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Aboriginal Arts Research Initiative: Report on Consultations

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
France Trépanier
Discusses the uniqueness and specificities of Aboriginal art and the significance of traditional and contemporary art practices on Aboriginal communities and more broadly in Canada and internationally.
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The Art of Native Life: Exhibiting Culture and Identity at the National Museum of the American Indian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel E. G. Griffin
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, 2007, pp. 167-180
Examines an exhibit Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life along the North Pacific Coast to evaluate how it is perceived and promoted by Native American staff and community consultants, and non-Native American staff at the Museum.
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ART Sauvage: Indian Acts

Alternate Title
In the Eye of a Wendat: Rethinking Action Art as Art Sauvage/Indian Acts
INDIANacts: Aboriginal Performance Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Guy Sioui Durand
Discusses various concepts of artistic expression in Aboriginal performance art.
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Art This Way: Decolonizing Art with Arthur Renwick

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judy Iseke-Barnes
Vivian Michelle Jiménez Estrada
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-32

Uses works by the artist as an illustration of the environment, attitudes and efforts to resist colonization of other Aboriginal artists, including Alfred Young Man.

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The Artist Knows Best: The De-Professionalism of a Profession

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Marie Mithlo
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 65-76
An examination of the art world's control over Indigenous art, placing the importance of art over tribal sovereignty, in regards to the Jimmie Durham Cherokee ancestry debate.
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Artists Protest Columbus Celebrations

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, October 1989, p. 13
Columbus Day 1992 marks the 500th year anniversary of the landing in America, but not all think that it is a day to celebrate.
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Arts-based Research Methods with Indigenous Peoples: an International Scoping Review

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chad Hammond
Wendy Gifford
Roanne Thomas

Seham Rabaa
Ovini Thomas ... [et al.]
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 260-276
Reviews the literature of 36 international research studies; discusses research methods involving artistic practices. Identifies areas in which arts based methods may offer benefits to an Indigenous research agenda: (a) participant engagement, (b) relationship building, (c) Indigenous knowledge creation, (d) capacity building, and (e) community action.
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Beyond Inclusion: Canadian and Indigenous Sovereignties in Mainstream Museums

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caitlin Gordon-Walker
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 129-149
Discusses complicated and shifting relationships between museums and Indigenous peoples, highlights the contradictory roles museums play, and looks at exhibitions in public galleries of Royal British Columbia Museum, Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Vancouver which show the changing nature of the relationship.
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Birch Bark Biting A Dying Indian Art

Articles » General
Published in Denosa by DNS in April of 1981, written by Graham Guest. -p01: Pictures of Angelique Merasty and her husband, and Angelique biting birch bark. -p02: Example of birch bark biting.
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Bound for the Fair: Chief Joseph, Quanah Parker, and Geronimo and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James R. Swensen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 439-470
Author examines several images contemporary to the 1904 World’s Fair, discusses the way in which Indigenous people were portrayed as "spectacle, commodity and spoil of American conquest;" articulates ways that some Indigenous Leaders both corroborated these portrayals and subverted them.
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Buffalo Boy: Then and Now

Alternate Title
INDIANacts: Aboriginal Performance Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ryan Rice
Carla Taunton
Discusses how Adrian Stimson's anti-colonial, gender-bending persona is used to expose cultural and societal truths.
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Changing Debates in Museum Studies since NAGPRA

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Max Carocci
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018, pp. 127-132
Review Essay which examines the ways that three different titles, Naamiwan’s Drum: the Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinabe Artefacts (Maureen Matthews), The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures (National Museum of the American Indian), and Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (Chip Colwell) describe, interpret and relate to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
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The Changing Symbolism of Flags in Plains Indian Cultures

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael H. Logan
Douglas A. Schmittou
Whispering Wind, vol. 37, no. 4, Issue 260, March-April 2008, pp. 4-12
Interprets the use of the American flag in Indian art and daily life. Includes photographs.
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Commemorating Father Pandosy: Diversification of the Frontier Cultural Complex and Continued Colonial Erasure in Kelowna

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Mudde
BC Studies, no. 207, Autumn, 2020, pp. 35-65,156
Looks at the 2012 unveiling of a sculpture of Father Pandosy and how the use of Sylix knowledge both mitigates the erasure of Indigenous presence and acknowledges the Indigenous community within the framework of a settler-colonial identity.
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Commemorating John A. Macdonald: Collective Remembering and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy J Stanley
BC Studies, no. 204, (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific, 01 09, 2020, pp. 89-113
Article discusses the ways that place names and public cultural artifacts in the city of Victoria enforce colonial histories and the erasure of Indigenous and Chinese narratives. Uses the removal of a statue of John A. Macdonald from the entrance to city hall as a case study to examine the similarities between the arguments of apologists and the colonial practices of early Canada.
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Composite Indigenous Genre Cheyenne Ledger Art as Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denise Low
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 83-104
Explains how Cheyenne text-images including glyphs, pictographs, winter counts, and ledger books helped sustain a unique literature form and present a legitimate alternative to European defined literacy. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.
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Conjuring Marks: Furthering Indigenous Empowerment through Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Heath Justice
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 3-11
Editorial article by the guest editor of the “Empowerment Through Literature” special issue addresses key themes and concerns of the articles contained therein.
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Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery

Alternate Title
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
McQuillen Studios
Teaching resource centers on portraits produced by George Catlin in the 19th century.
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Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery

Alternate Title
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
McQuillen Studios
Features portraits of Indigenous subjects painted by George Catlin, who traveled the United States during the 1830s to capture images of the "vanishing race". Includes biographical information, excerpts from his writings, general historical information and exercises to teach students to think critically about the works and the stereotypes found in them. Compares his portraits to photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis in the early 1900s.
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Cultural Mediations: Or How to Listen to Lewis and Clark's Indian Artifacts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Stevens
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, 2007, pp. 181-202
Presents author's perspective on evaluating and studying the Harvard University museum exhibition of the remaining Native American artifacts from the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Cultural Property

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Irene J. Winter
Art Journal, vol. 52, no. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 103-107
Book review of: The Return of Culture Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield.
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The Danger of a Single Story

Alternate Title
TED Talks
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses the way that story shapes our understanding of people and places, and how only having one narrative about a place or a people leads to a stereotypical and incomplete understanding. Duration: 18:33.
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Edmond Morris among the Saskatchewan Indians and the Fort Qu’Appelle Monument

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean McGill
Saskatchewan History, vol. 35, no. 3, Autumn, 1982, pp. 101-107

Discusses the life and art of Edmond Morris. Morris lived in Manitoba as a young child, the youngest child of Alexander Morris, First Chief Justice of MB and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories. Morris’s work focused on portraiture of Treaty Chiefs, and “pure Cree types.” Entire issue on one PDF, scroll to page 101.

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The Entangled Gaze: Indigenous and European Views of Each Other

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gerald McMaster
Julia Lum
Kaitlin McCormick
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 125-140
Introduction to and commentary on the special issue which features extracts from a conference with the same name and articles which focus on the ways that Indigenous peoples represent European people(s), and vice versa, in art.
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European Ways of Talking About the Art of Northwest Coast First Nations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Graeme Chalmers
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 1995, pp. 113-127
Earlier Euro-centric views caused Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art to be viewed as a "quaint variant of 'real' art." This art is finally being recognized as art in itself, which has its own inherent value.
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