigenous storytelling about the future by engaging with contemporary artistic practices and mainstream popular culture; author examines the way that the artists challenge Western colonial narratives and stereotypes.
Inspired by Plains Indian Drawings: The Mystery of Lieutenant Adolphus von Luettwitz's Drawings of the Plains Indian War
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith Bookbinder
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Summer, 2016, pp. 161-185
Description
Comments on a U.S. soldier's work that resembles Native American ledger drawings.
The Institutionalization of Art Within Two Internal Colonies: A Comparative Study of the Inuit and the Navajo
Theses
Author/Creator
Kathleen Anne Cross M'Closkey
Description
Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.S.Sc.)--University of Windsor, 1985.
Interconnected Worlds: Kinngait Drawings in the North and South
Theses
Author/Creator
Amy Rebecca Prouty
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2016.
Interpreting the Transnational Material Culture of the 19th-Century North American Plains Indians: Creators, Collectors, and Collections
Theses
Author/Creator
Alida S. Boorn
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kansas State University, 2016.
Intertribal Powow held at Pinegrove Correction Centre
Images » Photographs
Description
File contains 12 negatives of dancers from the Intertribal Pow Wow held at the Pinegrove Correction Centre, Prince Albert, SK, August 25, 1988.
An Interview with Susan Point
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Becky Rynor
Susan Point
Description
Discusses why the artist feels it is important to push her personal artistic, emotional and creative boundaries.
The Inuit Sea Goddess
Theses
Author/Creator
Nelda Swinton
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 1985.
Iroquois Beaded Drawstring Reticule Purses
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Green
Whispering Wind, vol. 44, no. 6, 2016, pp. 6-8
Description
Discusses several examples made by Iroquois for the souvenir market.
James Earle McClees: Delegations to Washington, D.C. 1857-1858
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Heriard
Whispering Wind, vol. 44, no. 2, 2016, pp. 24-27
Description
Archival photographs.
James Luna and the Paradoxically Present Vanishing Indian
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth S. Hawley
Contemporaneity, vol. 5, Agency in Motion: Agency & Reenactment in Visual Culture, 2016, pp. [5]-26
Description
Argues "that Luna's performances comment not only upon western preconceptions of Native Americans, but also upon the ways that Native Americans have historically reasserted their agency by manipulating such expectations, staging themselves to fit the stereotype."
Kenojuak Ashevak
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Darlene Coward Wight
Canada's History, vol. 96, no. 1, February/March 2016, p. 28
Description
Brief biographical article on a pioneering female Inuit artist who began her career in the late 1950s at Cape Dorset.
Kent Monkman: A Trickster With a Cause Crashes Canada's 150th Birthday Party
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Everett-Green
The Globe and Mail, January 06, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Explains paintings in exhibition, Shame and Prejudice at the University of Toronto Art Museum January 26 to March 3, 2017.
Kent Monkman: Casualties of Modernity
Alternate Title
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kent Monkman
Description
Noted Canadian Cree artist discusses the evolution of his artist practice.
Duration: 50:56.
Ktaqamkuk: Remembering and Re-Imagining Our Relations
Theses
Author/Creator
Jordan Bennett
Description
Visual Arts Thesis (MFA)--University of British Columbia, 2016.
Lakota Style Beaded Vest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Kostelnik
Whispering Wind, vol. 45, no. 1, 2016, pp. 22-23
Description
Discusses the beadwork crafted by an English student, John Bishop who lives in the United Kingdom.
Lakota Women's Artistic Strategies in Support of the Social System
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marsha Clift Bol
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, 1985, pp. 33-51
Description
Determines the function of the arts in Lakota society before the move to the reservation.
The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Shaun A. Stevenson
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 2, 2016, pp. 144-145
Description
Book review of: The Land We Are edited by Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, Sophie McCall.
Late Precontact and Protohistoric Glass Beads of Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margan Allyn Grover
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 53, no. 2, 2016, pp. 69-80
Description
Examines evidence that beads originating in China were available through Indigenous trade networks before contact.
Legacy Carved In Stone
Articles » General
Canada's History, vol. 96, no. 6, December-January 2016/2017, pp. 12-13
Description
Describes the origins of a 132 piece collection of Inuit sculptures and prints donated to the Ontario Art Gallery in Hamilton.
Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch on the Northwest Coast
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
U'Mista Cultural Society
Description
Website provides links to introduction to Potlatch, people, lands, history, language, educational resources, and a virtual tour.
maamakaajichige mazinaakizon: A Journey of Relating With/Through Our Anishinabe Photographs
Theses
Author/Creator
Celeste Pedri
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2016.