Images & Stereotypes

Booklet of a study of Vuntakutchin people living at Fort Egbert, Alaska. Topics include habitations, annual movements, food, fishing and hunting, government, funeral ceremonies and names.

Sketch subtitle: White inhabitants of the Saskatchewan region leaving a settlement after an Indian raid. Two males and one female, all wearing snowshoes and heavy coats, walking through the snow. The woman is carrying a small child.

Educational Policy Studies (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2009.

Contends that many Native American peoples have lived highly urbanized lives for many millennium, thus dispelling the myth that all these people live in rural areas with a low density of population.

Intended to provide information to guide local film and television production community, visiting internationals, broadcasters, funders, and educational institutes in their engagements with Māori content and communities.

Kinesiology and Health Thesis (M.Sc.)--Miami University, 2011.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2008.

Discusses the representation of the northwest Washington Quileute Nation in the movie Twilight and reactions to these representations.

An image of a totem pole in a park setting. The pole in particular is artificially coloured, and may not be a realistic impression of the original artwork.

Filologia Anglesa i Germanéstica Thesis--Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2009.

[Communication] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, 2019.

Argues that governmental recognition of American Indian tribes as well as criteria for tribe membership needs to be altered. Capstone Experience Manuscript--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.

Originally published in 1917.

"Discusses the significance of photographs as a record of American ideas about the education of Native Americans during the last years of the 19th Century." Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Performance art by James Luna. Duration: 2:41.

Various papers and articles pertaining to Louis Riel. Includes correspondence regarding Diefenbaker's view of Riel, the alleged bribe Riel requested to depart from Canada, a request for information to fight the naming of Place Riel at the University of Saskatchewan, casualty lists from the Northwest Resistance and letters regarding the commemoration of Riel's legacy.

Article examines the writings of Richard Erdoes and interrogates them for issues of authenticity, appropriation, and misrepresentation.

Article examines the German fascination with North American Indigenous peoples and contemporary Indigenous responses; considers the works of Drew Hayden Taylor and Kent Monkman as practices of survivance and resistance to the “Indianer,” a romanticized German imagining of Indigenous people.

Explores issues surrounding the ethics of representation in photography and film-making.

Film review of: Video Letters from Prison directed by Milt Lee.

In this conference extract the author explores the different ways that his Haudenosaunee ancestors would have represented their experiences with and perceptions of the first Europeans to arrive in what is now North America.

Discusses photography as a technology used for domination, especially in the conquest of Native Americans. Photography achieved unparalleled success and soon became a means to justify and legitimate policies of American imperial expansion.

Explores Sherman Alexie's novel, Indian Killer, focusing on the final chapter entitled, "Creation Story." To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1998

Examines the role of visual anthropology in creating and interpreting cultural images and discusses how documentary video techniques could be used for cultural preservation.

Communication and Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2012.

Book review of: Visualities edited by Denise K. Cummings.

An analysis of the cultural values and perspectives manifested within the sculpture program in Vienna, Austria during the 1870s.

Catalogue to accompany exhibition of the same name held January 30-February 28, 2004 at the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

Analyzes photographs taken between the 1890s and 1950s to illustrate how they reflect belief systems and the context in which they were taken.

Compares various films, their styles, and intent when dealing with subject matter relating to the culture of the First Nation.

Assesses two major museum exhibits as individual projects and as illustrations of broader issues concerning the representation of Native Americans: Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Chiefly Feast: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch at the American Museum of Natural History.0892-8339

Introduction to a special issue on interpretation and presentation of Native American history and culture; eight authors present perspectives on methods, ethics and issues of the non-Native American as the historian.

Chapters one, two, four, seven, and twelve.

Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2012.

Study guide to accompany film, Wapos Bay: Journey Through Fear. Oriented toward elementary school students; contains episode description, background information, previewing and post-viewing activities and questions which pertain to the key themes.

Looks at the representations of Native Americans and how the exhibition deals with common stereotypes.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2008.

Discusses the stereotype that American Indians made excellent soldiers, marksmen, scouts, etc. simply because of their culture.

Book review of: Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds by Sandra Lambertus.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Massachusetts Boston, 2020

Assignment reporter Mike Wendling in the United States to find out why protests against the name "Redskins" are on the rise. Duration: 25:00.

Records and contrasts Navajo respondents reactions to various films on the same Navajo topics, but made by Native American and non-native film makers.

Documentary on the role of Native Americans in the military campaigns of World War I and II, and the Korean and Vietnam conflict. Duration: 56:14.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 2017.

Looks at including stories of homecoming, nationhood and searching for roots into the promotion of home country travel to ex pats.

Study collects and analyses responses to mainstream representations of Inuit culture from Inuit women. Discusses Western beauty standards projected onto Indigenous women, normalization of media tropes including silencing, victimization, violence, missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW). Stresses a need positive role models and self-representation.