Dance

1979 La Ronge Winter Festival with competition results. Page one: pictures of buckskin parade entrants, contestants for 'Festival Queen', log sawing, and winter golf. Page two: pictures of log chopping, traditional dance, and flour packing competition. Page three: pictures of dogs from a sled team with children, and a dog sled race. Page four: pictures of snow mobile race, and hockey.

A conference discussing Indian and Christian creation myths, reflections on education and religion, comparison of Indian and non-Indian values, and the loss of traditional values and beliefs and the movement to recover them.

A conference discussing comparison of Indian and Christian religions and religious ceremonies, traditional songs and dances, and history of Europeans in North America from the Indian viewpoint.

A discussion of Cree funeral songs. Includes a story of a woman's vision of the afterlife.

Talks about the traditional teacher in the University setting ; proposal for friendship ceremony between Iroquois and Ojibway ; the Iroquois confederacy ; Kootenay plains initiative to return to traditional lifestyles ; reflections on past and future wars ; and the importance of elders in recovery of traditional values.

Analysis of the music of one of the most sacred public dance ceremonies held in San Juan Pueblo.

Image of 4 young men in traditional dress. Description on back reads: " This picture was taken in the summer of 1913 at an Indian Sun Dance held between Mr. Moise L'Heureaux's ranch and Cochin the usual place for holding Sun dances, at this particular dance the Indians were asking their gods for rain. Picture taken and finished by Mabel Devlin School teacher at St Hippolyte at the time. She is now Mrs. J.D. Paulhus of Vawn. Mr. Paul L'Heureux of Jack Fish who spoke Cree assisted in persuading these gentlemen to pose."

Aboriginal boys in traditional dress at Pion-Era preparing to dance. Saskatoon, SK, 1958.

Explores work taking place regarding identity within the context of contemporary hip hop subcultural in two neighbourhoods .

Follow world chapmpion hoop dancer, Dallas Arcand, as he discovers new and traditional elements of First Nation culture. Mix of animation and live action. Duration: 5:03.

Dance Thesis (M.A.)--The American University, 2006. Lakota Sioux Ghost Dance of 1890 is used as a case study concerning preservation and documentation of traditional dance regalia and material.

Includes material on the lease of land, restrictions to celebrate festivals, dances, or other ceremonies, and regulations on band membership.

Brief description of the Hamatsa ritual.

Video of interview with Adam Delaney discusses how dancing has changed. Part 1: Duration: 53:24 Part 2: Duration: 59:06

Consists of an interview where Adam Solway talks about being orphaned at 8 years and adopted by the Blackfoot Reserve, Alta; his attendance at a residential school; becoming a councillor and then chief of the reserve. He comments on the issues he had to deal with as well as providing comments on contemporary lifestyles and leadership.

Music Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1996.

Description of the customs, performances, and ceremonies associated with the death of a Sitka chief.

Results of a three year survey of Alaskan Eskimo and Indian musical systems concerning dance elements, symbolism, functions and accoutrements.

The significance of incorporating Native Alaskan music, dance and culture into the school system .

Discusses how the resurgence of the Stomp dance, a Native American religious and social dance, is keeping the Eastern Woodlands tribes alive and well. Access through table of contents.

Book review of: Aloha America by Adria L. Imada.

Book review of: American Indian Ballerinas by Lili Cockerille Livingston.

Bibliography listing books, video recordings, periodicals, theses and dissertations, and music.

Highlights Michael Greyeyes career in the ballet.

Interview with the respected storyteller and singer Antoine Lonesinger. Interview includes the Legend of Cut Knife Hill and stories of BlackRock and Chokecherry Wood.

Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.

Interview with Mr Lonesinger who tells stories of Indian agents both good and bad. He also tells of the Battle of the Cut Knife Hill and the banning of the Sundance.

Interview includes stories of attacks on women by Blackfoot and Cree raiders. It also includes the story of the acquisition of the Sioux Dance (or Grass Dance) from the bone grass spirits.

Māori Studies Thesis (MPhil) -- Massey University, 2013.

Author of libretto for the ballet Going Home Star, composer of piece based on poem I Lost My Talk by Rita Joe, and director of Jack Charles V The Crown discuss the healing potential of artistic collaborations. Followed by question and answer period. Duration: 1:08:34.

Guide suggests ideas, websites and resources to support classroom activities.

An essay and information pertaining to early female photographer Geraldine Moody and includes information relating to her interactions with indigenous peoples.

Multi-media artist speaks about the various series he has created. Presented as part of the It's Complicated: Art about Home exhibition. Followed by question and answer period. Duration: 1:09:58.

Reviews the literature of 36 international research studies; discusses research methods involving artistic practices. Identifies areas in which arts based methods may offer benefits to an Indigenous research agenda: (a) participant engagement, (b) relationship building, (c) Indigenous knowledge creation, (d) capacity building, and (e) community action.

Presentations on collaborative research: Part 1: Research in Museums and it’s Contribution to Native Communities by Pat Courtney Gold. Part 2: Remembering Heritage Through the Arts in Alaska's Communities by Nadia Jackinsky Sethi. Part 3: G̱a̱lg̱a̱poła (Working Together) – A Collaborative Reframing of Kwakiutl Film and Audio Recordings with Franz Boas by Kathryn Bunn Marcuse, Kaleb Child, Coreen Child and Tom Child. Duration: 2:02:05

First presentation discusses dance groups which perform both traditional and modern works and decolonizing the field of art history. Second presentation discusses resilience as demonstrated by women weavers, with a focus on octopus bags created by artist Shgen Doo Tan George. Third presentation discusses the two house posts carved for the Burke Museum as replacements for the originals which had been repatriated. Duration: 1:25:12.

Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.

Looks at ethnic dancing in Kamchatka, Russia. Chapter in book: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.

Barron's notes on Julia Averkieva's article "The Tlingit Indians" from North American Indians in Historical Perspective / edited by Eleanor Burke Leacock & Nancy Oestreich Lurie. Published New York: Random House, c1971, page 317 to 342. Barron's notes break the article down into sections. These include origins, economic base, transition from a clan community to a class society etc. The article appears to be a fairly comprehensive look at the history of the social life of the Tlingit as explained by the stratification of their society.

Focuses on the uniqueness of the Banff Centre's six-week Aboriginal Arts Program and the positive impact it has had on the Aboriginal community.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.

Consists of an interview with Muskwa where he gives a brief description of the significance of various ceremonial clothing and talks about various dances.

Consists of an interview with Pones where he describes various ceremonies.

Comments on what it is like to be an Inuit artist working in the North today including the challenges and opportunities. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 8.

Music Thesis (M.Mus)--University of British Columbia, 1977.

Interview discusses the different ceremonies and dances relating to culture and tradition. Duration: 1:02:31.

Book review of: Beyond Red Power edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler.