Clothing & Regalia

Looks into the lives of the Berdache or gender-mixed Indigenous leaders We'wha and Klah and how their gender status provided them with a variety of unique skills, insights, and interaction with the rest of American society.

Stephen Augustine presents explanation of the treaty process for different treaties and negotiation for survival. Duration: 2:33:38.

Group of Aboriginal people in traditional clothing posing in front of teepees.

Discusses problems associated with attempting to eliminate offensive names and stereotypical images due to cultural blindness.

Short story follows narrator as he tries to raise money to retrieve his grandmother's powwow regalia from a pawn shop. Questions what it means to give and receive, and what obligations we have to those we give to and/or serve.

Looks at Native American imagery and fashion.

Looks at the reasons the author researches Cheyenne moccasins and questions to ask when identifying a moccasin.

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

Book review of: Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians by Sophie White. Review located by scrolling to page 194.

Metis boy Wilfred McKay, standing in a lake. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

Wilfred Tootoosis in war paint and feathers at Cut Knife Battlefield.

Historical note:

Taken for the Western Producer magazine, July 21, 1960.

Mrs. Trudeau talks about being adopted and the schooling she received as a child. Mr. Trudeau talks about growing up on the farm, and later working in the lumber and fishing industries. Interpreter : Ernest Debassigae ; transcriber : Joanne Greenwood.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1991.

Used as costume accents or sun shades, to emphasize the rhythm of the drum or to point in a direction as dancers turn.

An image of an Aboriginal man standing alone. He is dressed in ceremonial clothing and holds a fan of feathers. There is a grouping of tipis in the distant background. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process. The postcard is addressed to Miss Dell Ashdown, Muskoka, Ontario.

Site links to more than 1,000 examples of Wisconsin's material heritage from more than 50 historic sites, museums and private individuals. Includes collection of bandolier bags from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

Slide appears to be part of a series about Canada's North. On slide: "FORT CHURCHILL"

Image of woman leading horse-drawn travois. An infant on its side is fastened to the travois. Inscription on back reads: "The Indian didn't invent a wheel. (?) takes her papoose with her."

A photograph of nine Kinsmen with two Native women dressed in traditional attire on April 26, 1950. First of series B 4014-19.

Historical note:

Describes the regalia and the origin of the dance.

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

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

Comments on the designs and beadwork of powwow dancers in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.

Follows history of the blanket to North America and the use of the Hudson's Bay Company point blanket by Canadian artist Sonny Assu.

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

Discusses repatriation request by the Pine Ridge Wounded Knee Survivors Association for articles housed at the Art Gallery and Museum in Kelvingrove, Glasgow. Articles included a necklace, moccasins, Sioux cradle and Ghost Shirt.

Looks at moccasins, stone-headed war club, canes and other articles made to sell at Cannon Ball.

General information about protocol, rules for judging, dancers and dances, songs, drumming, regalia, etc. Suitable for use in classroom.

Image of young indigenous people dancing at Trappers convention, Prince Albert.

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 13 (p. [343]-469).