Galleries, Museums & Exhibitions

Overview of a conference discussion held with contemporary artists, museum curators, anthropologists and historians regarding cultural artifact repatriation.

Website for James Luna's performance and installation art exhibition which took place at the George Gustav Heye Center in 2008.

Introduction to and commentary on the special issue which features extracts from a conference with the same name and articles which focus on the ways that Indigenous peoples represent European people(s), and vice versa, in art.

Highlights the collector's life and the formation of the collection housed at the North Vancouver Museum and Archives. Includes annotated images.

Website for virtual exhibit contains links to images listed by artist and region, study lab, resources, basket game and the Burke Museum database.

Article speaks to many of the pieces included in Issue 20:2 of American Indian Quarterly, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, and describes some of the process and changes happening in Indigenous and Archaeological communities.

Exhibition presented February 14 to March 4, 2004 and March 29 to April 25, 2004. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 20.

Discusses conservation treatment methods using the following considerations: unresolved questions regarding legal ownership, potential for treatments to prejudice future treatment options and the analytical value, consideration of non-physical aspects.

Discusses how Southern legislators and administrators refused to acknowledge American Indians as a distinct society and lumped them with blacks as a method of cultural erasure.

Curator of exhibition discusses the Inuit artist's unusual style. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 26.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1997.

Ten panels demonstrate the progression of the war, highlighting some of the key battles and significant figures of the war.

Description of a travelling art exhibit, The Recognition of Place: Strength & Endurance of Aboriginal Women, which features eight female leaders, some posthumously. Article found on pages 1-2.

Discusses McGill University's Redpath Museum and its significance as a site of Canadian archaeological and ethnological objects.

Art and Culture Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2010.

Anthropology Thesis (B.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2009.

Review of Exhibition and book: Isumavut: The Artistic Expression of Nine Cape Dorset Women at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, October 6, 1994 to March 3, 1996. Inuit Women Artists: Voice From Cape Dorset edited by Odette Leroux, Marion E. Jackson, and Minnie Aodla Freeman. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.

Review of four exhibition catalogues: From Our Hands at the Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto. Pipes That Won't Smoke; Coal That Won't Burn at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary. The Legacy: Continuing Traditions of Canadian Northwest Indian Art at the British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria. The Four Seasons at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver.

World Literatures and Cultures Major Research Paper (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2020. Focuses on the Bentwood Box by Luke Marston, the Witness Blanket by Carey Newman and the Living and Healing Quilt.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2005.

Cultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2011.

Museology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 2017. Three cases studies: Burke Museum and the Stó:lō Nation; the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Siksika Nation; and the Field Museum and the Haida Nation.

Extract from a presentation at the symposium “Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together,” discusses the process of building relationships between Indigenous peoples and museums, describes the experience of visiting a museum as an Indigenous person.

Exhibition reviews of: The Human Face, March 20 to November 13, 1994. Matisse: The Inuit Face, April 24 to June 19, 1994. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 31.

English, Media and Performing Arts Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New South Wales, 2009.

Comments on the artists' solo exhibition entitled Father's Day. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 138.

Looks at an exhibition that marked a gathering between artists from Canada and Australia.

Brief description of festival focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Culture in the lead up to the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

Article studies what influences impacted upon the evolution of special clothing for festive occasions.

Describes Inuit ivory carvings from between roughly 1750 and 1948 that were collected by the Museum. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 28.

Describes the process of the Mohican people of Wisconsin as they negotiated Mission House Museum for the repatriation of a Bible and Communion set over more than 30 years. Highlights issues of material culture; of accessibility, possession, and control.

Film and Moving Image Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Concordia University, 2016.

Contains short biographical descriptions, information on exhibitions, collections and bibliographic references.

Looks at the exhibition "The Indian Act Revisited" at the Huron-Wendat Museum in Quebec.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.13.

Website contains links, some with access to the full text of presentations, from a conference which explores intellectual thought and cultural development of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Many of the presenters were Canadian.

Book review of: First Nations, First Thoughts: The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada edited by Annis May Timpson.

Book review of: First Nations, First Thoughts edited by Annis May Timpson.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2001. This work is largely focussed on the Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life exhibit of 1999-2000.

Book review of First Nations, Museums, Narrations by Alison K. Brown.

Uses four examples to illustrate how European-style and Aboriginal-run museums are dealing with issues surrounding the presentation of identity. Paper presented at Hybrid Entities: Intersections 2005 conference hosted by the Joint York University/ Ryerson College Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture.

Book review of: The First Passionate Collector: The Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art curated by Darlene Coward Wright. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 45.

Includes both quantitative and qualitative information gathered from across the country. Qualitative findings are arranged under the following headings: reimaging representation, embedding Indigenous values, increasing Indigenous opportunities, and two-way caretaking of cultural material. Related material: Roadmap for Enhancing Indigenous Engagement in Museums and Galleries.

Includes policies from the 2005 version with extensive recommendations for additions and revisions.

Topics include the implications of the Tsilhqot’in and Grassy Narrows decisions, duty to consult, provincial treaty obligations, and proposed federal land claims policy.

Virtual exhibition includes topics such as demography, geography. hunting, fishing, trapping, trade, and the Metis; includes several short biographies.

Makes recommendations aimed at artists and curators: group shows should be less frequent and more focused, increased opportunities for solo exhibitions should exist, non-Aboriginal curators should include Aboriginal artists in their practices and vice versa. Excerpt from:On Aboriginal Representation in the Gallery edited by Lynda Jessup and Shannon Bagg.