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Coast Salish Gambling Music

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wendy B. Stuart
Canadian Journal for Traditional Music , vol. 2, 1974, p. [?]
Looks at a certain style in the music and games in British Columbia and Washington.
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Coast Salish Textiles: From ‘Stilled Fingers’ to Spinning an Identity

Alternate Title
Textile Society of America 12th Biennial Symposium, 2010
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings; paper 59
Textiles and Settlement: From the Plains Space to Cyber Space
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eileen Wheeler
Discusses the weaving revival which has taken place among Musqueam and Stó:lo women.
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Collecting Native America, 1870-1960

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alfred Young Man
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1, Winter, 2002, pp. 66-67
Book review of: Collecting Native America, 1870-1960 edited by Shepard Krech III and Barbara A. Hail.
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Commercialization and Marketing of Women’s Indigenous Knowledge Products: A Case Study of Maasai Body Ornamental Products in Arusha, Tanzania

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jehovaness Aikaeli
Beatrice Kalinda Mkenda
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 5, June 2019, pp. 41-75
Discusses the traditional knowledge and skills used by Maasai women in their creation of accessories and other handcrafted goods; explores how these skills might be translated into income in both domestic and tourist markets.
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The Commission, the Community, and the Cree Woman in the Attic: Georgina Lightning's Older Than America in Canada's Culture of Redress

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
K. L. Killebrew
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 136-169
Film criticism which discusses Lightning’s movie as an act of resistance to colonial backlash to reconciliation, and to settler narratives regarding Indian Residential Schools.
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Commodifying Sámi Culture in an Indigenous Tourism Site

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Kelly-Holmes
Sari Pietikäinen
Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol. 18, no. 4, Special Issue: Sociolinguisitics and Tourism , September 2014, pp. 518-538
Examines the problem of providing an authentic, reliable and repeatable tourism experience on a reindeer farm due to language barriers. Suggests the use of scripted narratives as a solution.
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Composite Indigenous Genre Cheyenne Ledger Art as Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denise Low
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 83-104
Explains how Cheyenne text-images including glyphs, pictographs, winter counts, and ledger books helped sustain a unique literature form and present a legitimate alternative to European defined literacy. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.
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Congress Examines Role of Arts Within Aboriginal Community

Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 5, August 2007, p. 25

Overview of Gordon Tootoosis and Maria Campbell's speeches at the 2007 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The two speakers talked about the importance of theatre in Aboriginal culture and the hurdles they faced in their careers.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.25.

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Conjuring Marks: Furthering Indigenous Empowerment through Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Heath Justice
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 3-11
Editorial article by the guest editor of the “Empowerment Through Literature” special issue addresses key themes and concerns of the articles contained therein.
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Contemplating Native American Art

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maja Tarateta
Art Business News, vol. 28, no. 3, March 2001, pp. 136-[?]
Discussion of the legal and cultural challenges involved in the marketing of Native American art.
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Contemporary American Indian Art: Three Portraits of Native Artists without Masks

Alternate Title
Art Contemporain Amérindien: Trois Portraits d'Artistes Sans Masque
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Selbach
Revue LISA/LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 47-63
Divides artists into three categories: those who produce traditional works, those who make reference to contemporary political issues, and a third group who want to appeal to a broader audience and resist stereotypes.
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Contemporary Canadian Aboriginal Art: Storyworking in the Public Sphere

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Troy Patenaude
Discusses how the work of artists such as Norval Morrisseau, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Heather Shillinglaw, and Bill Reid communicate with and educate their audiences. Chapter fifteen from How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics edited by David Taras and Christopher Wadell.
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Contemporary Native Art II: A Bibliography

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lawrence Abbott
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 98-103
Bibliography of Indigenous artwork and critical engagement.
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Contentious Art: Disruption and Decolonial Aesthetics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Luam Kidane
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 189-192
Discussion on art connects creativity to political processes and disrupted borders.
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Continuity and Creativity in Iroquois Beadwork

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Morgan Perkins
American Anthropologist, vol. 106, no. 3, New Series, September 2004, pp. 595-599
Review essay of an exhibition, Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life, that examines the artistic, cultural and political significance of beadwork in both traditional and contemporary Iroquois culture.
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Continuity of Form and Function in the Art of the Eastern Woodlands

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amelia M. Trevelyan
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 1989, pp. 187-203
Compares contemporary Woodland Indian fine arts with the prehistoric artistic traditions of the Eastern Woodland region, suggesting notable similarities of subject and form, possibly due to the central role of art in the cultural revitalization of both periods.
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A Conversation with Ki-ke-in

Alternate Title
Nuu-Chah-Nulth Voices, History, Objects & Journeys
Nuu-Chah-Nulth Voices, History, Objects and Journeys
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Ki-ke-in
Interview with prominent artist, writer, singer and dancer. Excerpt from Nuu-Chah-Nulth Voices, History, Objects & Journeys edited by Alan L. Hoover.
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Cooking Fish Upwanask Style

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Lois Dalby (photographer)
A set of 19 photos of Napthelie McKenzie showing how a fish can be cooked upwanask style over an open fire, without a frying pan, using sticks to hold it. Birchbark can serve as a plate in the bush.
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Cradle Boards for Babies

Alternate Title
Hodinohso:ni Art Lesson ; no. 7
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Rick Hill]
[Roxanne Sky]

Discusses various examples of Mohawk and Seneca boards and the techniques used to create them.

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Craft Competition: National Pow Wow 16

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Kostelnik
Whispering Wind, vol. 42, no. 5, Issue 291, May 2014, p. 24
Author and judge for the National Craft Competition highlights the importance of Native American craftwork as a link to the past as well as its use in ceremonies and dress.
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Crazy Horse Rides Again

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tony Perrottet
Smithsonian, vol. 37, no. 2, May 2006, p. 82
Looks at the conflict regarding the monument of Crazy Horse. The Indian organization Defenders of the Black Hills argue the monument is an environmental and spiritual violation.
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