Art & Colonization

An analysis of the cultural values and perspectives manifested within the sculpture program in Vienna, Austria during the 1870s.

Authors attempt to justify delays in the repatriation of human remains to the Indigenous Nations to which they belong, as mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) by arguing for the anthropological benefits of continued study of the remains.

Author's viewpoint on the relationship between museums and Aboriginal cultures and artifacts. (Originally published in CJNS 14(1) : 147-156 (1994))

Architecture Thesis (M.Sc.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019.

Art Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 1998.

Social Sciences Thesis (M.A.)--University of Denver, 2011.

Discusses problematic methodological approaches to Aboriginal art that have become a standard for use by historians and anthropologists and suggests how to write about art in the future.

The author uses Out of the Depths, Isabel Knockwood’s autobiography about her time in Indian Residential School, to discuss English alphabet writing as a colonizing tool and as consider different ways that Indigenous peoples have appropriated English writing as a form of cultural survivance.