Arts & Culture

Author examines the interdependent nature of colonial and capitalist structures and their collaborative resistance to decolonizing efforts. Explores two different sites in which Indigenous businesses are working to engage in the market while maintaining business practices rooted Indigenous values and principles. Asks how these economic practices can support the dismantling of colonial-capitalist economic institutions.

Discusses various uses of art today and the possibilities for copyright laws to accommodate this artform.

Discusses five features of the Act: the establishment of a Export Control List, provision for loans and grants to institutions to purchase items that cannot be exported, establishment of a review board dealing with applications for export permits and certification of property for income tax purposes, establish income tax incentives for donation or sales of objects to designated institutions, and procedures for recovery of property which has been illegally exported.

Book review of: Canadian Aboriginal Art and Spirituality by John W. Friesen, Virginia Lyons Friesen. Artwork by David J. Friesen. To access this review, scroll to page 114.

Looks at how the intellectual concept of cultural landscapes has been applied in Canada, particularly in places important to Aboriginal peoples. Chapter 13 from Managing Cultural Landscapes edited by Ken Taylor and Jane Lennon.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1991.

File containing designs and suggestions for a new Canadian flag, specifically one with an idea for using yellow to represent Indigenous peoples.

Article by a clergyman who lived "amongst the Indians of Canada." G.H. Raley calls for the formation of a federal government-sponsored Canadian Indian handicraft organization to sell Aboriginal handicrafts and providing self-supporting industries in Aboriginal communities. Article from the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, London, England.

Brings together graphic works with recollections of Elders concerning traditional skills, stories and legends, culture and clothing.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2004.

Two different angles of carvings. On information card: Carvings executed by Pierre Karliig for the Acquatare Oil Co. in Calgary Alta. Picture taken at the Craft Shop in Rankin Inlet.

Website contains information on the destruction of Aboriginal heritage trees by industrial logging and it impact on First Nations identity and culture. Includes links to resources on totem poles and European trees,and related stories, digital media, and galleries.

Autobiographical sketch of the Métis freelance contemporary art curator and writer from rural Manitoba.

Suggests that developments and changes in Inuit art may occur as a result of Nunavut entering confederation. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 31.

Looks at an artists ledgerbook art that is geared towards keeping Cheyenne life and identity alive.

Program relating to art work used in the newly-renamed The Centre at Circle and Eighth in Saskatoon, formerly the Circle Park and Wildwood malls. Aboriginal artists and themes are featured; project coordinator is Cecilia Cote.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2011.

Extract from the eighth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Examines the potential obstacles encountered by Aboriginal society when attempts are made to repatriate cultural objects from museums.

Discusses the tensions that exist when attempting to critique Aboriginal art in Western terms.

Book review of: Challenging Traditions by Ian M. Thom. Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 132.

Chronicles the changes of unique forms of dress using seven periods within the study time frame, including paintings up to 1857 and after that, photographs.

Review Essay which examines the ways that three different titles, Naamiwan’s Drum: the Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinabe Artefacts (Maureen Matthews), The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures (National Museum of the American Indian), and Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (Chip Colwell) describe, interpret and relate to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).

Book reviews of: The Changing Presentation of the American Indian edited by W. Richard West, a collection of symposium papers. Privileging the Past by Judith Ostrowitz.

Author relates her experiences with dance and connection to her ancestors.

Chapter IX from "The Story of Saskatchewan and its People." The chapter is broken into the following subsections: "About the Indian"; "Old Indian Policy", "Educating the Indian"; "Work of the Department" ; "The Noble Red Man"; "The Indian Character"; "Is the Indian Cruel?"; "An Indian Boy's Work"; "Indian Hospitality". Six images accompany the text.

Excerpt from The Story of Saskatchewan and its People, vol. 1

Volume 1, Chapter XII from "The Story of Saskatchewan and its People." The chapter is entitled "In the Beginning: A Legend of the Blackfeet". The chapter is broken into several versions of Blackfoot legends as interpreted by Hawkes. The subsections are entitled: "Six Se-Ka-Quon: Another Legend of the Blackfeet Nation", "The 'Sou-Ke-Tap-Pi'", "The Legend of the Big Stone" and "Incident at 'Big Bear's' Trail for High Treason".

Chapter XII from "The Story of Saskatchewan and its People." The chapter is entitled "The Tragedy of 'Almighty Voice'" and descibes Hawkes' version of the incident between ALmighty Voice and Colebrooke in October, 1895. The last section of the chapter entitled "Inside Light on Tragedy" provides further information, via a statement made by Almighty Voice's father Sounding Sky.

Article engages with the visual art of two different Indigenous women artists, Sarah Sense and Shan Goshorn, and the work it does to challenge colonial narratives and representations of Indigeneity, and Indigenous women by addressing "chasms of misunderstanding and collisions of cultural representation."

Author describes her experience vising the Center in 2015 as part a of class trip.

Canadian Museum of Civilization exhibition includes work by Tsimshian artist Roy Henry Vickers of British Columbia and Inuit printmaker Pudlo Pudlat of Cape Dorset.

Canadian Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1998.

Article studies the traditional clothing in the Arctic region of Chukotka.

Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2010.

Virtual exhibition features regalia from the United States, Canada and South America accompanied with information on the culture that produced it.

Reviews the exhibition RESERVE(d) by Caroline Monnet and Kevin Lee Burton mounted at the Urban Shaman Gallery.

Discusses the implications of the proliferation of consumer goods which carry cultural symbols.

Art and Design Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Michigan, 2009.

Looks at a touring exhibition designed to share Indigenous art with the people of Saskatchewan. Article located by scrolling to page 3.

Catalogue produced to accompany exhibition of the same name. Includes essays and brief biographies of contributors.

Looks at the social and cultural impacts of Aboriginal cultural industries and the challenges and opportunities created for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

"Exploration of art, culture and history through the ceramic and textile objects of the ancient and contemporary peoples of" Mexico, Central and South America. Information provided about the people and physical landscape.

Five panelists discuss their artistic practice and how their culture influences their work. Duration: 1:31:47.