Drama

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2000.

Discusses Tomson Highway's Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing and Wendy Lill's Sisters.

Guide includes: synopses, production who's who, forms and facts, interviews with playwright/performers, themes, set design and extension activities.

Presents three plays and home movies. Duration: 1:38:47.

Includes curriculum connections, interview with playwright, and pre- and post-show questions and activities. Play is retelling of the story Jumping Mouse.

Presents a short play about language and imagination. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

[Theater] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arkansas, 2002.

Presents a screenplay by Gerald Vizenor that focuses on Harold and the Warriors of Orange, descendants of the great trickster. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Presents a performative text delivered by Michael Greyeyes as a keynote address given at Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context conference hosted by Wilfred Laurier University and York University, May, 2007.

English - Literary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Waterloo, 2009.

Discusses how theatre is a new approach for residential school survivors to come to terms with their past. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section. Duration: 5:36.

Presents a speech given at the Garma Festival of Traditional Culture in 2009 by singer, writer, director, Robyn Archer regarding the things she learned about indigenous Australian culture.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1993.

Discusses performances by Lorena Wolf who speaks about hundreds of women murdered in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico; Christi Belcourt's street performance Vigil and a community project representing and honouring the lives of missing and murdered women and children.

Provides historical background about issues relating to the play about the murdered and missing women from the "Highway of Tears", a section of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1998.

Art History, Visual Art and Theory Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2001.

Drama Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2000. Focuses on four playwrights Suzan-Lori Park, Daniel David Moses, and filmmakers Midi Onodera and Julie Dash.

Looks at how Taylor's plays mimic popular culture and how that mimicry produces a hybrid of the original.

Taylor talks about some of his characters in an interview, where he came from and how he got into theater. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 72.

Modern Language and Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1974.

Originally published by Talonbooks, 2006.

Discusses the misrepresentation of Native Americans in the entertainment industry.

Originally published by Talonbooks, 2004.

Comments on the historical perspective of identity in relation to the two plays.

Drama Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1999.

File contains 15 negatives showing people at the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre during its' twenty-fifth anniversary on June 16, 1988. The 15 scanned images show eleven negatives showing various people within the Friendship Centre building, and five negatives showing traditional dancers in front of the Prince Albert City Hall.

The program of the Indian Diamond Jubilee celebration commemorating the signing of Treaty no. 6 at Carlton, Saskatchewan, August 11 - 12, 1936. The ceremony was attended by Baron and Lady Tweedsmuir from England. There were hymns, songs by local bands, and several presentations to and by First Nations leaders. There was also a dramatic re-enactment of part of the treaty negotiations in which Chief Sam Swimmer, Chief Joseph Dreaver, Joseph Johnson, Norman Johnson, George Bird and Harry Dreaver all took part.

A play on an Indian family moving from the Reserve to an urban area by Eleanor May Brass.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

Describes how Indigenous actors "played Indian" for white audiences, blurring the boundary between real and characterizations of Indigenous peoples.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2012.

Discusses themes in the play Body Indian by Hanay Beiogamah.

Playwrighting Thesis (M.A.)--Queensland University of Technology, 2009.

Interview with Daniel David Moses to discuss the historical drama that recounts the survival of an Ojibway community that fled across the Canadian Shield, in 1649, in order to escape the Iroquois. Some critics call the play a Shakespearean adaptation, but the author prefers to classify it as being "influenced by Shakespeare".

Overview of the new course offered using performance training methods to teach Indigenous language skills at the University of Saskatchewan. Uses TPR, total physical response to teach Cree. Duration: 13:05.

For Access to Article, Scroll Down to Page 9. Comments on a study undertaken by Marie Clements, on behalf of the Theatre Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, which reviewed 10 years of financial support for Aboriginal theatre.

Examines the reasons why a western Canadian Fine Arts university professor was unable to convince members of his class to audition or act in a First Nations play.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.3.

Looks at oral history performance project called On the Wings of Waddaduga: Cherokee Two-Spirit Lives. Accompanying interview. Accompanying presentation.

Review of the play: The Berlin Blues by Drew Hayden Taylor.

Comments on how the expanding market in popular culture both furthered and muted the political and racial messages in the play by John Augustus Stone.

Interview with artistic director of Saskatchewan Native Theater Company. Program teaches students culture, life skills, career management and preforming arts. Duration: 13:17.

One of Canada's leading playwrights is interviewed about his career, which includes nearly 60 professional productions of his plays.

Interview with founding Artistic Director of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. Duration: 12:29.

Actress, writer and director discusses her work with the play The Conversion of Ka`ahumanu by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. Duration: 8:30.

Article investigates the politics of theatre translation in two plays: The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway, and Up the Ladder by Roger Bennett to determine how plays are altered for different audiences and cultures.