Arts & Culture

Discusses the evolution of Yup'ik Eskimo objects into cultural and political icons in Alaskan society.

Artist discusses his use of natural plants, minerals and insects to preserve Zapotec culture and weaving traditions.

Literary criticism article which examines the ways that contemporary queer and Two-Spirit authors are creating a cultural resurgence and decolonizing Indigenous sexualities.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1991.

First Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2002.

Using contemporary Huron examples, reviews Native American art history practises in terms of the "new art history" which rejects the "concept of linear evolution culminating with western European art and the equation of artistic with cultural style."

Author examines three different tenets of colonial thought, “that some persons are things, that matter is inert, and that some humans are autonomous of an ecological matrix,” through the lens of art-based projects that responded to the Guatemalan counter-insurgency war (1960—1996).

Provides an overview of the tribal arts auction market and discusses the series of processes for the valuation and sale of tribal art objects.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2002.

A re-evaluation of Jimmie Durham's work, taking into account the artist's fraudulent claims to Cherokee ancestry and discussion of the implications for scholars, art critics, collectors, and viewers of his works.

Discusses the anti-blackness within Indigenous communities and how confederate monuments are symbols of the Cherokee and Chickasaws own long history of racial discrimination against African Americans.

Looks at Sámi yoik poetry.

Looks at miniatures as toys and offerings in the context of life and death, and how changing scales are recurrent operations in Inuit cosmology.

Virtual exhibition features portrayals of traditional cultures of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, Haida, Nuxalk, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Salish peoples.

Study shows that non-Inuit evaluations of Inuit art are inconsistent as opposed to Inuit evaluations which are more consistent. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 30.

Report details policy recommendations which the Calgary City Council could implement in order to engage the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Calls to Action

Looks at Native American imagery and fashion.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999.

Article studies the effect on non-Indigenous music on the contemporary musical atmosphere at the Blood Reserve, southwest of Lethbridge, Alberta.

Digital Futures Thesis (M.F.A.)--Ontario College of Art and Design University, 2019.

Literary criticism article which offers a close and critical reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” using an English translation if the text “Navajo Nightway” as a lens through which the author examines the aesthetics and worldview of Whitman’s work.

Discusses the differences in the Australian fine art auction market between pricing method and repeat sales method .

Book review of: Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown.

Comments on representation, appropriation and profit from Native American art and design.

Program of exhibition of birch bark bitings made by Angelique Merasty of Beaver Lake, Manitoba. Includes information and a bibliography on birch bark biting.

Historical note:

Overview of American painter George Catlin's London exhibition as a mission to inform the English of the doomed Indian culture.

Discusses how Emily Carr confronts Aboriginal cultural change and challenges the authority of Native traditions in her work.

Replication of these wooden masks, together with the continued carving and use of False Faces, has contributed to the survival and stability of the Iroquois.

Brief description of William Barak's life and leadership at the Coranderrk settlement and his efforts to preserve aspects of Aboriginal tradition in his art.

Music Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego.

A set of 44 photos of a caribou project at Wollaston Lake that involved students in preparing and cooking caribou meat, making dry meat, drying the hides, and taking part in follow-up activities in the classroom.

Poem and subsequent interview with the Muscogee Creek writer.

Four women from across Canada who are artists, scholars, activists discuss topics such as racism, leadership, contemporary life, culture, popular misconceptions about Aboriginal peoples, and cross cultural relations. Duration: 1:22:38.

Describes the regalia and the origin of the dance.

Describes three dance styles and the elaborately decorated regalia worn for dancing.

Book review of: Women's Work Women's Art by Judy Thompson.

Article uses the Work 2 Give program—which gives incarcerated men the opportunity to create goods and harvest for the Tŝilhqot’in First Nation—as a case study to examine the “healing potential of the arts and therapeutic craft in BC prisons.”

Reports on the the Nakai Theatre company based in Whitehorse, its plays, and the challenges it faces, including lack of actors and space.

Discusses films produced by Rolf de Heer: Ten Canoes and The Balanda and the Bark Canoes.

Social Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of St. Andrews, 2014.

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

Linguistics and Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2013.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2007.

Discusses the authentic representations of Indigenous peoples and cultures in the film The Revenant and contrasts them to common cinematic stereotypes.