Dance

Black and white photograph of a group of indigenous men prior to a tea dance. Some wear traditional costumes or crowns of foliage. Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

The interview includes discussion concerning home, work and social situations.

Music Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2005. Volume One.

Looks at the success of the 14th Annual John Arcand Fiddle Fest which features Métis fiddle music and dancing. Article located by scrolling to page 11.

Speaker discusses "Brocket Indian Days", the longest running powwow in Canada, and how the gatherings have changed over time. Duration: 58:12.

Consists of an interview where Fine Day describes the preparation and preservation of food and the making of weapons.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he describes a ceremony (unidentified), a Give Away Dance and the warlike achievements of Sweet Grass.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he describes a transvestite medicine man. He also gives general reminiscences of traditional lifestyle.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he describes how dances are acquired.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he describes the transferal of bundles. He also describes power acquired from spirits and through fasting.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he lists various articles used in connection with the Sundance. He also gives the reasons for having a Sundance.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he describes a significant dream he had as a child. He gives a description of a naming ceremony. He also describes the procedures leading to a Sundance.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he outlines the proper as opposed to the improper procedures for giving a Sundance.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he gives a brief description of the duties of a chief, a description of treatment for successful warriors and a description of the ceremonialism involved in the Sundance.

Fine Day gives general reminiscences about the past.

Consists of an interview where he gives various reasons for holding a Sundance.

Consists of an interview where Fine Day describes the hunting of buffalo. He also gives a confused account of dancing.

A long, general incoherent monologue which will be of little value to researchers.

Consists of an interview where he gives a description of punishment for violation of the hunting code. He also gives a brief description of saddle making.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he gives a brief account of the role of the Cree in the Riel Rebellion.

Consists of an interview where Fine Day gives a description of death customs, a description of the construction of tipis and talks about the ceremonialism associated with their use.

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Native Dancers Arctic Winter Games"

Book review of: First Fish, First People edited by Judith Roche and Meg McHutchison. River of the Angry Moon by Mark Hume with Harvey Thommasen. Scroll to page 111 to read review.

Series of six slides showing dancers in ceremonial dress in action during the Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation International Pow Wow.

Series of slides showing a male Aboriginal performing a hoop dance indoors at Wanuskewin.

First Nations men in traditional dress dancing on stage at Pion-Era, Saskatoon, 1958.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 1999.

Fifteen images (4 scanned here) of a First Nations person singing and dancing for a group of spectators at the Saskatoon Public Library, Main Branch, on July 4, 1975.

A postcard featuring four First Nations youth in ceremonial clothing standing a hill overlooking the South Saskatchewan River on a bright summer day. Saskatchewan is written on the front.

Describes costumes worn by performers in Chicken Dance competitions held in Alberta and Montana. Includes photographs.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by M. W. Stirling Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri by Edwin Thompson Denig, edited by J. N. B. Hewitt

Describes photographs of dancers taken at Fort Berthold, North Dakota.

File contains 12 negatives showing traditional dancers at a pow wow on November 14, 2008. The dancers range from adults to children and are clothed in traditional garb. The pow wow was held at the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre from November 14, 1990.

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

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

George Gwynne Mann was a farm instructor and Indian agent for the government of Canada in Onion Lake, North-West Territories from 1879 to 1900. Mann and his family fled Onion Lake to Fort Pitt after the so-called Frog Lake "massacre," and were later taken as hostages from Fort Pitt and held for two months by Plains Cree warriors. The file contains hand written manuscripts and photocopied documents that detail Mann family's involvement in the 1885 rebellion, and describe aspects of Aboriginal ceremony and culture.

Consists of an interview that tells the story of the origin of the Ghost Dance as well as the story of the acquisition of the Shaggy Pipe.

Discusses artists works in the exhibition "Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art" as part of a wider movement to define Indigenous style.

Book review of: Ghost Dances and Identity by Gregory E. Smoak.

Unit is designed to provide information on Métis identity and aspects of their culture such as food, clothing, language, and music and dance.

Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan. Images include: On the East Bank of the South Saskatchewan, Aug 24; Mr. Clark's Grass Plot During the Pow Wow, Fort Carlton, August 26; and Chippeway Indians Dancing the Sioux Dance at Rat Portage. Published in The Graphic, October 22, 1881. No article associated with this image in the newspaper.

An image of a group of Aboriginal people posing in front of their tipis. Most are wrapped in blankets, and two are wearing wide brimmed hats. Artificial colour has been added to the picture in a chromolithograph process.

Offers guidance on appropriate behaviour and dress when seeking information from Elders or Knowledge Keepers and attending ceremonies, feasts and other cultural events in Treaty Four territory and the homeland of the Métis.

Author examines the different forms that literature takes in na Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian people) culture. Discusses the early publication of newspapers and novels and the literature and story carried in the hula, a traditional dance.

Dance production about the life of an Aboriginal opera singer.

A colour photograph taken in BC of Harriet E. Gerry seated as she is honoured in a ceremony by [Squamish?] people. A man with a large mask dances near her while several other Aboriginal people in pow wow style ceremonial clothing look on. There is a small midway with ferris wheel, decorative teepees and totem poles in background.

Associate producer of Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation speaks about the production performed by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet which was based on stories told by survivors. Duration: 14:03.

Describes how musical group becomes a vehicle for expressing urban Canadian aboriginal identity in a group setting.