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Quarantine Zone

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jace Weaver
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall, 2016, pp. 127-129
Book review of Quarantine Zone by Daniel H. Wilson
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Rabbits and Flying Warriors: The Postindian Imagery of Jim Denomie

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Martínez
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, pp. 119-145
Discusses the metaphorical surrealism in Jim Denomie paintings showing historical and contemporary events in American and Native American history, as well as aspects of pop-culture, art history and Anglo-Indian relations.
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Racism, Nationalism, and Nostalgia in Cowboy Art

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Gray Sweeney
The Oxford Art Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, 1992, pp. 67-80
Interprets cowboy art form from the western United States and suggests why these paintings continue to have loyal audiences for the past century.
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Rainmaking, Mandan - Poster.

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
George Catlin
Reprint of George Catlin oil on paper showing a Mandan male, standing on a circular house structure, holding a drum and pointing a bow at the sky. He is surrounded by a group of onlookers.

Historical note:

George Catlin (b. 26 July 1796 - d. 23 December 1872) was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.
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Rance Hood: Mystic Painter

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Patricia A. Etter
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 121-122
Book review of: Rance Hood: Mystic Painter by James J. Hester and Rance Hood.
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“Rather Unusual Stuff”: Nathan Jackson's Early Advent of a Tlingit Modern

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher T. Green
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 300-326
Article considers the early work of Nathan Jackson and discusses the ways that his paintings, prints, and textile works blend traditional Tlingit designs, patterns, and colour schemes with modernist elements.
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"Reading" Rock Art: One Sense/Many Senses

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Wendy Wickwire
Michael M'Gonigle
BC Studies, no. 108, Winter, 1995, pp. 75-93
Review essay of, They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever: Rock Writings in the Stein River Balley of British Columbia by Annie York, Richard Daly and Chris Arnett.
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Reclaiming Aborigeneity: Richard Bell

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Aisha Farley
Agnes Portalewska
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, The Interconnectedness of Languages, Rivers, and Forests, Winter, December 2011, p. [?]
Artist and political activist discusses his controversial paintings which expose crucial issues such as discrimination and racism.
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Reconsidering Emily Carr

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Marilyn Baker
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 39, no. 1/2, 2007, pp. 219-224
Reviews 3 books: Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr by Gerta Moray. Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas edited by Donald Ellis. Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon Charles C.Hill, Johanne Lamoureux, Ian M. Thom, curators ; essays by Jay Steward and Peter Macnair ... [et al.]
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[Red: A Haida Manga]

Alternate Title
[Robson Reading Series]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michael Yahgulanaas
Question and answer period with the artist who combines Haida artist conventions with Japanese animation and Chinese brush-painting techniques to tell traditional stories. Duration: 46:15.
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Red Pheasant

Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Portrait sketch of Red Pheasant. Caption: "In 1878 Red Pheasant selected a reserve in the Eagle Hills, south of the territorial capital at Battleford, Saskatchewan. From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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Red River Cart at Calgary

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
E. Roper
Photograph of a painting. Images depicts Indigenous man in European dress with family in Red River Cart passing by man and woman in traditional dress. The caption on back reads: "'Savage' and 'Civilised' Indians meeting."

Historical note:

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Regional Differences in Plains Indian Painting

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Jane Schneider
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 3, Summer, 1982, pp. 131-145
Discusses stylistic variations in southern and central U.S., as well as Canadian plains, art.
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Remediating the “Famous Indian Artist”: Native Aesthetics beyond Tourism and Tragedy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joshua Miner
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer, 2018, pp. 79-105
Describes the varying themes, aesthetics, and influencing factors at play in “Native” or “Indian” art and how those issues are discussed in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water, Eddie Chuculate's Cheyenne Madonna, Gerald Vizenor's Shrouds of White Earth, and Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag.
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Remix: Artists in Conversation

Alternate Title
AGO Podcasts
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Kent Monkman
Franco Mondini-Ruiz
Gerald McMaster
Richard Hill
Franco Mondini-Ruiz and Kent Monkman discuss their work; presented in conjunction with the exhibition Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World. Duration: 1:09:06.
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Representation as Colonial Rhetoric: The Image of 'the Native' and 'the habitant' in the Formation of Colonial Identities in Early Nineteenth-Century Lower Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gillian Poulter
Journal of Canadian Art History, vol. 16, no. 1, 1994, pp. 10-29
Comments on paintings that juxtapose 'primitive' against 'civilized'. A summary in French follows the article. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 10.
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The Representation of First Nations Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Naohiro Nakamura
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 45-46, Francophonies, Interculturality, Cultures and Strategies , 2012, pp. 417-440
Uses the institution as an example of changes in museums' attitudes towards, and collection policies for, works by Aboriginals; from exclusion, to increased acquisition and more frequent exhibition.
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Reservation X: The Power of Place

Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
John Dwight
Exhibit held at the National Museum of the American Indian. Curated by Gerald McMaster and co-curated by Arthur Renwick. Features works by: Marianne Nicolson, Shelley Niro, Mateo Romero, Nora Naranjo-Morse, C. Maxx Stevens, Jolene Rickard and Mary Longman.
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Reserving Identities

Alternate Title
Asha Reports
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Asha Siad
Levi First Charger
Casey Eagle Speaker
Kristy North Peigan
Carissa Auger
Looks at the challenges faced by Aboriginal youth who are trying to find a balance between maintaining cultural roots and living in the mainstream world. Duration: 31:30.
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Residency with Gallery Gachet 2008

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tania Willard
West Coast Line #74, vol. 46, no. 2, Reconcile This!, Summer, 2012, pp. 23-26
Three works that deal with issues associated with residential schools. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
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Rethinking Image and Narrative at the Heart of Empire: Notes from Indigenous London

Alternate Title
Frank Davis Memorial Lectures 2018
Art History: Decentred Recentred
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Coll Thrush

Presenter discusses how there has been a record of an Indigenous travelers to London dating as far back as 1502, which debunks the common attitude that Indigenous peoples and urbanity and modernity are mutually exclusive.

Duration: 48:36

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Return of the Buffalo - Poster. - nd.

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Lloyd N. Pinay
Poster of print of painting by Lloyd Pinay, showing an Aboriginal man holding a buffalo skull over his head, with abstract buffalo surrounding the man.
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Revealing Blue on the Northern Northwest Coast

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melonie Ancheta
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-30
Author examines the use of color by the Haida and Tlingit nations; discusses the cultural significance of the colors used, and the components of and technologies for creating the pigments.
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