Discusses the landmark exhibition Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist, the first by a First Nations artist in the history of the National Gallery of Canada.
Discussion of images of archival treaty illustrations and photographs. Plates are divided into three groups: Plates 1-4 are treaty negotiations from 1871 to 1899; Plates 5-8 are treaty annuity payments; Plates 9-12 are treaty days dealing with post-treaty issues.
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.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 23, no. 2, March 2006, pp. 138-153
Description
Comments on a series of ball-play paintings that provide an opportunity to investigate Euro-American perceptions of Native American ball-play or lacrosse in the early nineteenth century.
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.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 8-10
Description
Highlights hand-built works produced at the Matchbox Gallery located in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 8.
Native America: Understanding the Past through Things
[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]
Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the the Yale National Initiative ; 2006, Volume IV
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Teresa Tansey Pardee
Description
Unit involves students reading and evaluating images by Theodor DeBry, Simon van de Passes, Mathaeus Merian, D.F. Blanchard, George Catlin, John Gast, and Walter Ufer and contemporary photographs.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, 2000, pp. 40-45
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, 1999.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access issue, scroll to page 42.
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 2017
Refers to the works of Horace Poolaw, Dallin Maybee, Arthur Amiotte, Jay Polite Labor, and Wendy Red Star
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, pp. 30-31
Description
Article contains two pieces of art depicting, 'opposing views' of the 1876 Battle of Greasy Grass or the Battle of Little Bighorn involving George Custer.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 52, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 16-
Description
A short article accompanying and commenting on selected photographs that can be found throughout the issue.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 16.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, [Special Issue: Culture, Heritage, and Art], 2006, pp. 197-214
Description
Discusses the challenges associated with displaying historical objects in a gallery, such as the presentation of works from a non-Indigenous conception of artistic value.
Traces changes in Western attitudes toward the classification of objects and the subsequent evolution of the terminology used to refer to them.
Chapter 17 from Handbook of Material Culture edited by Chris Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer.
Describes the 8 week Arctic tour of Invitation: the Quilt of Belonging, which involved the transport of a16 person team and the120 feet long, 10 feet high quilt with 263 blocks, one for each nation of the world.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Summer, 2000, pp. 30-31
Description
Curatorial notes from exhibition of the same name mounted at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology/Tozzer Library, Massachusetts, 2001.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 30.
Website explores the excavation, weaving techniques and conservation of basketry artifacts found on the banks of the Snoqualmie river. Includes audio, text and video.