Modern Uses of American Indian Art

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Baigell
Art Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, Spring, 1976, pp. 251-252
Description
Brief look at American Aboriginal art as inspiration for non-Aboriginal artists in the early 20th century.
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A Modernist Moment: Native Art and Surrealism at the University of Oklahoma

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark A. White
Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, vol. 7, no. 1, 2013, pp. 52-70
Description
Discuses the Native American fine arts movement of personal expression and active engagement with mainstream modern art during the late 1940s. Focuses on the work of artists Chief Terry Saul, Walter Richard "Dick" West, and Oscar Howe.
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The Modernist Past of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's Landscape Allegories

Alternate Title
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Born to Live and Die on Your Colonialist Reservations
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Scott Watson
Description
Discusses the way the artist's works challenge the relationship between native art and modernism. Chapter from Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Born to Live and Die on Your Colonialist Reservations edited by Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Scott Watson, and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.
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Modifying Photovoice For Community-Based Participatory Indigenous Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather Casteden
Theresa Garvin
Huu-ay-aht First Nation
Social Science and Medicine, vol. 66, no. 6, March 2008, pp. 1393-1405
Description
Evaluates the use of photovoice, a research method that uses participant photography and dialogue to create social change, which was used in a research partnership with the Huu-ay-aht First Nation.
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Module 5: Changes Prior to Modern State Formation: Migration, Exploration, Trading and Taxation

Alternate Title
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Five: Changes Prior to Modern State Formation: Migration, Exploration, Trading and Taxation
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Overview of the impact European explorers, traders and settlers had on traditional livelihoods of Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar North. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
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Module 7: Modern State–Building and Indigenous Peoples

Alternate Title
Module Seven: Modern State–Building and Indigenous Peoples
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I]
[Section Three: Secondary Societies]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Description
Overview of emergence and characteristics of the Russian, Canadian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish states and how the different regimes impacted the peoples of the circumpolar North. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
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Module 8: Self-Determination throughout History

Alternate Title
CS 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Eight: Self-Determination throughout History
University of the Arctic – CS 321
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Michel Bouchard
Greg Poelzer
Heather Exner
Ludmilla Zhukova
Jeremei Gabyshev
Ken Coates ... [et al.]]
Description
Discusses northern movements for regional and Indigenous autonomy and cultural self-determination. Includes three examples: Greenland, Nunavut, and the Sami people of Northern Europe. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
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Module 9: Secondary Societies: Centralization, Collectivization, and Relocation

Alternate Title
Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 321: Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar World I
Module Nine: Secondary Societies: Centralization, Collectivization, and Relocation
[Section Three: Secondary Societies]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yvon Csonka
L. I. Vinokourova
Description
History of Indigenous settlement patterns in the Arctic and the government interventions that have disrupted them. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
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Mohawk English in the Medical Interview

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Woolfson
Virginia Hood
Roger Secker-Walker
Ann C. Macaulay
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, 1995, pp. 503-509
Description
Discusses how cultural differences may lead to misinterpretation of information by health care providers.
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Money, Semantics, and Indian Leadership

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Oestreich Lurie
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, The History of American Indian Leadership, Winter, 1986, pp. 47-63
Description
An examination of the cultural differences in the interpretations of certain English words and how they affect tribal and federal government relations and communications.
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Monumental Interventions: Jeff Thomas Seizes Commemorative Space

Alternate Title
Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada
[Cultural Studies Series]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Claudette Lauzon
Description
Discusses the photographic series Scouting for Indians which documents and challenges mainstream representations of Aboriginals. Excerpt from Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada edited by Kirsty Robertson and J. Kerri Cronin.
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Moral Minimalism in American Indian Land Claims

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Burke A. Hendrix
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005
Description
Author approaches land claim arguments in the United States from a Western, moral philosophy perspective, compares Indigenous and Western moral perspectives.
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Morality Destabilised: Reading Emma Lee Warrior’s "Compatriots"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann McKinnon
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1998, pp. [53]-66
Description
Discusses the attitudes of the two European characters in the novel which allow them to appropriate some elements of Aboriginal culture while discarding those that they view as unimportant or that do not fit with their perceptions the "other". The author links this to the pitfalls associated with non-Aboriginal readers response to Aboriginal literature. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Moravian and Inuit Encounters: Transculturation of Landscapes and Material Culture in West Greenland

Alternate Title
Human Landscapes in the North: Papers in Honour of Dr. Priscilla Renouf
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Andreas Toft
Arctic, vol. 69, no. 5, Suppl. 1, 2016, p. article no. 4658
Description
Examined spatial data, objects, oral tradition, and written sources from sites at Uummannaq, Akunnaat (Lichtenfels), and Kangillermiut. Found that cultural exchange resulted in objects and practices that were composites of European and Inuit ideas and traditions.
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"More a Diplomatic Than a Esthetic Event": Canada, Brazil, and Cultural Brokering in the São Paulo Biennial and "Isumavut"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristy Robertson
Stephanie G. Anderson
Elizabeth Diggon
Ahlia Moussa
Sarah E.K. Smith
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 47, no. 2, Spring, 2013, pp. 60-88
Description
Examines the state of government relations between Canada and Brazil from 1950 to 2013, and how Inuit culture was brokered the relationship.
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More Like Ourselves: Indigenous Capitalism through Tourism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alexis Celeste Bunten
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 285-311
Description
Looks at the development of Indigenous businesses to achieve ethical, culturally appropriate, and successful Indigenous participation in tourism and the global economy.
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More Understanding in Policy Making

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sandy Toussaint
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, June 1982, pp. 14-18
Description
Examines the interaction of Western Australian Aboriginal people with government social services and health care providers.
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Morning Star Rises: Peace, Power, and Righteousness in the Face of Colonization

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leo Killsback
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 5-37
Description
Biographical essay reexamines the legacy of a nineteenth-century Cheyenne leader named Vóóhéhéve (Morning Star or Dull Knife); draws on statements from his family and community members to decolonize the historical narrative surrounding the chief.
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Mortality Comparisons of First Nations to All Other Manitobans: A Provincial Population-Based Look at Health Inequalities by Region and Gender

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia J. Martens
Doreen Sanderson
Laurel S. Jebamani
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. Supplement 1, Aboriginal Health Research and Policy: First Nations-University Collaboration in Manitoba, January/February 2005, pp. S33-S38
Description
Study conducted to compare premature mortality and potential years of life lost between the two groups. Entire issue on one pdf, To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kim McCaul
Aboriginal History, vol. 33, 2009, pp. 278-280
Description
Book review of: Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia edited by Katie Glaskin, Myrna Tonkinson, Yasmine Musharbash and Victoria Burbank. Review located by scrolling to page 278.
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“The Most Good to the Indians”: The Reverend James Nisbet and the Prince Albert Mission

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W.D. Smiley
Saskatchewan History, vol. 46, no. 2, Fall, 1994, pp. 34-47
Description
Describes the Reverend James Nisbet’s journey what in now Prince Albert, where he set up the mission and later founded the town, both by the same name. Details many of the different people and communities that Nibet was able to engage and form relationships with. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 34.
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