Images & Stereotypes

English and Film Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2005.

Reviews theories and the issues/problems associated with their application by historians and anthropologist. Focus is on two main, competing theories: Hobsbawmian and constructivist.

English Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2010.

Discusses imagery in the films, It Starts with a Whisper and Honey Moccasin.

Canadian Heritage and Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1999.

Film reviews of: Sober Indian/Dangerous Indian directed by John Maisch. Thunder-Being Nation: The Oglala Sioux of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation directed by Steven Lewis Simpson. The Battle for Whiteclay directed by Mark Vasina.

Book review of Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers by Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 124.

Book review of: Seeing Red by Mark Cronlund Anderson, Carmen L. Robertson.

Book review of Seeing Red by Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson.

Book review of: Seeing Red by Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson.

English and Women's Studies (Ph.D.)--The University of Michigan, 2002.

Podcast of interview with authors of book which deals with representations of Aboriginals in coverage of events such as signing of Treaty 3, the North-West Rebellion, Bill C-31, death of Pauline E. Johnson, and the Oka Crisis. Duration: 34:42.

Studies the Plains Indian image created by the non-Indian over the last several hundred years.

Speaker talks about media representations of Aboriginal women and how news coverage acts to legitimize certain points of view. Duration: 20:39.

Site is divided into five sections : recommended titles, titles not recommended, sources of reviews and information on recognizing stereotypes, and sources for obtaining books. See also : "I" is for Inclusion.

[American Literature?] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 1983.

Focuses on the works of Sherman Alexie.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2009.

Introduction from book explains how commercialization of American Indian cultures has affected the Native community and contributed to the destruction of their identity.

Book review of: Selling the Indian edited by Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer.

Looks at photographs appearing in the magazine from 1990 to 2010 using the coding factors of look, appearance, activities, surroundings and use of technology. Bachelor thesis towards an undergraduate degree in International Migration and Ethnic Relations--Malmö University, 2019.

Reviews twelve well known movies about Native Americans from 1964 to 1998.

Discusses film which is written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans and stars Native Americans in lead roles.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado, 2003.

Examines a collection of past performances by James Luna and Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

Describes the television series, We Shall Remain, that chronicles the history of Native Americans from their perspective.

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Contrasts British male colonial attitudes to women in general and Indigenous women in particular to their status in traditional Indigenous societies; traces the development of stereotypes about both men and women; looks at the impacts of government-church alliances, the role of contemporary media and incidence and types of violence perpetrated against Indigenous women; and argues that restoring safety will mean recognizing and attempting to correct harms done by non-Indigenous societies, and decolonization of communities so that they may heal from historic trauma.

Reviews an exhibition exploring the photographic representation of Native North Americans from the 1850s to the present.

Argues that only the views directly expressed by Aboriginal peoples or Indigenous authorities have validity in determining what is, and what is not appropriate, in the cross cultural experience of displaying photographs.

Journalism Thesis (M.J.)--Carleton University, 2008.

Book review of: Shape-Shifting by Andrew Macdonald, Gina Macdonald, and MaryAnn Sheridan

Looks at sharing Aboriginal knowledge, through media, with mainstream Canada as a push towards Aboriginal people being seen as equals in Canadian society.

Comments on a prolific Native American author.

Examines the way Quebec has represented the indigenous peoples of the north as a part of a sovereign province.

Lecture discusses stereotypical representations of Native Americans in early photographs, advertisements and use as sports mascots. Duration: 1:09:27.

Black and white photograph of a group of non-indigenous young women in mock cowboy and indigenous costumes, holding batons.

Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities Thesis (M.A.)--University of Barcelona, 2012.

Outlines arguments for and against having Native American mascots, and legislation and other proposed solutions.

Focuses on books written by non-Indigenous authors and still being used in some classrooms: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink; Little House on the Prairies by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Jeremy by Jon Hassler; The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare; and Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan by Mary Pope Osborne.

Discusses how counsellors at boarding schools need to upgrade their programs.

Book review of: Silent Victims: Hate Crimes Against Native Americans by Barbara Perry.

Examines how contemporary Inuit visual and literary art uses myth or legend as subject matter.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oklahoma, 2016.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2001.

Discusses the film series TimeTraveller which is about a Mohawk bounty hunter on a vision quest to uncover Mohawk history.