Images & Stereotypes

Looks at anti-racist mothering for mothers of white-inscribed children as well as for mothers whose children are racially and/or culturally marginalized.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008.

Looks at media coverage of the Declaration of Emergency which was issued for the housing crises in the communities of Kashechewan, Attawapiskat, and Fort Albany in 2012, with particular attention to the backlash that occurred against Chief Teresa Spence's hunger strike. Chapter six from Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide edited by Scott W. Murray.

Examines if Desrochers's narrative can avoid the pitfalls of stereotyping.

Looks at stereotypical thinking and the effects of colonization on Native women. Scroll down to page 155 to read article.

Explores how a number of nineteenth-century paintings perpetuated and/or challenged the culturally dominant ideas of "Orientalism" and "domestic ideology".

World Art Studies and Museology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of East Anglia, 2011.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983.

Book review of Tribal Television by Dustin Tahmahkera.

Book review of: Tribes and Tribulations by Laurence M. Hauptman.

Native American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Lethbridge, 2007.

Discusses the performances/installations Artifact Piece, Renewal Ceremony and Chapel for Pablo Tac which challenge mainstream society's stereotype of an "authentic" Indian frozen in the past. Excerpt from thesis.

Introduction to Indigenous editorial cartoons using images by Soop and Powless.

Reprint of an article by Samuel Bray, surveyor, describing his experiences travelling in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the autumn of 1894. Included is an illustration of Cree writing.

Discusses tropes or traditions, the organizing devices societies cohere to, by comparing a book and a movie. As key elements of belief systems, tropes act as powerful mediators between the world and how we experience the world’s meaning . By structuring a shared reality cultures are created, however, sometimes tropes can structure incompatible realities across cultures and distort our ability to understand cultures different from our own.

Looks at paintings by George Winter of the Potawatomi and Miami Indians of Wabash Valley.

Discusses King's contribution to the decolonization of cultural and literary explanatory practice.

Website deals with the misappropriation of a Quileute legend by Stephanie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series. Contains links to Quileute culture, twilight misconceptions, imaginary indians, and resources.

Provides tables which highlight possible curriculum inclusions for all grade levels.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1985.

Discusses the increase in tourism the movie has brought to the town of Forks, Washington and the near by Quileute Indian Reservation and the appropriation of tribal cultural property.

Author was founder of the Woodcraft Indians, a youth movement which appropriated Aboriginal culture.

An image of an Aboriginal man standing outside a teepee on the open prairie. He is wrapped in a blue blanket and wears a fur hat. Colours have been added to the picture in a chromolithograph process. Also, glitter has been glued onto the picture to highlight the trim on his blanket and the poles on the teepee. The postcard is addressed to Mrs. E. J. Cairn, England and it reads "We see a lot of these people..." See page two for complete citation.

Asserts that the National Museum of the American Indian fails to provide enough context for Aboriginal history and does not challenge colonized perceptions.

Authors examines the (neo)colonial narratives present the English print media coverage of the Glenbow Museum’s 1988 exhibit The Spirit Sings. The exhibit, a headliner of the 1988 Winter Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, is often considered to be the “catalyst for Canada's Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (1992).”

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 1998.

Explores issues of non-Aboriginal perceptions of Aboriginals, legal definitions, and Aboriginals' own attitudes about self-identification. Duration: 20:48.

Contains links to educational modules on six topics: Indigenous worldviews, Indigenous ways of knowing, stereotypes, history of Indigenous education, reconciliation, and treaties. Intended for a post-secondary audience.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

Argues that sexualized violence against Indigenous women is both gendered and racialized and originates in ongoing colonialism. Examines social media (SM) narratives that perpetuate violence; discusses how Indigenous online communities are working to mitigate these narratives. Uses Sysomos MAP analytic software to gather information on posts containing #MMIW, #MMIWG and #inquiry between 1 September 2016 and 29 July, 2017.

Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--Regent University, 1997.

A photograph of an unidentified young woman with long heavy braids. She is dressed in Indian costume, with a beaded, fringed garment only partially visible. Image has theatrical quality; may not be authentic. Edges are blurred in a vignette. This may be a print.

Discusses the elimination of school nickname "Old Siwash" from from Knox College in 1993 due to its ambiguous meaning.

Research finds that the hunter-gathers stereotype was unfounded, and that compared to the Prairie experience Sto:lo agriculture outcomes were better.

Literary criticism article which deals with the translation and internationalization of the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Discusses source material, misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples, and the promotion of colonial narratives.

"Officially adopted by the Boy Scouts of America … adopted by the American Library Association and the American Indian Association." Historical text.

Case studies of portrayals of Native Americans in Peter Pan and Pocahontas and Mexican culture in The Three Caballeros and Coco. Art and Design Honors Program Project (B.A.)--Kutztown University, 2021.

Book review of: Unsettling America by C. Richard King.

Book review of: Unsettling America by C. Richard King. Scroll down to page 202 to read review.

Looks at the importance of Indigenous stories for children, raises issues with the process of sharing cultural stories from around the world, comments on trickster stories, and critiques the book Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest.

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2018. Focuses on the work of Wendy Red Star, Ken Gonzales Day, Meryl McMaster, Chris Bose, Kent Monkman and Da-ka-xeen Mehner.

Compares essays from two special issues published in 1965 and 1968. Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.

Documentary focuses on the history of the schools, former students' stories, and contemporary issues. Duration: 56:43.

Brief discussion of how negative representations and/or lack of news coverage have contributed to attitudes about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Explores issues of structural and institutional racism.

Discusses how Aeneid can still speak to the false images projected upon Native peoples today.