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Understanding Place in Culture: Serigraphs and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Victoria Art Collections
Shelby Richardson
Description
Exhibition features 30 prints by seven Indigenous artists from the coastal areas of British Columbia: Francis Dick, Maynard Johnny Jr., Edward Joe, Stan Greene, Floyd Joseph, Tim Paul, and Joe David. Contains links to short biographies of artists, images of each artwork, brief bibliography and curatorial essay.
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University Offering New Options for Art Students

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barb Nahwegahbow
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 11, February 2013, p. 14
Description

Announces the Aboriginal Visual Culture Program which focuses on how to make art and the history of that process.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.14.

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Unreserved: The Work of Louie Gong: Educational Resource

Alternate Title
Docs for Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Description
Teacher's guide for use with documentary directed by Tracy Rector about the artist, activist and teacher who designs shoes, T-shirts and skateboard decks using Coast Salish artistic forms.
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Unsettling Scenes

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jon Dellandrea
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, pp. 32-35
Description
Chronicles the recently discovered artistic output of Canadian painter Francis Fitz Roy Dixon who created over seventy paintings of the Northwest Rebellion of 1885.
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The Uprising in the Northwest - Sketch. - 25 April 1885.

Documents & Presentations
Description
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.
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The Urewera Mural: Becoming Gift and the Hau of Disappearance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Isabel McIntosh
Cultural Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 1, March 2004, pp. 42-60
Description
Explains why Tuhoe activist Te Kaha in an act of cultural activism, took a painting by Colin McCahon from the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre in 1997 and then returned it in 1998.
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Various Elements

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kirsty Bell
Jimmie Durham
Frieze, no. 150, October 2012
Description
Interview with Jimmie Durham before the opening of his exhibition entitled A Matter of Life and Death and Singing at M HKA.
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Visioning Thanadelthur: Shaping a Canadian Icon

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia A. McCormack
Manitoba History, no. 55, June 2007, pp. [2-6]
Description
Looks at the history of Thanadelthur, a young Dene women who is famous for her involvement in the early Canadian fur trade, linking together the Hudson's Bay Company and northern Dene peoples living west of Hudson's Bay.
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[Visual Arts: Woodland Style Artwork]

Alternate Title
Learning Through the Arts
The Arts: Secondary Visual Arts
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Lakehead Public Schools?]
Description
Video records one class's experience with incorporating Aboriginal art and culture into the curriculum by utilizing community mentors and Elders. Duration: 17:00.
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A Visual Autobiography: The Self-Portraits of Carl Beam

Alternate Title
[First Nations, First Thoughts Conference]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Patricia Vervoort
Description
Investigates artist's re-creation of himself as role player and as citizen concerned with historical and current issues.
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A Walk in the Woods with Murv Jacobs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel C. Jackson
Murv Jacobs
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 4, Animal Studies, Winter, 2013, pp. 69-78
Description
Interview with the Cherokee artist. Entire issue on one pdf. To locate article, scroll to page 69.
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A Walker in this World: An Interview with Duane Slick

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larry Abbott
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1994, pp. 119-145
Description
Analyzes the work of Slick, a Mesquakie/Winnebago artist, and includes illustrations of his recent work.
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Wally Dion: Red Worker

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tania Willard
Brunt, no. 5, October 2009, pp. 8-14
Description
Comments on an exhibition at Grunt Gallery featuring a portrait series of Aboriginal people. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to page 8.
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Wandering Spirit

Images » Photographs
Description
Negative of a black and white sketch of a metis man on horseback, wearing traditional clothes, subtitled "Wandering Spirit".
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"Wandering Spirit"

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Gowanlock
Description
Portrait illustration of Wandering Spirit by Mrs. Gowanlock.
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War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indians War Prisoners; A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook From Fort Marion; Art From Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Richard Pearce
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 84-91
Description
Reviews of 3 books: War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indians War Prisoners by Brad D. Lookingbill. A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook From Fort Marion by Phillip Earenfight. Art From Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M. Szabo. Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll to page 84.
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Water Over the Bridge

Theses
Author/Creator
Corinna Michelle Wollf
Description
Art and Art History Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.
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"We All Stand Side by Side": An Interview With Elizabeth LaPensée

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanna Hearne
Elizabeth LaPensée
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 1, Digital Indigenous Studies: Gender, Genre, and New Media, Spring, 2017, pp. 27-37
Description
Interview with the artist who provided the cover art for this special issue on digital Indigenous studies.
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Well-Known Indian Artist Elected to R.C.A.A.

Alternate Title
Well Known Indian Artist Elected to RCAA
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian
Description
Alan Sapp, an artist from Red Pheasant First Nation in Saskatchewan was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCAA).
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What Are Our Expectations Telling Us?: Encounters with the NMAI

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwyneira Isaac
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 574-596
Description
Describes four viewpoints about the National Museum of the Native American (NMAI) garnered through two personal visits and the others through newspaper articles and discussions.
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White Cap, Sioux Chief

Images » Photographs
Description
Photo of illustration made from photograph of White Cap, Sioux Chief, pledging friendship to his white brother, taken from Illustrated War News, 25 April 1885.
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"The White Man's Fancy. The Red Man's Fact. Niagara Falls."

Images » Photographs
Description
Note: The title, description and image of this item uses wording and imagery that was common in mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. Two separate images of a woman, one white, one Aboriginal, in a waterfall. The white woman has wings and appears to represent Niagara's Maid of the Mist legend.
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Whose Nation? Two Recent Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Civilization Raised Disturbing Questions about the Positioning of First Nations Art in the White Mainstream

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Scott Watson
Canadian Art, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring, 1993, p. 34
Description
Discusses a controversial lesson in history through art, by presenting nstitutions devoted to nostalgic theme-park versions of history; the exhibit contrasts violence, defiance, racism, alienation and suicide with family harmony, friendship, creativity and work.
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William Barak and the Affirmation of Tradition

Alternate Title
Australia Adlib-Neighbours
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Herb Patten
Description
Brief description of William Barak's life and leadership at the Coranderrk settlement and his efforts to preserve aspects of Aboriginal tradition in his art.
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"Winnipeg Jack, Blackfoot, Canadian North-West."

Images » Photographs
Description
An image of an Aboriginal man standing alone. He is dressed in ceremonial clothing and holds a fan of feathers. There is a grouping of tipis in the distant background. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process. The postcard is addressed to Miss Dell Ashdown, Muskoka, Ontario.
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Woman with Kitten

Images » Photographs
Description
A woman (Christina Bateman?) and a kitten. Photograph taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
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