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.
[Gone But Not Forgotten: When Art Alone is Not Enough]
Alternate Title
[Interview with Gloria Larocque]
[The F Word]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Gloria Larocque
Meghan Murphy
Description
Discussion about the controversial series of paintings entitled The Forgotten by Pamela Masik which portrayed the sixty-nine missing and murdered women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The exhibition to be held at the Museum of Anthropology was cancelled due to protests.
Duration: 31:50.
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.
Healing Artist: Napie Documents Family's Suicides Through Photography
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Velencia Tso-Yazzie
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 4, Health and Healing, Summer, 2007
Description
Reports on a student artists' project which focuses on the Native American epidemic of suicide.
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists: Teacher's Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marlena Myles
Description
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
Hei Tiki and Issues of Representation Within Contemporary Māori Arts
Alternate Title
Hei Tiki and Issues of Representation Within Contemporary Maori Arts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pania Waaka
MAI Review, no. 1, 2007, pp. 1-17
Description
Looks at the guiding influences of Māori specialists in the production of hei tiki, an Indigenous iconographic form.
Highlight Summary Report: Virtual Roundtable on First Nation Citizenship Featuring Artistic Presentations From First Nations Artists
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
Description
Proceedings from the second Virtual Roundtable on First Nation Citizenship held June 20, 2011. Roundtable featured discussion on First Nation citizenship, identity, and Nationhood.
The History of Lapland and the Case of the Sami Noaidi Drum Figures Reversed
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Francis Joy
Folklore, vol. 47, 2011, pp. [113]-144
Description
Looks at some recently discovered errors in ancient manuscripts and the implications they have on Sámi history, religion, and culture today.
The History of the Term "Lazy Stitch"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joe Rosenthal
Whispering Wind, vol. 36, no. 6, Issue 256, May-June 2007, pp. 24-25
Description
Examines technique used in beadwork. Includes photographs.
Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations. Vol. 1
Alternate Title
Hearts of Nations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa
Description
Booklet uses different forms of creative expressions to draw attention to the lived realities of Indigenous women.
Humor and Resistance in Modern Native Nonfiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven Salaita
Alif, no. 31, The Other Americas, 2011, pp. 133-151
Description
Discusses Jim Northrup's Rez Road Follies, Thomas King's The Truth About Stories, and Paul Chaat Smith's Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong in terms of the techniques used to critique government actions in their respective countries.
The Huron-Wendt Craft Industry From The 19th Century To Today
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linda Sioui
Description
Displays and discusses numerous items produced by the Quebec based artisans.
Hustling and Hoaxing: Institutions, Modern Styles, and Yeffe Kimball’s “Native” Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Anne Stolte
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 77-92
Description
Uses the work of the self-proclaimed Osage artist to discuss the way that American culture's definition of "Indianness" allowed her to achieve success but created barriers for other Indigenous female artists.
Hybridity as a Strategy for Self-Determination in Contemporary American Indian Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cynthia Fowler
Social Justice, vol. 34, no. 1, [Art, Identity and Social Justice], [March] 2007, pp. 63-79
Description
Examines how a group of contemporary American Indian artists explore a redefinition of themselves, individually and collectively.
Identity in Cultural Appropriation: Native American Representations in Euro-American Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kellie Morgan Doran
Description
Focuses on images created by engraver Theodore De Bry, painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographer Edward S. Curtis.
Art Honors Thesis (B.A.), Appalachian State University, 2019.
Image as Text, Text as Image: Quilts and Quiltmaking in Eric Gansworth's Mending Skins
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Weagel
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 70-95
Description
Argues that author uses metaphor of sewing patches together for creating networks of relationships and reintegrating various aspects of an individual's life.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 70.
Images From the Likeness House
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jennifer Cador
BC Studies, no. 172, Winter, 2011/2012, pp. 127-128
Description
Book review of: Images From the Likeness House by Dan Savard.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 127.
In-Between: Contemporary Art in Australia: Cross-Culture, Contemporaneity, Globalization
Alternate Title
Gothenburg Studies in Art and Architecture; no. 33
E-Books
Author/Creator
Beatrice Persson
In Citizen's Garb: Southern Plains Images 1885-1891
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Whispering Wind, vol. 36, no. 6, Issue 256, May-June 2007, pp. 12-15
Description
Describes clothing worn by Native people reflecting the transition to Euro-American dress from photographs in the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum .
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.]
In the Presence of the Sun, and: The Journey of Tai-me
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Archuleta
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 258-260
Description
Book review of: In the Presence of the Sun and The Journey of Tai-me by N. Scott Momaday.
Indian Identities and Indian Experience: Strategies of Decolonization in the Works of Fritz Scholder
Theses
Author/Creator
Eric K. Berkemeyer
Description
Art and Art History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Arkansas, 2007.
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 Art Code: A Code to Promote Fair and Ethical Trade in Works of Art by Indigenous Artists
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Art Code
Description
Overview of the industry-led voluntary code of conduct that aims to ensure fair and ethical trade between art dealers and Indigenous visual artists.
Indigenous Art - Securing the Future: Australia's Indigenous Visual Arts and Craft Sector
E-Books
Author/Creator
Standing Committee on Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, The Senate [Australia]
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 Arts Archive: Indigenizing the Spencer Museum of Art’s Database
Theses
Author/Creator
Katelyn Trammell
Description
[Museum Studies Project (MMSt)--Kansas University, 2019.]
Indigenous Arts & Stories
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Historica Canada
Description
Website for the art and creative writing competition for Indigenous youth. Includes links to past winners' submissions, guidelines for submissions, information about prizing, and section for teachers.
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Taylor Daigneault
Amy Mazowita
Candida Rifkind
Camille Callison
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, vol. 11, no. 1, Summer, 2019, pp. i-xxxvi
Description
Focuses on material with self-identified Indigenous creators and publishers published as of March 2019. Divided into anthologies, series, and individual works.
Indigenous Comics Studies Bibliography: Scholarly Journal Articles & Books
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Candida Rifkind
Description
Brief list.
Indigenous History: A Bibliography
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Shekon Neechie
Description
Lists works written by Indigenous authors published between 2000 and 2018. Focuses on substantial books, articles and book chapters on original primary historical research, research methodology and historiography.
Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge
E-Books
Author/Creator
Brendan Hokowhitu
Nathalie Kermoal
Chris Andersen
Poia Rewi
Michael Reilly ... [et al.]
Indigenous Illustration: Native American Artists and Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture
Alternate Title
Indigenous Illustration: Native American Artists and 19th Century US Print Culture
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Phillip H. Round
American Literary History, vol. 19, no. 2, 2007, pp. 267-289
Description
Reviews several illustrated publications created by Indigenous North Americans in the 1800s and uncovers the unacknowledged talent not given credit where credit was due.
Indigenous Knowledge and Prospects for Income and Employment Generation: The Case of Handicraft Production among Rural Women in Tanzania
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beatrice Kalinda Mkenda
Jehovaness Aikaeli
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 5, June 2019, pp. 76-118
Description
Examines the extent that handicraft products can create income for women in Tanzania; considers issues of seasonal activity, a lack of start-up capital, difficulty obtaining raw materials, and low prices for finished products. Looks at the implications for policy makers wanting to improve the viability of hand crafted products as an income source for rural Tanzanian women.
Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Kevin Gover
Tim Johnson
John Haworth
Cécile R. Ganteaume ... [et al.]
Description
Comments on a personal collection of over 800,000 pieces, from throughout ten regions of the Americas, installed in the National Museum of the American Indian.
Injichaag: My Soul in Story
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rene Meshake
Interpretive Guide & Hands-on Activities: Nitssaakita’paispinnaan: We Are Still in Control
Alternate Title
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Travelling Exhibition Program
Art Gallery of Alberta
Description
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Blackfoot artists Kristy North Peigan, Smith Wright, and Lori Scalplock.Topics include survey of First Nations art in the twentieth century, introduction to Blackfoot history and culture, and artist interviews and biographies.
An Interview with Colleen Cutschall
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cathy Mattes
Colleen Cutscall
Canadian Dimension, vol. 41, no. 1, [Indian Country: Art, Politics and Resistance], January/February 2007, p. [?]
Description
Interview with the artist, art historian, educator and curator who has worked in Southwest Manitoba for over 20 years.
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.
Introduction to Indigenous Performances: Upsetting the Terrains of Settler Colonialism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mishuana Goeman
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, pp. 3-18
Description
Comments on special edition which includes articles about indigenous cinemas, media and visual art.
Inuit Modern: Art from the Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jane Sproull Thomson
Arctic, vol. 64, no. 2, June 2011, pp. 254-256
Description
Book review of Inuit Modern edited by Gerald McMaster.
Inuit Participation in the Wage and Land-based Economies of Inuit Nunangat
Alternate Title
2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey
E-Books
Author/Creator
Paula Arriagada
Amanda Bleakney
Ironic Confrontation as a Mode of Resistance: The Homeland Security T- Shirt at the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cortney Smith
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 339-364
Description
Article analyzes the narrative presented on the Homeland Security t-shirt [Graphic tee which has the words “Homeland Security” emblazoned above an image of Geronimo with three fellow Apache warriors and the words “Fighting Terrorism since 1492” located below the photograph]. Discusses how this narrative forms a rhetoric of critique and resistance.
Jane Ash Poitras
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Virginia Eichhorn
Border Crossings, vol. 26, no. 1, March 2007, pp. 98-99
Description
Review of the exhibition Linguistic Secrets.