Art & Colonization

Provides historical information on relations between Moravian missionaries and the Inuit of Labrador.

Features a searchable database of winter count images and interviews. Accompanied by a Teachers' Guide.

Highlights the exhibit Land, Spirit, Power which featured works by such artists as Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Rebecca Belmore.

Canadian Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2007.

"With three hundred and twenty illustrations".

"With three hundred and twenty illustrations"

Explores the origin and includes photographs of the decorated "octopus" bag and the complex differences in its meaning as it changed hands and moved from one culture to another over a period of time.

Discusses the ways in which cultural production disputes colonial expansion and reconnects Indigenous people with their spiritual traditions.

Draws on Tallchief’s autobiography and examines the role that she, using her cultural influence to exert her agency, played in complicating the colonial princess – squaw dichotomy imposed on Indigenous women in the United States.

Examines some photographers' motivations for doing photographs and the reactions of those being photographed, and argues that Natives Americans wish to preserve and interpret their own histories with photographs that illustrate all facets of their lives.

Five pictures that depict the Euro-American fantasy of these Native American women.

Examination of work by Native artist best known post World War I.

Studies the monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the changes since 2004 when Gerald Baker became the facilities first Native American superintendent.

Examines the role and use of Indigenous photography in relationship to the Anishinabe way of being, seeing, listening and hearing.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.F.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1994.

Discussion on representations and interpretations of visual images and stories presented by Native and non-Native photographers and artists.

Book review of: Native Moderns by Bill Anthes.

Overview of the material from the INDIANacts conference discussing various themes related to Aboriginal performance art.

Discusses the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (United States) and the artist's response, as illustrated in his art, is that "authenticity" is another concept designed to keep Native Americans enclosed in "their world" through a label imposed by Euro-Americans.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2001.

Examines the images of southwestern Native American women with pottery.

Examines the pain and rage in the performances of Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun work.

Discusses the images and stereotypes created by mainstream filmmakers and how Indigenous artists are challenging these representations.

Reviews museums' traditional approach to native culture and contends that the division between "white" and aboriginal history is artificial and reinforces the idea that European culture being superior to that of indigenous peoples.

Focuses on performance artist Greg Hill's Scout series.

Creative piece which imagines what Two Treatises of Civil Government would look like if it had been written by the Cherokee Rabbit Trickster, Jisdu.

Looks at four novels: Tsali by Denton R. Bedford, Fools Crow by James Welch, Tracks by Louise Erdrich and Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan. English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 1998.

Article examines textual descriptions from the letters and journals of Australian settlers of painted story boards depicting colonially prescribed behaviors and threatened consequences for not conforming. The journals and letters also describe how these picture boards were installed in various wilderness locations where known to be frequented by Indigenous peoples.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, 2011.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 1995.

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 2000.

Describes the travels and work of the artist and adventurer who was commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) to sketch portraits of Indigenous peoples. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 102.

Book reviews of: Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965-1985 by Ralph T. Coe. A Persistent Vision: Art of the Reservation Days by Richard Conn. The Song of the Loom: New Traditions in Navajo Weaving by Frederick J. Dockstader. Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form by Karen Duffek. Robes of Power: Totem Poles on Cloth Doreen Jensen and Polly Sargent. Bill Reid by Doris Shadbolt.

Archival Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba / University of Winnipeg, 2000.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University at Albany, State University of New York, 2002.

Examines colonial missionaries' use of photographs for their own purposes, other than for a strictly visual record.

Arts and Sciences Graduate School Thesis (Ph.D.)---Columbia University, 2001. Presents analytical review of artistic works including those of James Lavadour, Kay WalkingStick and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2014.

Fine Arts Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1997.

Discusses the artwork of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and what it reveals.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2010.

American Studies (M.A.)--University of New Mexico, 2013.

Centre located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories features Aboriginal and European history in the North. Includes links to online exhibits, searchable databases (archives, place names, more than 9000 photos, sound), and resources for researchers and teachers.

Examination and exploration into artwriting and the prominance of the Native American art market.

In this conference extract the author examines the history of Inuit art noting the ongoing self-representation in the work; argues that this allows for a high level of agency in Inuit art.

Discusses the metaphorical surrealism in Jim Denomie paintings showing historical and contemporary events in American and Native American history, as well as aspects of pop-culture, art history and Anglo-Indian relations.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2006.

Video of speech by Trudeau Fellow and Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music. Discusses how cultural expressions such as Indigenous performance can define cross-cultural engagement and redefine cultural stereotypes. Duration: 01:09:11.

Examines cultural and historical contexts of particular images and questions romanticization and appropriation.