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Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Molly P. Rozum
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Summer, 2006, pp. 206-207
Book review of: Challenging Frontiers edited by Lorry Felske and Beverly Rasporich.
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Challenging Racism in Higher Education: Promoting Justice

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michael W. Simpson
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 4, Reforming Our Schools, Native Style, Summer, 2006
Book review of: Challenging Racism in Higher Education: Promoting Justice by Mark Chesler, Amanda Lewis, and James Crowfoot.
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Changemakers Lesson Plans: Remote Learning

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Illuminative

Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.

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Changes in Film Representations of Sami Culture and Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne-Kari Skarðhamar (Skarohamar) (Skardhamar)
Nordlit, no. 23, Arctic Discourses, 2008, pp. 293-303
Discusses changes from 1929 to 2007 regarding Sami identity in Finnmark. Looks at the movie Lajla produced in 1929 comparing it to another version produced in 1937.
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Changing Images: Photographic Collections of First People of the Pacific Northwest Coast Held in the Royal British Columbia Museum, 1860-1920

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dan Savard
BC Studies, no. 145, Spring, 2005, pp. 55-96
Using examples taken from images housed in the Anthropology Section of the Museum, argues that depending upon the photographer's motivations, they may portray an accurate record of Aboriginal culture or a skewed, Eurocentric viewpoint.
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Charles Alexander Eastman's From the Deep Woods to Civilization and the Shaping of Native Manhood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter L. Bayers
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall, 2008, pp. 52-73
Comments on Eastman's work, From the Deep Woods to Civilization, and his notion that Aboriginals had little choice but to assimilate into white society if they were to survive. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 52.
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Chasms and Collisions: Native American Women's Decolonial Labor

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Molly Suzanne McGlennen
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Red Readings, December 30, 2018, pp. 63-79
Article engages with the visual art of two different Indigenous women artists, Sarah Sense and Shan Goshorn, and the work it does to challenge colonial narratives and representations of Indigeneity, and Indigenous women by addressing "chasms of misunderstanding and collisions of cultural representation."
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The Cheyenne Nation: People of the Great Plains

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Václav Vachrlon
Describes the unique culture, history, life and problems of the Cheyenne. Bachelor's Thesis towards undergraduate degree in English--University of West Bohemia, 2014.
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'Chief Illiniwek' Does His Last Dance

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tim Giago
Indigenous Policy Journal , vol. 18, no. 1, Spring, 2007
Discusses the use of human beings as mascots and the reasons why the University of Illinois dropped its Indian mascot.
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Children at Muskoday (John Smith) Reserve.

Images » Photographs
Children in western dress posing in front of house. Description on back reads: John Smith Indian Reserve. A very few of the children. Said Bunny " -- they are as numerous as chickens." McEwan supplied the food they are eating. This is the chiefs home and therefore better than the others. August 17, 1942.
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Children of Change, Not Doom: Indigenous Futurist Heroines in YA

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynette James
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 151-176
Proposes that “Indigenous futurism is a deliberate, intentional, and purpose-driven position that addresses not only inclusion but intersectionality for its protagonists and themes;” and ask the reader to consider it both an aesthetic and a framework for critical theory. Examines different dystopian YA texts in this context.
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Choking Off That Angel Mother: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Strategic Humor

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cari M. Carpenter
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 3, Fall, 2014, pp. 1-24
Examines the various forms of humor that Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins uses to disrupt non-Native expectations of Indigenous identity. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
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Christine Quintasket

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Heather Andrews Miller
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 1, April 2007, p. 30

Chronicles the life and works of the novelist and advocate of Aboriginal land rights.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.30.

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Cincinnati’s Wild West: The 1896 Rosebud Sioux Encampment

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Labry Meyn
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 4, 2002, pp. 1-20
Looks at the 89 people who travelled over a thousand miles by train to take part in the Wild West show that imitated the William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West shows that were capturing the imagination of crowds across the United States.
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Cinema, Culture & Society: Westerns

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Cinema
Culture & Society
Brief bibliography lists general and Aboriginal-specific sources of literature on the genre. Current as of 2004.
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Circling the Question of Nationalism in Native Canadian Literature and its Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Fagan
Sam McKegney
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, May 2008, pp. 31-42
Examines to what extent Native writers, critics, and researchers, as well as non-Native people who work in Native Studies, are led or constrained by beliefs about what is traditional, spiritually appropriate, politically effective and beneficial to Native communities.
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Claims to Native Identity in Children’s Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debbie Reese
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 123-132
Discusses successful children's writers that falsely claim Indigenous ancestry and the effect their success had on maintaining stereotypes that fit the popular conception of what constitutes an Indigenous person. The four of the writers profiled are: Jamake Highwater Anpao, Paul Goble, Sharon Creech, and Asa Carter.
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The Co-optation of Tecumseh: The War of 1812 and Racial Discourses in Upper Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robin Jarvis Brownlie
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 23, no. 1, New Series, 2012, pp. 39-63
Analyzes two long poems to demonstrate how Canadian society used the leader to help construct a "national" identity, while using the concept of "noble savage" as justification for colonization.
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Cody Wild West Days / May 11, 2002 - Poster.

Archival » Archival Items
Poster advertising the Cody Wild West Days Buffalo Bill Top Notch Horse Sale, held at the historic Irma Hotel.

Historical note:

Buffalo Bill Cody helped found Cody, Wyoming in 1895, and established his TE Ranch in the area.
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Cody Wild West Days, May 11th-13th. 2001 - Poster.

Archival » Archival Items
Poster advertising Cody, Wyoming's Cody Wild West Days, featuring a horse sale, matched bronco riding and a rodeo cowboy reunion.

Historical note:

Buffalo Bill Cody helped found Cody, Wyoming in 1895, and established his TE Ranch in the area. In 1902, he built the Irma Hotel, which he called "just the sweetest hotel that ever was." Buffalo Bill maintained two suites and an office at the hotel for his personal use.
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Coming Out From Behind the Rocks: Constructs of the Indian in Recent U.S and Canadian Cinema

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Appleford
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1995, pp. 97-118
Looks at films as social barometers of attitudes and ideologies; films discussed: Dances With Wolves, Black Robe, Thunderheart, Clearcut, Loyalties, Company of Strangers, Where the Spirit Lives, Spirit Rider, and Powwow Highway.
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Committee Proposal to Hire a Person to be involved in Areas which affect Native People

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Tuesday, February 19, 1980 regarding a proposal to hire an permanent staff member for the purposes of co-ordination, development and research with reference to Aboriginal-Non-Aboriginal Affairs in the City of Saskatoon. The report cites increased Aboriginal migration to the city over the previous two years as one reason behind this proposal.
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Commodifications of the Past? An IPinCH KnowledgeBase Bibliography

Alternate Title
Commodifications of the Past? An IPinCH Knowledge Base Bibliography
Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage: Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Herbert
Lists 208 publications (articles, letters, websites, webpages, government documents, and books) deemed to be of interest to the Commodifications of the Past? Working Group from the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) research project.
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Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Toward a Hemispheric Approach

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mario N. Castro
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 127-131
Book review of: Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas edited by M. Bianet Castellanos, Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera, and Arturo J. Aldama. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 127.
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Concepts of Native America

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Houle
ConunDrumOnline, vol. 3, June 2006, p. [?]
Comments on public artworks by artist Edgar Heap of Birds, including a video presentation at Times Square and a large installation for the Denver Art Museum.
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