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Beyond Inclusion: Canadian and Indigenous Sovereignties in Mainstream Museums

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caitlin Gordon-Walker
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 129-149
Description
Discusses complicated and shifting relationships between museums and Indigenous peoples, highlights the contradictory roles museums play, and looks at exhibitions in public galleries of Royal British Columbia Museum, Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Vancouver which show the changing nature of the relationship.
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Beyond Invisibility: A REDress Collaboration to Raise Awareness of the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natalie Marie Lesco
Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, vol. 8, no. 2, 2018, pp. 68-85
Description
Uses a participatory-action research model (PAR) to explore the ideas instilled by and the mobilizing potential of the REDress project—a grassroots, collaborative, community art exhibit intended to bring awareness to the issue of MMIW—at St. Francis Xavier University. Researcher partners with StFX Aboriginal Student’s Society.
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Beyond the Woodlands: Four Manitoulin Painters Speak Their Minds

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Theresa S. Smith
Blake Debassige
Shirley Cheechoo
James Simon Mishibinijima
Leland Bell
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter-Spring, January 1, 1994, pp. 1-[?]
Description
Often dismissed by art critics, artists of the "Woodland School" challenge misconceptions about their work and share insights on their artistic style.
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Bill Holm-Publications

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art
Description
Lists books, films, articles, book reviews and unpublished papers. Current as of 2001.
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Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Maria Tippett
BC Studies, no. 175, Autumn, 2012, pp. 113-114
Description
Book review of: Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe edited by Martine J. Reid. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 113.
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Birch Bark Biting A Dying Indian Art

Articles » General
Description
Published in Denosa by DNS in April of 1981, written by Graham Guest. -p01: Pictures of Angelique Merasty and her husband, and Angelique biting birch bark. -p02: Example of birch bark biting.
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Black Hawk's "An Autobiography": The Production and Use of an "Indian" Voice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Wallace
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 481-494
Description
Literary criticism article which examines Black Hawk: An Autobiography and argues that in addition to its value as a historical text, it should also be considered as an act of literary resistance against the narratives imposed on Indigenous peoples by mainstream society.
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Blackfish

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Emily Johnson
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1-2, November 28, 2016, pp. 40-42
Description
A short piece of poetic prose that discusses the teachings of the “blackfish.”
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Blue Quills First Nations College

Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Website for an Indigenous non-profit educational institution that promotes a sense of pride in Indigenous heritage, traditional knowledge and practices.
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Book Review

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robin Ridington
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 363-365
Description
Book review of: The Hako: Song, Pipe and Unity in a Pawnee Calumet Ceremony by Alice C. Fletcher.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Amelia M. Trevelyan
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 163-167
Description
Book review of: Navajo Pictorial Weaving: 1880-1950: Folk Art Images of Native Americans by Tyrone Campbell, Joel Kopp and Kate Copp.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David J. Norton
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 170-173
Description
Book review of: Gin Das Winan: Documenting Aboriginal History in Ontario by The Champlain Society.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Furniss
Barry McGrory
Jeremy Hull
E. Paul Morrissy
Rosanne Gasse
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 1990, pp. 307-341
Description
Book reviews of 15 books: Metaphors of Interpretation: Essays in Honour of W.E.H. Stanner edited by Diane E. Barwick, Jeremy Beckett and Marie Reay. Convertir Les Fils de Cain, Jesuites et Amerindiens Nomades en Nouvelle-France by Alain Beaulieu. The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium edited by Kenneth Coates. Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage by Brain W.
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[Book Reviews]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nancy-Lou Patterson
Native Studies Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Native Peoples, Museums, and Heritage Resource Management, 1987, pp. 139-144
Description
Review of: The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First People by Julia D. Harrison, co-ordinating curator, with Ted J. Brasser, Bernadette Driscoll, Ruth B. Phillips, Martine J. Reid, Judy Thompson, and Ruth Holmes Whitehead, editors.
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Bound for the Fair: Chief Joseph, Quanah Parker, and Geronimo and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James R. Swensen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 439-470
Description
Author examines several images contemporary to the 1904 World’s Fair, discusses the way in which Indigenous people were portrayed as "spectacle, commodity and spoil of American conquest;" articulates ways that some Indigenous Leaders both corroborated these portrayals and subverted them.
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Bridging Cultural Divides

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Elsa Reid
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 18-19
Description
Discusses the design and artwork on an Aboriginal Health Banner that welcomes Indigenous communities to Hawkesbury District Health Service.
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Bridging Past and Present: A Study of Precontact Yup'ik Masks from the Nunalleq Site, Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna Mossolova
Rick Knecht
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 18-38
Description
Article uses archaeological, ethnographic, and oral history accounts to examine several masks and fragments recently recovered from the Nunalleq archeological site. Findings demonstrate strong pre-contact traditions of ceremonial mask making that continued post contact.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center / Whitney Gallery of Western Art - Poster. - 1987.

Archival » Archival Items
Description
Poster advertising the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, housed at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.

Historical note:

The Buffalo Bill Museum examines both the personal and public lives of W.F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) and seeks to tell his story in the context of the history and myth of the American West.
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Buffalo Bill's "Hotel in the Rockies" 1902-2002 - Poster.

Archival » Archival Items
Description
Poster advertising an exhibit at the Park County Historical Archives relating to the Irma Hotel, built in 1902 by Buffalo Bill Cody.

Historical note:

Buffalo Bill Cody helped found Cody, Wyoming in 1895, and established his TE Ranch in the area. In 1902, he built the Irma Hotel, which he called "just the sweetest hotel that ever was." Buffalo Bill maintained two suites and an office at the hotel for his personal use.
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Buffalo Boy: Then and Now

Alternate Title
INDIANacts: Aboriginal Performance Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ryan Rice
Carla Taunton
Description
Discusses how Adrian Stimson's anti-colonial, gender-bending persona is used to expose cultural and societal truths.
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[Buffalo hunt] - Perehudoff painting

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
W. Perehudoff
Description
Photograph of painting by W. Perehudoff hung at the Batoche Museum. Depicts man chasing down a buffalo on horseback.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie: Lyrics of the Land

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Fiona Muldrew
Suzanne McCloud
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Herizons, vol. 7, no. 2, Summer, 1993, pp. 30-32
Description
Interview with Buffy Sainte-Marie on her music and her life of promoting traditional Aboriginal values.
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[But Is It Art?]

Alternate Title
ReVision Quest ; July 27, 2009
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Darrell Dennis
KC Adams
Jenny Western
Alex Janvier
Joan Cardinal-Schubert
Steve Loft
Description
Discusses historical and contemporary Aboriginal art. Duration 27:31.
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