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Playing Indian, between Idealization and Vilification: Seems You Have to Play Indian to be Indian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosy Simas
Sam Aros Mitchell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 133-140
Two Indigenous dancers who discuss the ongoing trend on non-Indigenous people "playing Indian" and how this trend reinforces stereotypes and could lead to the erasure of Indigenous culture over time.
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“Poetry [Film] = Anger × Imagination”: Intermediality, the Synthesis of Poetry and Film, and Cross- Cultural Belonging in Sherman Alexie’s The Business of Fancydancing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sabine N. Meyer
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 36-73
Cultural and artistic criticism piece; considers Alexie’s film as an adaptation and as a poetry film. Discusses artistic tools of referencing, trans media adaptation, and genre defiance; and considers the social and political statements made about identity formation, cross cultural relationships, and the centering of Indigenous narratives.
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The Poetry of Ralph Salisbury: Syntax as Vehicle for Conveying an Ethical Vision

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Eleanor Berry
Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 1, Ralph Salisbury, June 21, 2020, pp. 19-38
Literary criticism article which discusses the poet’s use of different parts of language and sentence structures to disrupt the flow of the poetry forcing the reader to attend to ethical issues discussed in the text.
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Policing Resource Extraction and Human Rights in The Land of the Dead

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shawaano Chad Uran
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 77-93
Film criticism article in which the author conducts a “Red Reading” of George Romero's 2005 zombie film, Land of the Dead using Frederick Jackson Turner's (1986) “Frontier Thesis” as lens.
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The Politics of Recognition

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert Houle
Keynote presentation from the 3rd Annual Aboriginal Curatorial Collective - Shaq'asthut / Gathering Place held in Vancouver, B.C. on November 7, 2008.
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Portraits of the Indians

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Glenbow Alberta Art Gallery
Catalogue of exhibition of works relating to portraits of Aboriginals at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, AB. Works of artists from around the world include Paul Kane, Frederick Verner, Karl Bodmer, Henry Cross, James Henderson and Nicholas de Grandmaison. Exhibition organized by Andrew Oko.
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Potlatch 67-67: Then and Now

Alternate Title
Potlatch 67-67 Lesson Series
Hiłt̕sist̕a'a̱m: The Copper Will Be Fixed
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kumugwe Cultural Society
Comox Valley Art Gallery

Catalogue for exhibition held to mark the 67th anniversary of the lifting of the Potlatch ban.

Related material: Lesson Plan.

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Potlatch and Powwow: Dynamics of Culture through Lives Lived Dancing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracy J. Andrews
Jon Olney
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 63-108
Looks at the Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch participants' perpspectives and Nez Perce dancers' roles and experience and finds commonalities amid the differences.
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The Potlatch Collection Repatriation

Alternate Title
Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gloria Cranmer Webster
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [137]-141
Description of negotiations involved in repatriating ceremonial objects seized under the anti-potlatch law and sold to the Royal Ontario Museum, the Museum of Man and the Museum of the American Indian.
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Pottery Making in a Changing World

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tessie Naranjo
Expedition, vol. 36, no. 1, March 1994, pp. 44-50
Looks at the connection between clay and people.
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Powwow Dancing and the Warrior Tradition

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nina de Shane
Studie Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, vol. 33, 1991, pp. 375-399
Examines the Plains Indian Snake Dance at the Woodlands Six Nations Powwow in Ontario through an ethnographic lens.
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[Powwow] - Sketches.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mac Hone
A series of 31 sketches of Indigenous [dancers] in various poses; done in ink on paper. Some titled sketches are: Iroquois; New Mexico; Canadian; Alaskan.

Historical note:

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Prairie Art Need More Exposure

Alternate Title
Prairie Art Need[s] More Exposure
Saskatchewan Sage: Special Section Providiing News From Saskatchewan: Prairie Art Need[s] More Exposure
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joe Couture
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 12, March 2008, p. 20

Argues that more needs to to done to encourage Aboriginal art in Saskatchewan.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.

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Pre-Occupied

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Heid Erdrich
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018
An experimental video/art poem and accompanying text that examines issues including land rights, resource extraction, environmentalism, the Occupy Movement and the activism of Indigenous peoples.
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"Primitivism", Anthropology, and the Category of "Primitive Art"

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Fred Myers
Traces changes in Western attitudes toward the classification of objects and the subsequent evolution of the terminology used to refer to them. Chapter 17 from Handbook of Material Culture edited by Chris Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer.
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Prints: "Our Neighbours in the Arctic"

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brock Silversides (photographer)
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Entitled: "Our Neighbours in the Arctic". Elderly man, two children with man and woman. Elderly man with pipe in his mouth holding a large knife.
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Prints: "Trading with the Esquimaux"

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brock Silversides (photographer)
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Entitled: "Trading with the Esquimaux". One non-Indigenous man holding a knife and looking at something. Man and woman stand beside him while a child looks on in the background.
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Protect and Promote Your Culture: A Practical Guide to Intellectual Property for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Begoña Venero Aguirre
Hai-Yuean Tualima
Discusses key features of intellectual property protection, copyright, patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, protection against unfair competition, and trade secrets. Includes examples from various countries around the world.
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Province Honors Women

Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 24, no. 8, November 2006, p. 16

For Women's History Month, ten Aboriginal women from British Columbia were honored for their contributions to the political and cultural lives of their communities.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.16.

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Provincial Archives of Alberta: "Indians at Home"

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Brock Silversides (photographer)
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Entitled: "Indians at Home". Family gathered around wagon. A long pole (approx 12-15ft high)holds up a jacket high in the air.
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