Art & Colonization

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2017.

Comments on early twentieth century Native American artists and their paintings.

Educational Theatre Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1999.

Describes the varying themes, aesthetics, and influencing factors at play in “Native” or “Indian” art and how those issues are discussed in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water, Eddie Chuculate's Cheyenne Madonna, Gerald Vizenor's Shrouds of White Earth, and Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag.

Explores the works of Alanis Obomsawin, Shelley Niro, Kent Monkman, and Dana Claxton.

Article is the Associate Editor of AIQ’s introduction to the journal’s special issue on repatriation. Discusses issues of remains and sacred objects that have been collected, used for research, and stored in museums and other cultural institutions. Discusses the different disciplines that have historically and continue to be party to the collection and repatriation of Indigenous peoples’ material culture and personal remains.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2010

Author--who is an anthropologist specializing in Coast Salish culture, a member and chair of the collections committee, and a board member of the Museum--discusses several examples of repatriating objects, and the process of developing a formal policy.

Art and Visual Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2016. Refers to works by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D)--McGill University, 1987.

Author examines the use of color by the Haida and Tlingit nations; discusses the cultural significance of the colors used, and the components of and technologies for creating the pigments.

Book reviews of: 2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock. Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick. Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie. Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer. Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2014.

Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice in Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, 2014

Art History and Communications Studies Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2015

In the 19th century many Cree and Ojibway (Saulteaux) became permanent residents of the grassland borders taking on parts of material culture of the Plains. This paper looks at the change in footwear.

Reviews three Indigenous visual artistic projects, created in response to the arrest of serial murderer Robert Pickton, and their representations of Indigenous women's historical mistreatment.

Studies the Plains Indian image created by the non-Indian over the last several hundred years.

Examines a collection of past performances by James Luna and Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

Discusses the competing perspectives in the movement among Anglo women to revive and preserve paintings and pottery of Native American Indians.

Dramatic Art Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1981.

Book review of: Songhees Pictorial by Grant Keddie.

Book review of: The Storage Box of Tradition: Kwakiutl Art, Anthropologists, and Museums, 1881-1981, by Ira Jacknis.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2001.

Review of exhibition held at Simon Fraser University's Audain Gallery in 2016.

Article offers a historical perspective on the cataloguing and description of various undocumented Arctic artifacts in French Museums.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2011.

The transformation of First Nation arts and crafts over the past century in response to changing mainstream demand, includes a history of the Indian art and crafts movement.

Cultural Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2012.

Overview of the conference on Aboriginal performance art and issues raised by Aboriginal performance artists.

First Nation efforts to maintain their dance and ceremony.

Arts Thesis, (Ph.D.)--University of Georgia, 2016.

Interview with the Plains Cree artist and curator.

Presents author's knowledge of Alaska Native music and dance.

Article provides a literary historical reading of photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) photo archive of the “relocation project.” Discusses the relocation as both an institutional and an aesthetic venture.

First National Trudeau Fellow discusses the Canadian art establishment's failure to recognize continuum of Aboriginal art or its aesthetic. Duration: 1:08:05.

Examines the work of Frederick Alexie (Frederick Alexcee), a Tsimshian carver and painter and Mathias Joe, a Squamish carver, during the assimilation policy period of 1867-1951 in British Columbia.

Article engages in a postmodernist cultural critique of the process of “inverted appropriation” in which an oppressed or marginalized culture makes use of the technological or cultural pieces of the dominant cultures as a way of resisting assimilation and erasure.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by W. H. Holmes The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands by Jesse Walter Fewkes Certain Antiquities of Eastern Mexico by Jesse Walter Fewkes

Expresses concern about disappearing traditional art skills and examines the role schools could play in reversing this trend.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Université Laval, 2004.

Authors examines the (neo)colonial narratives present the English print media coverage of the Glenbow Museum’s 1988 exhibit The Spirit Sings. The exhibit, a headliner of the 1988 Winter Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, is often considered to be the “catalyst for Canada's Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (1992).”

Literary criticism article which deals with the translation and internationalization of the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Discusses source material, misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples, and the promotion of colonial narratives.

Article examines the work of contemporary artists Leah Decter, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, and Caroline Monnet. Discusses the artists’ engagement with current discourse surrounding settler colonialism and their use of the arts to disrupt conceptualization of the Canadian state as inclusive and benevolent.

[Arctic and Northern Studies Program] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2014.

Professor from the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, presents case study based on teaching a third-year course titled "Contemporary Aboriginal Art and Colonialism".

In this conference extract the author explores the different ways that his Haudenosaunee ancestors would have represented their experiences with and perceptions of the first Europeans to arrive in what is now North America.