Arts & Culture
Storytellers and Their Listener-Readers in Silko's "Storytelling" and Storyteller
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 333-357
Description
Literary criticism article that draws on reader response theory to explore oral tradition and orality in written texts, considers the implications for analysis of Indigenous texts and specifically Silko’s Storyteller.
Storytelling and Strength: Voices from Indigenous Theatre in Canada
Alternate Title
Big Thinking Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Margo Kane
Sylvia Cloutier
Corey Payette
Description
Panelists discuss theatre as an expression of identity and cultural practice, how personal experience is interwoven in their projects, and how their work manifests their connections to their homelands and ancestral knowledges.
Sucker River Old Things Project
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Lois Dalby
Description
A set of 77 photographs taken in the small community of Sucker River, north of La Ronge, in 1975-76. The community mounted a project to make as many "old things" as the 14 participants in the project could remember from the old days. Many of the objects were made as models, as time and materials did not allow for full-size items.
Sydney as an Indigenous Place: "Goanna Walking" Brings People Together
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jo Rey
Neil Harrison
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 81-89
Description
Discusses two projects: Country Tracking Voices, which looks at seven women's ways of relating to place, people, and perspectives through sharing stories; and Honouring Country and Community which involved Indigenous and non-Indigenous pre-service teachers painting three murals on the Macquirie University campus.
Tales That Dead Men Tell - J.E. Pearce.
Documents & Presentations
Description
From foreword: "This paper was written for the purpose of aiding in the proper orientation of archaeology among the other social sciences and in the world of learning generally. It is meant for the intelligent lay reader rather than for the professional archaeologist."
Taonsayontenhroseri:ye’ne: The Power of Art in Indigenous Research with Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kawennakon Bonnie Whitlow
Vanessa Oliver
Kim Anderson
Kari Brozowski ... [et al.]
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 180-189
Description
Describes an arts based research project which uses graffiti art to make Haudenosaunee symbols and images accessible and relevant for Indigenous youth. Discusses cultural bridging and exchange, decolonization, identity, cultural values, and Indigenous solidarity.
"Tastily Bound With Ribands": Ribbon-bordered Dress of the Great Lakes Indians, 1735-1839
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel K. Pannabecker
Clothing & Textiles Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, September 1996, pp. 267-275
Description
Explores the historical and cultural significance of silk ribbon and its creative and innovative use by the Great Lakes Indian women.
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn About Community & Land Stewardship through the Art of Pitseolak Ashoona
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Art Canada Institute
Description
Pitseolak Ashoona is a renowned Inuk artist from Nunavut.
Designed to complement the book Pitseolak Ashoona: Life and Work.
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn about Land & Indigenous Worldviews through the Art of Norval Morrisseau
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Art Canada Institute
Description
Includes biography, discussion of artist's style and techniques learning activities, and image file. Designed to complement Norval Morrisseau: Life and Work by Carmen Robertson.
Technology Becomes the Object: The Use of Electronic Media at the National Museum of the American Indian
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwyneira Isaac
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 13, no. 3, November 2008, pp. 287-310
Description
Discusses the way museums use media technology and Native American objects to educate and challenge the museum experience.
Telling Anishinaabe Women's Art: Piecing Together: No Stranger in the House
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Olsen Williams
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
Description
1995 Margaret Laurence lecture at Trent University by the artist and quilt maker Alice Olsen Williams. The version given here has been adapted, revised and edited.
Telling Anishinaabe women's art: Piecing Together: No Stranger in the House [Speech by Alice Olsen Williams, Margaret Laurence Lecture at Trent University]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Olsen Williams
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
Description
Transcript of speech give by quilter Alice Olsen Williams relating her background, inspirations, and spiritual beliefs.
Telling Their Own Stories: Indigenous Film as Critical Identity Discourse
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Lempert
Applied Anthropologist, vol. 32, no. 1, 2012, pp. 23-33
Description
Looks at different interpretations of similar subject matter in Dustinn Craig's film, 4 Wheel War Pony and ethnographic film Trobriand Cricket by anthropologist Jerry Leach.
Terra "Cognita": The Land We Know
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Karen Williamson
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter, 2002, pp. 48-51
Description
Curator discusses themes in the Inuit component of larger exhibition entitled (In)Cognita, The Arctic Collection.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 48.