Performing Arts

Discussion of the artist's paintings and performance art in which he presents alternate perceptions of history.

Recounts the achievements of Sandra Laronde, founder of Native Women in the Arts and Red Sky Performance.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.18.

Looks at an artistic work that uses performance, sculpture, installation and video.

[History] Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia Southern University, 2019. Focuses on Charlie Hill, the 1491s, Deanna (MAD) Diaz, and Adrianne Chalepah.

Explores Native American humor, comedians and the background of Charles Hill, the most famous Native American comic in the USA..

Looks at the history of the research project and why applied theatre was chosen as a research method and the challenges and limitations of such an approach.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2004.

Essay, presented in both English and Inuktitut, looks at the life of a drum, from its formation to its sound. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.

Bibliography for Canadian playwright Wendy Lill

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University, 2009.

Review of the performance piece Putting the Wild Back into the West: Starring Buffalo Boy and Belle Sauvage, curated by Joanne Bristol.

Arts and Social Sciences Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2006.

Discusses how the pageant, which traced the history of the U.S. and was enacted during the annual "Indian Day" at the school, was used to teach children that only the white, Christian lifestyle was correct.

Presents the Making Treaty 7 artists' material that was developed over a three-week residency. Duration: 1:31:27.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2004.

Online exhibition with twelve artists and three writers which looks at Aboriginal ideas about healing and how they influence First Nations people and artists today.

Book reviews of Medicine Shows by Yvette Nolan and Daniel David Moses edited by Tracey Lindberg and David Brundage.

File contains 3 negatives from Metis Indian Variety Night on October 21 (no year given, likely 1960s or early 1970s), in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The first negative shows an elderly man in a suit and wearing a headress on stage. The second shows three male perfomers on stage apparently singing or performing with instruments. The third shows a man (with guitar) and a woman performing on stage, and a group of men offstage to the side.

Performance presented from First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in and Community Gathering Duration: 22:35.

Examines how Native communities maintained their social and cultural identities amidst the attempt of middle class whites to preserve their own version of Indian culture.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2017.

Discusses the active role of Maize within Wixáritari ceremony from cultivation to harvesting, emphasizing the role of women in preparing Corn-based substances for ceremonial offerings. Through storytelling and performative practices women are active in transmitting the relationships between corn and community.

2012 Indigenous Women's Symposium keynote address. Duration: 50:47.

Author discusses his beginnings, achievements, and use of art to raise awareness of the social and political realities of life in Papua New Guinea.

Comments on the Assiniboine people who use both speech and action to perform traditional stories.

Reports results of online survey with 621 creators, promoters, supporters of Indigenous music in Canada, group discussions and 70 interviews. Includes profiles and outputs of artists and companies, information on sources of economic impact, barriers and challenges encountered, and considerations for further development.

Paper focuses on responses to Westerns, explains why controlling their public image is important to Native Americans and discusses use of how they are using film and video documentaries to re-present themselves.

File contains twelve negatives from the Native Brotherhood Variety Show held in Prince Albert, SK, on June 20, 1975. The two scanned negatives showcase a band on stage at the Variety show with guitars.

Organization decicated to creating, developing and producing artistic expression; displays the creation, development and production of the arts in Canada

Determines that the play Jukebox Lady was an acceptable means for focusing on the problem of alcohol abuse for Native people.

Book review of: Native Performers in Wild West Shows by Linda Scarangella McNenly. Review located by scrolling to page 229.

Focuses on Native Earth Performing Arts company and the value of theatre to the community. Most information collected through conducting approximately 100 interviews with artists and audience members.

Overview of the material from the INDIANacts conference discussing various themes related to Aboriginal performance art.

Critically examines various articles from mid-1990s Canadian drama, discussing whose works get into print and the generic look of drama in theatre.

Examines the pain and rage in the performances of Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun work.

Presents play FrontRunners by Laura Robinson about segregation and abuse in residential school, the Aboriginal teenage boys selected to run 800 kilometers carrying the torch for the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1967, and the apology by the province thirty-two years later. Duration: 47:27 Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunner Study Guide. Lesson Plan.

Bigsby states that the best platform for the expression of Aboriginal representation is live drama, which the author agrees with, nevertheless would not "reject" film as valuable medium.

Discusses the roles of Fist Nations peoples in two musical works: Arthur A. Clappé and Frederick Augustus Dixon's Canada's Welcome from 1879 and Joseph Vézina, Alex Villandray and Louis Fleur's Le fétiche from 1912.

James Luna Puyukitchum comments on his experiences growing up in California and the reaction to his installation/performance titled, Artifact Piece.

Brief article accompanied by photographs of prominent participants in Bertram Mills' Christmas Circus held at the Grant Hall in London, England.

Discusses works by famous playwright from Oklahoma, best known for the play Green Grow the Lilacs in 1931.

Reviews and evaluates documentary and fictional Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s, in relation to how the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States is portrayed.

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2005.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Central Missouri State University, 2005. Discussion of Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West Show and other similar venues.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2016.

Discusses changing the role of of settler-spectators and changing the relationship with Indigenous people.