Photography

Christina Bateman and Annie McKay leaving their first camp at Willie Bear's farm in the Sturgeon Valley (Sturgeon Lake) during their journey from Prince Albert to La Ronge, 1919.

Examines the exploitation and inaccurate interpretation of Native American photography by anthropologists and commercial photographers.

Discusses such issues as the neutrality of the archive given its mandate "to promote a sense of national unity", its representations of Aboriginal people, and current movement to repatriate images.

A set of 47 photographs on various aspects of life on the trapline.

Media Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2014.

A carved statue of the Lion of Kitwanga mounted on a platform; Kitwanga, BC.

Describes a multi-media museum exhibit that includes photography as well as undergarments hanging from the ceiling.

Honouring by poetry, and photo, Harry Whitehorse's wood effigy sculpture in Madison, Wisconsin.

A posed postcard image showing an Aboriginal man seated on a chair; a small girl stands on the man's knee and looks at the camera. The man is dressed in a suit and the girl is wearing ceremonial clothing with beads around her neck.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2011.

Book review of: Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska edited by Aron L. Crowell.

Photograph. On information card: Ten year old log cabin with extended tent porch in Chipewyan trappers camp. Dunvegan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.

Sled dogs outside a log cabin.

Image of guides (Adulphus Ross(?) and William Bird(?))paddling an elderly couple and two children on Long Lake.

An exterior photograph of Long Walk participants in front of the Saskatoon Correctional Centre on 16 August 1983. The man in the centre is Jake Badger (died in the mid-1980s) and the man in the wheelchair is elder Philip Nicotine.

Examines how Indian school photos of American Indians were used to manufacture images of acculturation and assimilation.

Focuses on Victor Msasyesva Jr. and his photographs.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1997.

Sepia portrait of Louis Riel.

79 images (11 scanned here) of the Louis Riel Day festivities in Saskatoon on July 9, 1978. They show people eating, racing canoes, running, firing guns and enjoying live music.

There are 28 photographs of the Louis Riel Race in Saskatoon. Pictures of people running, canoeing and doing various other activities in July, 1970. fifteen of these pictures were selected and scanned for the database.

Website makes accessible 570 objects, 2600 written documents, 500 black and white photographs and 8 sound recordings from the Shotridge collection featuring southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture.

Image of Lt. Arthur Howard posing with a Gatling gun, used in the Northwest Resistance.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2016.

A set of 61 photographs of Grace Ratt of Sucker River showing the making of a birch bark basket.

A set of 7 photographs of Napthelie McKenzie showing the making of a fish scoop used to lift pieces of fish from hot cooking water.

A set of 35 photos of Napthelie McKenzie and Jemima Charles showing the making of a child's fish skin rattle

A set of 12 photos showing Napthelie McKenzie splitting a log and making a paddle.

A set of 62 photographs of John and Mary Anne McKay making a tails game.

A set of 31 photos of Napthelie McKenzie and Lillian Charles showing the making of a tikunagun or cradleboard.

A set of 25 photographs of Jemima Charles and Lydia McKenzie showing the making of bannock in a pan. Bannock can be made quickly and is ideal for life in the bush as it needs no long rising time in a warm place like bread does.

A set of 23 photographs of Mary Anne McKay making bannock in the cabin on the family trapline. Bannock, a baking-powder bread, has been a staple food for people living in the bush for as long as the ingredients have been available - no domestic grains are indigenous to northern Saskatchewan. It can be mixed up anywhere, even in the mouth of a flour sack. It keeps very well, does not mould easily, tastes good, and is solid and nourishing.

A set of 21 photos of Napthelie McKenzie showing the making of bannock on a stick.

A set of 55 photos of Isaac Herman La Loche cutting down a birch tree and making boards that can be cut and shaped for use in making canoes, buildings, or snowshoes.

A set of 102 photos of Mary Eninew showing the making of birch syrup. In the spring when the sap begins to rise it is time to make birch syrup. Winter cabins are small and cramped and families often move out to a spring camp. The men and older boys would go hunting for fresh meat around the shore in a canoe, bringing back ducks, grouse, and small animals. The women and children would enjoy the freedom of being outside as they gathered birch sap and made syrup. The syrup will be a delicious treat on hot bannock!

A set of 85 photographs of Angus Tremblay making snowshoes in 1974. Travelling on the loose soft snow of the boreal forest would have been almost impossible without the development of snowshoes.

Photograph of a soapstone carving of a human figure and a polar bear.

Angus McKay (right) helps a man hauling freight adjust his pack sack. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

Man in canoe on water. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

File contains a photograph of an unidentified man receiving a plaque from an unidentified official at the grand opening of the District Chief's office in Prince Albert, SK on March 25, 1988.

Examines the inaccurate and stereotypical images at Indian Schools aimed at manufacturing images of acculturation and assimilation.

Book review of: The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis by Steadman Upham and Nat Zappia.

Book review of: The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis compiled by Steadman Upham and Nat Zappia. Scroll down to page 113 to read review.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nebraska, 2013.

Examines some photographers' motivations for doing photographs and the reactions of those being photographed, and argues that Natives Americans wish to preserve and interpret their own histories with photographs that illustrate all facets of their lives.

File contains 5 negatives of Mary Halkett receiving the title of Saskatchewan Indian Winter Games Princess on April 1, 1991.

History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2014.

Image of the John McNevin home at Clouston, Saskatchewan. On back of photo: "In March 1885, the John C. McNevin Family of Clouston, 10 miles south of Prince Albert, Sask., fled to P.A. and stayed the first night in the McDonald House, on the river bank, and later stayed some time in the stockade where one daughter Elizabeth Jane, was born April 25th, 1885. She later married Andrew Lawe on April 1st, 1909. Still living. She was baptized May 22nd, 1885 by Rev. J. Sinclair. John C. McNevin later homesteaded near Dalmeny, Sask., in 1902. Notice the Telegraph Pole and Line."

Photograph. On information card: Tipi like structure: "Tent used for smoking dry caribou meat" (Chipewyan-Dene). Dunvegan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.

Introduces the eight essays focused on scrutiny of the anthropology of all types of media-performance.