Arts & Culture

Group of slides showing the murals of Duck Lake; 1. Crossing the Saskatchewan; 2. The Carlton Trail; 3. The Signing of Treaty #6; 4. The Signing of Treaty #6 mural and lamp post; 5. Major Players in the 1885 Uprising; 6. Almighty Voice; 7. Duck Lake road sign.

Presents a short film on Aboriginal artist Jerry Whitehead.

Questions about art and whether it should be referred to in the western sense or whether art is the repository and communicator of those with culturally specific knowledge.

Brief description and four pictures. Site is from Timeless Treasures: The Story of Dolls in Canada

Showcases documentary films for, by, and about First Nations people in DVD format.

Looks at data from community-based projects involving the Battleford Agency Tribal Chiefs First Nations and their youth.

A set of 36 photographs of Lydia and Napthelie McKenzie and their family catching, preparing, and cooking fish.

File contains a design of a Canadian flag which includes arrows to represent indigenous peoples.

Explores the evolution in clothing decoration and handiwork due to cultural and historical experiences.

Commentary on an exhibition mounted at the Manitoba Museum of Man, July 1-October 3, 1993.

[English?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 1998.

Depicts the life of Dr. Dale Auger, winner of the Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year award in 2006 and the 2007 R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.26.

Speaker discusses the program of preservation and conservation undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the New Deal era. Also features screening of newsreel, Timber and Totem Poles by the Forest Service. Duration: 45:34.

Describes the events leading up to and after the shooting of the partially deaf artist John T. Williams by Officer Ian Birk of the Seattle Police Department in 2010.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2000.

Includes some photographs, illustrations and details of belts.

Builds on Linda Tuhiwai Smith's short essay "Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects," and in acknowledgement of the essay and its 20th anniversary offers four more projects specific to Native American Humanities: • Continuing • Reknowing • Sociologizing • Valuing

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Pictographs of the North American Indians by Garrick Mallery Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos by William H. Holmes Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley by William H. Holmes Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art by William H. Holmes A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture-Growth by Frank Hamilton Cushing

Looks at an extraordinary artist, Bill Reid, and his many contributions to First Nations culture.

John Frazer's Museum in Beauval. Page one: pictures of a ceremonial chair, herb grinder and John Frazer with axe heads. Page two: pictures of outboard motors, learning wood carving, museum visitors, two wheel cart.

See Part 3: "Knowledge Sovereignty: Indigenous Resistance and Resiliencies".

A poster of Gabriel Dumont with the slogan "Free the North," and the description "Gabriel Dumont Armed" upon it.

Historical note:

Original photograph from the Public Archives of Canada. Cited as a CUS Poster, 197-. [Possibly a political poster produced by the Canadian Union of Students].

Argues that in the future culture will be a means of differentiating peoples, rather than race and that "authentic" cultural artifacts will become valuable commodities.

Discusses the messages conveyed by Native American Indian youth against assimilation, discrimination and their hopes for cultural equity.

Argues that the appropriation of the totems for use as one of the symbols for the Canadian nation state masks the reality of the Aboriginal-settler relationship.

Discusses role the noted carver and restorer of totem poles played in the in the acquisition of objects for its collection at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1999.

Article examines the activities of Sami musicians and their recordings from the second half of the 20th century.

Video of speech given by professor from the University of Victoria's Indigenous Governance Program. He argues that Aboriginals must regain their authentic cultural identity in order to truly decolonize themselves. Duration: 01:02:12.

Program booklet of a primarily Ontario native hand crafts exhibition in Toronto, ON. Short articles on the various aspects of hand crafts precede lists of exhibitors and their works. Hand crafts include basketry, beadwork, clothing, headdresses, dolls, footwear, snowshoes, pipes and rattles.

Arts and Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1998.

Excerpt from the book-length poem Swift Cinder which examines memory and the act of memory making through the metaphor of collision.

Author uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the processes of cultural hybridization and resistance and their presence in film, music, and art. Discusses how these factors can combine to preserve and revitalize traditional knowledges and cultures in the contemporary globalized world.

Argues that the transformation of a consumer good into Northwest Coast style masks is a commentary on both the exploitation of sweatshop workers and the commodification of First Nations' symbols.

Author recalls his introduction to Sámi culture and music starting in 1974 in northern Sweden.

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, 1987.

Introduction to a special themed issue on the connections and relationships between art, activism, resurgence, and resistance and how Indigenous artistic creation is connected to history, land, and community.

Honors Thesis (B.?.)--Ball State University, 1993.

Looks into the question of whether profits from Native American gaming helped to establish or expand Native American museums and cultural centers as venues for cultural self-representation. Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013. Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.

Site contains links to Indigenous historical and contemporary material drawn from the Canadian Museum of Civilization's artifact and archival collections including thousands of photographs.

Looks at the drum dance by the Netsilik and Caribou Inuit on Baffin Island in the community of Arviat.

Correspondence between Mrs. A. Warner and John Diefenbaker regarding Diefenbaker's remarks at the opening ceremonies at Inuvik and regarding a sculpture there.

Telegram from C.W. Watt of the PQ Inuit Association noting refusal of residents to vote in October 11th election until given proper representation in the House of Commons. Also pg. 26 of a brochure by the French government describing an exhibition in that country of Canadian Inuit art.

Discusses the work of artists who express Aboriginal identity in unconventional ways.

Discusses the similarities between geometric patterns and symbols in Native American Indian artwork.

Looks at two different theological paradigms, one that portrays the tragedy of the Aboriginal peoples; the other that offers a more accurate representations of the plight of Native peoples and celebrates a vibrant Native spirituality.

Literary criticism article in which the author explores Vizenor’s use of trickster tropes and transnational narrative to explore different expressions of Indigenous identity and how it adapts to and is affected by sites solidarity and sovereignty.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--National University of Ireland, Galway, 2013.

Author discusses the ways ghost are a part of the narrative in the films of Wanuri Kahiu and Georgina Lightning in cultural context; examines the variable roles that ghost can play (sacred ancestor – malevolent trickster) and the way that characters respond to their presence and actions.