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Poundmaker, Chief Cris

Images » Photographs
Negative of an artists representation of Chief Poundmaker, in traditional costume.
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Powwow Highway in an Ethnic Film and Literature Course

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marshall Toman
Carole Gerster
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1991, pp. 29-38
Looks at how Powwow Highway provides a contrast to many standard media depictions of Indians, and explores the benefits of a Native American segment of an education course that studies ethnic film and literature. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Predicament of Identity

Alternate Title
Review Essay: The Predicament of Identity
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Liza Black
Ethnohistory, vol. 48, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2001, pp. 337-350
Review essay of: Weaving Ourselves into the Land: Charles Godfrey Leland, "Indians" and the Study of Native American Religions by Thomas C. Parkhill. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated by Mike Gidley. Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past by Leah Dilworth. Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933. by L. G. Moses.
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Prejudice about Indians in Textbooks

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Verna J. Kirkness
Journal of Reading, vol. 20, no. 7, April 1977, pp. 595-600
Lists ten types of bias: omission, defamation, disparagement, cumulative implication, lack of validity, inertia, obliteration, disembodiment, and lack of concreteness, and provides examples of prejudicial textbooks in each category.
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The Press, the Boldt Decision, and Indian-White Relations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce G. Miller
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 75-97
Examines newspaper coverage of Aboriginals in the Skagit Valley of Northwest Washington State during the treaty-related dispute over salmon fishing.
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Priests Killed at Frog Lake

Images » Photographs
Negative of an artist's representation of the killing of priests at Frog Lake by Indigenous men with guns.
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"The Primitive Has Escaped Control": Narrating the Nation in The Heartsong of Charging Elk

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Opitz
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 98-106
Describes how Blackfeet author James Welch contributed to decolonization by questioning the relationship between government policies of removal, extinction and assimilation and stereotypical representations of Native American identity. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 98.
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Prince Albert - Indians

Archival » Archival Items
File contains information on activism, agriculture, reserve life, medical services, drug prescriptions, land claims, the Indian Act, Metis, Indigenous rights, chiefs, sterilization of indigenous women, the "Red Paper", discrimination, treaties 8 and 11, recreation, Liquor Act, provincial law, housing, Local Initiatives Programs, utilities on reserves, and poverty.
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Princess Pocahontas, Rebecca Rolfe (1595-1617)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald K. Sharpes
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 231-239

Relays the true story of Pocahontas who saved the life of John Smith, leader of the first American settlement in Jamestown, but unlike the Disney version, she did not fall in love with him or marry him.

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Progress Report on Affirmative Action in Saskatoon

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, January 19, 1981 regarding actions taken to date and the progress made towards developing an Affirmative Action Program for the City by the City's Director of Personnel Services. Includes discussion of meetings with Native Outreach and Native Placing and Training-on-the-Job Units of the Canada Employment Centre, as well as feedback from civic Unions and women's groups.
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Project Naming

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Libary and Archives Canada
Project seeks help to identify the Inuit people whose photographs were taken by various photographers from the late 1800s to 1950. Includes canned photos, some explanatory audio and video material. Users are invited to submit names of individuals recognized.
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Promoting the Progressive Indian: Lee Harkins and The American Indian Magazine

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John M. Coward
American Journalism, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter, 1997, pp. 3-18
Argues that the publication mirrored the attitudes of mainstream society in it's idealized version of the past and promotion of assimilation as "progress", but its founder displayed little understanding of issues confronting traditional Native Americans. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
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The Publications of the Carlisle Indian School: Cultural Voices or Pure Propaganda?

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication ; 80th, 1997. History Division
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Beth A. Haller
Agues that publications served an advocacy purpose to combat the negative attitudes held by the general public, but only presented what would further cause these attitudes, not the true opinions of students. Scroll to p. 60 read paper.
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Pueblo Cultural Bodies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara A. Babcock
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 107, no. 423, Winter, 1994, pp. 40-54
Discusses the issues associated with cultural value and imaging of Pueblo potteries and Pueblo women.
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Purely Ornamental

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Ayre
The Beaver, vol. 73, no. 4, August/September 1993, pp. 45-[?]
Book review of: The Imaginary Indian by Daniel Francis.
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Qaujimanira: Inuit Art as Autoethnography

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Krista Ulujuk Zawadski
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 151-156

In this conference extract the author examines the history of Inuit art noting the ongoing self-representation in the work and argues that this allows for a high level of agency in Inuit art.

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"The Question Which Has Puzzled, and Still Puzzles": How American Indian Authors Challenged Dominant Discourse about Native American Origins in the Nineteenth Century

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Meghan C. L. Howey
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 435-474
Looks at how Kahkewaquonaby (Peter Jones), Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway), and William Whipple Warren engaged with questions of Native American origins differently and constructed and disseminated answers to these dilemmas.
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A Race Divided: The Indian Westerns of John Ford

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Aleiss
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 167-186
Analyzes Ford's controversial portrayals and images of American Indians in his many films. Some critics see his works as depicting savages or brutal warriors and others see nobility, sympathy and a resistance to the loss of cultural identity and a refusal to bow to the dominant Anglo-American society.
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Race, Feminine Power, and the Vietnam War in Philip Red Eagle's Red Earth

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Andrews
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, 2004, pp. 93-105
Examines racial and gender tensions during the Vietnam War and explains how Red Earth, a novel by Phillip Red Eagle, urges readers to question antagonism based on race and or gender and move toward a healthier alternative.
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"A Race of Mules": Mixed-Bloods in Western American Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Hubner
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 1995, pp. 61-74
An exploration of regional literature in the American West showed it was rare to find Métis in these novels. The article suggests Canadian and American authors can be distinguished by how they develop the image of the Métis.
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The Raced Female Body and the Discourse of Peuplement in Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear and The Scorched-Wood People

Alternate Title
Winner of the 2000 George Wicken Prize in Canadian Literature: The Raced Female Body and the Discourse of Peuplement in Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear and The Scorched-Wood People
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Catherine Higginson
Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 72, Winter, 2000, pp. 172-190
Examination of Rudy Wiebe's novels and his use of conventional 19th-century depictions of women.
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Racial Profiling a Fact of Life

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, November 25, 2002, p. B1
Comments on instances of ethnic stereotyping since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Racial Profiling an Ugly Picture

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, March 20, 2006, p. B1
Examines racial profiling directed at Muslims and gives an account of historical Canadian racial profiling.
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Racial Profiling and Police Subculture

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet Chan
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 53, no. 1, January 2011, pp. 75-78
Suggests that racial profiling practices should be scrutinized andargues that media publicity plays an important role in creating the pressure for change.
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The Racialized Subject in James Tyman's Inside Out

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Warren Cariou
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 68-84
Discusses the novel Inside Out: An Autobiography of a Native Canadian which incorporates prison confession narrative and First Nation autobiography. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 68.
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