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.
Graffiti to Graphics: Streetwize Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Poster Project
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Anita Heiss
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 5, September/October 1993, pp. 22-23
Description
Streetwize conducted a series of visual art workshops with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to make posters on HIV/AIDS that would be meaningful to Aboriginal youth.
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 Heart of One-ness: The Art of Christi Belcourt
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joyce Green
Canadian Dimension, vol. 38, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2004, pp. 31-32
Description
Overview of the Métis artists' uses of flowers and beads in her designs to represent identity, diversity, fluidity and authenticity.
Houle, Robert. Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Canadian Art, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter, 1993, pp. 63-[?]
Description
Describes alterations the artist made to Lothar Baumgarten's Monument for the Native People of Ontario in the Walker Court of the Gallery.
Images of Assimilation: Photographs of Indian Schools in Arizona
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Margolis
Jeremy Rowe
History of Education, vol. 33, no. 2, March 2004, pp. 199-230
Description
Discusses informal photographs which relate to the structure of the schools, their physical environment and the daily lives of teachers and students. Argues that because they provide social and cultural context, visual representations should be treated as important primary sources in research.
Images of Native People Associated with the Kelsey Event
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul C. Thistle
Native Studies Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 1993-1994, pp. 33-50
Description
Argues that negative, stereotypical depictions are significant because they both reflect and influence public opinion and that artistic interpretation failed to evolve at the same pace as historical literature.
Impurity and Danger
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Current Anthropology, vol. 34, no. 1, February 1993, pp. 93-100
Description
Review of exhibitions Indigena: Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples on Five Hundred Year and Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Indigenous as an Allegorical Figure in Antonio Caro's Homenaje a Manuel Quintín Lame and Childo Meireles' Zero Cruzeiro
Theses
Author/Creator
Juan Andrés Gaitán
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2004.
Inner Weavings: Cultural Appropriateness for a Torres Strait Island Woman Artist of Today
Theses
Author/Creator
Janice Peacock
Description
Visual Art Thesis (D.V.A.)--Griffith University, 2004.
Interview with Harry Walters, Navajo, Director of the Diné Community College Museum, Tsaile, AZ, October 29, 2000
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Selbach
Harry Walters
Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 85-90
Description
Director comments on museum being downsized from six floors to one and the lack of funds to operate the museum.
Interview With Jennie E. Rodrìguez, Executive Director of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 15, 2001
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Selbach
Jennie E. Rodrìguez
Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 95-100
Description
Interview with director of center which promotes Latino traditions to local Latinos and others.
Interview with Joanna Bigfeather, Cherokee, Director of the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum (IAIA), Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 28, 2000
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Selbach
Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 79-84
Description
Discusses past, present and future directions and the issue of educating the public about contemporary art as an expression of living and changing culture.
Interview With René Yáñez, Artist, Co-founder of the Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 13, 2001
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Selbach
René Yáñez
Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 107-111
Description
Looks at a gallery founded in 1970 by a group of Mexican-American artists and activists.
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.
Interview with Vernon Haskie, Navajo Jeweler, Lukachukai, Navajo Nation Reservation, AZ, USA, October 27, 2000
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Selbach
Vernon Haskie
Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 91-94
Description
Comments on the awards won and the thriving career of a full-time jeweler.
Inuit Crafts in Broughton Island, Northwest Territories: Producer and Consumer Influences
Theses
Author/Creator
Zarah Chun
Description
Clothing and Textiles Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1993.
[Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Deborah Kigjugalik Webster
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, Art et représentation / Art and Representation, 2004, pp. 202-206
Description
Book review of: Irene Avaalaaqiaq by Judith Nasby.
Issues in Art Therapy With the Culturally Displaced American Indian Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helene Burt
The Arts in Psychotherapy , vol. 20, no. 2, 1993, pp. 143-151
Description
Discusses how art is used to help Native American youth reconcile emotional conflicts and reconnect to their culture.
Jennifer Murphy
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Terence Dick
Canadian Art, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2004, p. 96
Description
Discusses the exhibition at Greener Pastures
Contemporary Art by the artist Jennifer Murphy.
Jimmie Durham: Postmodernist "Savage"
Articles » General
Art in America, vol. 81, no. 2, February 1993, pp. 62-?
Description
Overview of the Cherokee artist, writer, poet and performance artist 's work and inspirations.
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.
A Laguna Porfolio
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Marmon
Robert M. Nelson
Leslie Marmon Silko
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 63-75
Description
Photographs of Leslie Marmon Silko's family and passages from Storyteller.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Berry
Museum Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 2, June 1993, p. 95–98
Description
Book review of: Land, Spirit, Power by Diana Nemiroff, Robert Houle, Charlotte Townsend-Gault.
Learning With Literature in the Canadian Elementary Classroom: Aboriginal Authors & Illustrators
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Joyce Bainbridge
Sylvia Pantaleo
Description
Site provides biographical sketches and links to other sites offering Canadian First Nations authors.
Lectures sur les Arts Visuels Inuit du Nunavik
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Louis Gagnon
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, Art et Représentation / Art and Representation, 2004, pp. 171-183
Description
Reviews six books about Inuit art:
Celebrating Inuit Art, 1948-1970 by Maria von Finckentein
Inuit Art/An Introduction by Ingo Hessel.
Histoires de l’Art des Inuits du Québec by Michel Nöel and Jean Chaumely.
Le Refus de l’Oubli: Femmes-Sculptures du Nunavik by Céline Saucier.
The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture by Harold Seidelman and James Turner.
Sculpture of the Inuit by George Winton.
Reviews in French.
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.
Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labour: Photographic
Representations of Indian Boarding Schools
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Margolis
Visual Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 2004, pp. 72-96
Description
Examines how Indian school photos of American Indians were used to manufacture images of acculturation and assimilation.
Making a Cheyenne Style Knife Sheath From a Photograph
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alexander Kozlov
Whispering Wind, vol. 34, no. 6, November-December 2004, pp. 4-[?]
Description
Shows how to use a photograph of a beaded knife sheath from pre-1855 to make a pattern.
The Manichaean Body: Rebecca Belmore's Art Making in the Context of Socially Responsive Activist Art
Theses
Author/Creator
Irmela Agnes Dmytruk
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2004.
Marie Watt: A Blanketed Space
Alternate Title
Continuum: 12 Artists
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lara M. Evans
Description
Discussion of the artist's works mounted as part of the Continuum: 12 Artists exhibition.
Medicine through Comics: Wheels Are Turning on the Road to Healing: Native Americans through the Lens of Francophone Graphic Novels
Theses
Author/Creator
Nathalie Bleser
Description
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Mexico, 2017.
Memorializing Historical Imprints: Analysis of Historical Texts and Photographs at Kitselas, 1850-1930
Theses
Author/Creator
Lidia Jendzjowsky
Description
Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2004.
Native American Dolls
Alternate Title
Smithsonian in Your Classroom
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Genevieve Marie Simermeyer
Lynn-Steven Engelke
Smithsonian in Your Classroom, Fall, 2004, pp. 1-28
Description
Lesson plan for elementary school students which looks at Native American dolls, how they are made and the cultures they represent.
The Native Cowboy Art of Brian Seesequasis
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 22, no. 4, April 1993, p. 13
Description
Highlights an exhibit of works by artist Brian Seesequasis (1958-) of the Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation held at the Regional Interpretive Centre in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan.
Native Images: Reserve Hospitals in Southern Alberta, 1890 to 1930
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Laurie Meijer Drees
Native Studies Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 1993-1994, pp. [93]-109
Description
Introduction and archival black and white on the development of health care facilities on the Blackfoot and Blood reserves.
Native Pop: Bunky Echo-Hawk and Steven Paul Judd Subvert Star Wars
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Olena McLaughlin
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 30-52
Description
Author discusses the work of two Indigenous pop-artists and how they appropriate iconic mainstream imagery in order to subvert popular narratives and stereotypes in the Star Wars franchise and in the wider film industry.
Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism
Alternate Title
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Natchee Blu Bard
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series
Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story
Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
Description
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
[New France, New Horizons: On French Soil in America]
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
[Pauline Arseneault
Victorin Chabot
Martine Cornède
Isabelle Dion
Lorraine Gadoury ... et al.]
Description
Virtual exhibition and database containing more than one million images commemorating the 400th anniversary of French presence in North America
No Tourist
Alternate Title
Material: George Heye & His Golden Rule
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Jane Lenz
American Indian Art Magazine, vol. [29], no. [4], Autumn, 2004, pp. 86-105
Description
Discusses George Heye's collection of Northwest Coast metal objects which included masks, rattles, feast spoons, and daggers created for sale as "curios".