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Mrs. Angela Solomon, birch bark baskets

Images » Photographs
Description
From caption: "Mrs. Angela Solomon, Patuanak, 75 year old Chipewyan Indian, works on birch bark baskets. Art was learned from her mother. Also makes moccasins decorated with porcupine quills, almost a lost art amongst the Indians. July, 1961"
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A Museum For The Americas

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ian S. McIntosh
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 4, Women the World Must Hear, Winter, 2004
Description
Comments on the opening of the first United States national museum in Washington, D.C. that is devoted solely to Native Americans.
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The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Alternate Title
MoCNA
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Institute of American Indian Arts
Description
Website includes the most progressive work of contemporary Native artists, a multi-media website, and links to news and events.
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Museums After Modernity

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert Houle
Description
Discusses the changes that have taken place in the context of cultural conflicts in the wake of industrial and political revolutions.
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Nametoo: Evidence That He/She Is/Was Present

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Celeste Pedri-Spade
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 73-100
Description
Examines the role and use of Indigenous photography in relationship to the Anishinabe way of being, seeing, listening and hearing.
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National Aboriginal Day 2010

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Presents various individual's perspectives on what National Aboriginal Day means to them.
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Native American Art

Alternate Title
[Portland Art Museum Online Collections]
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Portland Art Museum
Description
Website looks at traditional and contemporary Native American art collection at the Portland Art Museum Online.
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Native American Art in the Postmodern Era

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kay WalkingStick
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn, 1992, pp. 15-17
Description
Author looks at the reasons for lack of critical review of contemporary Indigenous artwork.
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Native American Artists and the Postmodern Cultural Divide

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Traugott
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn, 1992, pp. 36-43
Description
Author looks at how contemporary artists have incorporated aspects of the dominant culture into their works and transformed such elements to suit their purposes.
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Native American Dolls

Alternate Title
Smithsonian in Your Classroom
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Genevieve Marie Simermeyer
Lynn-Steven Engelke
Smithsonian in Your Classroom, Fall, 2004, pp. 1-28
Description

Lesson plan for elementary school students which looks at Native American dolls, how they are made and the cultures they represent.

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Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Julie Pearson-Little Thunder
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 161-162
Description
Book review of: Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective by Christy Stanlake.
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Native American Music and Dance

Alternate Title
Native America: Understanding the Past through Things
[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]
Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the the Yale National Initiative ; 2006, Volume IV
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Enetta Nelson Rose
Description

Unit focuses on the Choctaw and Coushatta, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and Illinois cultures.

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Native Drums

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Carleton University
Sumner Group
Description
Website committed to First Nations culture and music with games, images, interviews, articles and teacher resources.
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Native Drums Website Teacher Resource Kit "The Spirit of the Drum"

Alternate Title
Lesson 1: The Significanace of the Drum
Lesson 2: Interview with MorningStar River Singers
Lesson 3: Indigenous Music and Physics
Lesson 4: Connecting through Music
Lesson 5: Oral Traditions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Drums
Description

Other Modules: Lesson 2:  Interview with MorningStar River Singers; Lesson 3: Indigenous Music and Physics; Lesson 4: Connecting through Music; Lesson 5:  

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Native Narratives, Mystery Writing, and the Osage Oil Murders: Examining Mean Spirit and The Osage Rose

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Stoecklein
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 137-154
Description
Literary criticism piece which argues that Indigenous authors Linda Hogan and Tom Holm make use of the mystery fiction genre to present Indigenous narratives about the historic Osage oil murders, thereby allowing them a wide breadth of exposure.
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Native North American Art

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John W. Nunley
Janet Berlo
The Saint Louis Art Museum Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 1, New Series, Summer, 1991, pp. 1-47
Description
Discusses the environmental aspects influencing art in the following regions: Northwest Coast of Canada and Alaska, California, the Southwest, Plains and Eastern Woodlands.
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Native Pop: Bunky Echo-Hawk and Steven Paul Judd Subvert Star Wars

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Olena McLaughlin
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 30-52
Description
Author discusses the work of two Indigenous pop-artists and how they appropriate iconic mainstream imagery in order to subvert popular narratives and stereotypes in the Star Wars franchise and in the wider film industry.
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Navajo Sandpaintings: The Importance of Sex Roles in Craft Production

Alternate Title
Navajo Sand Paintings: The Importance of Sex Roles in Craft Production
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Parezo
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 125-148
Description
A look at the commercialization of art form and how the Navajo's flexible division of labor allowed for both men and women to participate in its productions for economic gain.
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NDN AXE/IONS: A Collaborative Essay

Alternate Title
INDIANacts: Aboriginal Performance Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dana Claxton
Tania Willard
Description
Overview of the material from the INDIANacts conference discussing various themes related to Aboriginal performance art.
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Negotiating Publicity and Persona: The Work of Native Actors in Studio Hollywood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacob Floyd
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 119-135
Description
Examines the content of studio publicity materials to discover traces of the labour and negotiation performed by Indigenous actors in the development and maintenance of their public personas while working in studio Hollywood. Author argues that actors were able to use their public personas to critique and influence onscreen representations of Indigenous people.
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Negotiating Tensions Betwixt Presence and Absence Amidst a Big Sadness: Cultural Reclamation, Reinvention, and Costume Design

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jill Carter
Erika A. Iserhoff
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 152, Fall, 2012, pp. 5-12
Description
Erika A. Iserhoff, who has been involved in productions such as The Only Good Indian, Omushkego Water Stories Project, and Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way discusses her artistic practice.
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Nehethow Pimatisiwin: Cree Way of Life

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sam Hardlotte
Robert Merasty
Description
The video, titled 'Nehethow Pimatisiwin: Cree Way of Life, Woodland Cree of Stanley Mission' (English Version), records a cultural camp at Stanley Mission during which various traditional activities are displayed. Camera, Script, and Post-Production are by Sam Hardlotte, and Narration is by Robert Merasty.

Historical note:

A video made in 1994 by Saskatchewan Education, Training & Employment, Northern Education Services Branch, in partnership with Pahkisimon Nuye?ah Library System, recording the Cree way of life.
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