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Eight artists from across Canada create works identify varying forms of nationhood that either serve or detract from the concept of a national accord. Each artist explores the idea of ₃anthem₄ through a wide-angle lens, broadening the national discourse to include not only colonial histories, but also distinctive and multicultural liberties that take various forms: treaties, blood, languages, sexual orientation, faith, and oral traditions. The dynamic range of art works exhibited contribute to a more inclusive national narrative and expose and accept the diverse forms of nationalism that exist across the country.

Catalogue d'exposition avec des textes de Ryan Rice, Françoise Charron, Emily Falvey et Hilda Nicholae.

Le présent document est un rapport sur la série de consultations tenues en 2007 avec des artistes, des administrateurs des arts, des aînés, des jeunes et d’autres membres de la communauté autochtone. Cette série de consultations a eu lieu dans le cadre de l’initiative de recherche sur les arts autochtones, mise sur pied dans le but de planifier et d’entreprendre les travaux de recherche nécessaires pour appuyer et orienter le plan d’action sur les arts autochtones du Conseil des arts du Canada.

Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to these relationships. For researchers to be accountable to all our relations, we must make careful choices in our selection of topics, methods of data collection, forms of analysis and finally in the way we present information

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, from October 6, 2007, to April 27, 2008, and at the George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, in New York, New York, from May 26 through September 30, 2008

"Art of the Northwest Coast is a comprehensive survey of the Native arts of the Pacific Northwest Coast, spanning the region from Puget Sound to Alaska, and proceeding from prehistoric times to the present. Incorporating the region's social history with the observations of anthropologists, historians of art, and Native peoples, this rich, vibrant book reveals how a complex web of factors informed these groups' varied responses to the changes and challenges brought about by contact with Europeans."-

his thesis documents and explores community-based and socially engaged art by Indigenous women artists. Their artwork is impacting and strengthening communities in Manitoba. The Thesis explores the use of dialogical aesthetics in performance and socially-engaged art by Indigenous women artists in rural and remote areas of Manitoba, and relates these aesthetics to the concept of activism through their art and relationship to their community. The aim of this research and this paper is to document, support and expose the work of a small pocket of Indigenous women artists in Manitoba who are acting as activists or social change agents based on their artwork. I have arrived at this conclusion first by their personal testimonies, second, by their art being socially conscious and lastly, by their art practices entrenched in the framework of dialogical aesthetics, community-based and site-specific ideologies.

Indigenous peoples are making their own spaces online, using art as the backdrop for cross-cultural dialogue. Cyberspace—the websites, chat rooms, bulletin boards, virtual environments, and games that make up the internet—offers Aboriginal communities an unprecedented opportunity to assert control over how we represent ourselves to each other and to non-Aboriginals. This article introduces the concept of Aboriginally determined territories in cyberspace and discusses how these can be defined, maintained, and expanded. We will do this within the Canadian context, though much of the discussion is pertinent to Aboriginal communities in other parts of the world. We draw on lessons learned from creating and curating CyberPowWow, an Aboriginally determined online gallery, to propose Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, a series of initiatives to expand Aboriginal presence online. These include expanding CyberPowWow into an ongoing community of new media artists addressing Aboriginal issues; developing Skins, a project in which elders work with youth to explore tribal stories through the use of online virtual environments; and laying the foundations for Within Reservations, which will function as a blueprint for equipping Aboriginals for full participation in the ongoing revolution in networked information technologies.

Transference, Tradition, Technology explores Canadian Aboriginal new media and references the work of artists within a political, cultural and aesthetic milieu. The book constructs a Native art history relating to these disciplines, one that is grounded in the philosophical and cosmological foundations of Aboriginal concepts of community and identity within the rigour of contemporary arts discourse. Approachable in nature but scholarly in content, this book is the first of its kind. A text book for students and teachers of Canadian Aboriginal history and visual and media art, and a source for writers, scholars and historians, Transference, Tradition, Technology is co-produced with the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton; and Indigenous Media Arts Group, Vancouver.

« Tantôt présents ou documents figurés, tantôt considérés comme de la monnaie, les wampums sont des colliers de perles fabriquées de coquillages marins qui étaient utilisés par les Indiens du Nord-Est de l'Amérique et les Européens. Si des milliers de wampums sont cités dans les archives coloniales, peu d'entre eux sont parvenus jusqu'à nous et la tradition de leur échange a depuis longtemps cessé d'être pratiquée. Les wampums du Musée de la civilisation de Québec ont été acquis à la fin du XIXe siècle dans un contexte particulier où collectionneurs et numismates s'arrachaient les objets amérindiens et où ceux-ci, pour diverses raisons, acceptaient de s'en départir. Cette collection n'avait jamais été étudiée, ni par les historiens, ni par les ethnologues ou par les muséologues. Par un raisonnement critique, en avançant toujours avec prudence et sans jamais céder à la simplification, Jonathan C. Lainey soulève les difficultés et les problèmes reliés à leur étude et à leur interprétation. Il reconstitue méticuleusement les différentes étapes de la vie des objets, leur muséification et le sens qu'on peut leur donner aujourd'hui. Plus qu'une simple étude sur les wampums, cet ouvrage a le mérite de porter un regard sur certaines réalités historiques relatives à la culture matérielle d'un groupe amérindien de la région de Québec, les Hurons de Lorette. Ce sont le rapport à l'Autre, les processus d'appropriation et les transferts culturels qui sont abordés par l'étude de la transformation de l'usage des wampums, devenus aujourd'hui objets de musée. Reposant sur une ethnographie et une iconographie riches et détaillées, ce livre constitue une contribution importante aux études ethnohistoriques et aux études amérindiennes de l'Amérique du Nord-Est. »-- Résumé de l'éditeur.

Ainsi en fut-il de la restitution en août 1999 par le Royal Ontario Museum des ossements des quelque cinq cents ancêtres wendats, illégalement extirpés en 1947 de la fosse commune d'Ossosané par les anthropologues du Musée, ceux-ci ayant retracé le site du dernier grand festin collectif en Huronie en 1636 (alors décrit par le père Brébeuf), ce qui a donné lieu à la résurgence d'une nouvelle grande fête des Morts, célébrée de de manière privée par les quatre nations de la diaspora wendatte, sous les offices d'un chamane iroquois traditionnaliste parlant encore le huron ; - la réactivation de ces types de créations comme manifestation authentiquement artistique autochtone et surtout comme mécanismes culturels de transmission aux jeunes générations. Bien que l'habitation nomade de la tente, sous la forme de tipi, fût celle qui a été la plus diffusée médiatiquement (entendre le cinéma hollywoodien et les séries de télévision des cow-boys et des Indiens des années cinquante et soixante pour identifier ceux qu'on appelle, depuis l'erreur d'identification du continent par Christophe Colomb, les « Indiens »), sa stylisation par une découpe moderne se démarquait des nombreuses reproductions kitsch. La performance An Indian Act Shooting the Indian Act (1997) de l'artiste Lawrence Paul Xuweluptun, dont rendait compte une projection vidéo accompagnant son exposition « Coulour Zone », en avril 2000, au Centre Saydie Bronfman de Montréal, et l'installation multimédia Resig/Nation (1999) de l'artiste saulteux et métis Edward Poitras au Lieu, Centre en art actuel, à Québec à l'hiver 2000, étaient radicales

This book provides a glimpse of thirteenth-century life and death in a southern Ontario Iroquoian community. The renovation of a Toronto soccer field in 1997 resulted in the accidental discovery of an Iroquoian ossuary--a large pit containing the remains of at least 87 people. The pit was excavated and recorded, and the remains reburied in accordance with the wishes of the Six Nations Council of Oshweken. Scientific analyses of the bones resulted in a remarkably detailed demographic profile of the Moatfield people, along with indicators of their health and diet. The book reports these findings and includes a complete database of maps and profiles on an accompanying CD-ROM. Ronald F. Williamson is president of Archaeological Services Inc., Toronto. Susan Pfeiffer is professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto. Source: Publisher

In 1558, confronted by the differences in the ways Native peoples and Europeans perceived and structured their respective societies, Renais- sance travel writer Andre Thevet asserted that the indigenous popula- tions of North America, unlike Europeans, had neither religion, civility, nor books, and lived like 'beasts without reason' (Thevet [1558] 1878, 134-6). In 1603, writing of the Native groups he encountered, Samuel de Champlain remarked that since each person 'prayed in his heart just as he liked,' they in effect had 'no law among them and do not know what it is to worship God and pray to Him, living as they do like brute beasts' (Champlain 1922-36, 6: 52). In contrast, Native groups, although not always conciliatory, nonetheless sought out ways to incorporate Europeans into existing political and ideological structures, inviting Champlain, Jesuit missionaries, and others to come to live with them and to participate in their way of life (Dickason 1992, 103, 107).A funda- mental element of Rotinonhsyonni1 diplomacy was the political neces- sity to achieve integrations so that, at least ideologically, Europeans and Iroquoians could perceive themselves to be brothers, one and the same people (Jesuit Relations [1610-1791] 1896-1901 [hereafter JR] 27: 253- 61). When Jacques Cartier encountered the Montagnais-Naskapi in 1534, he remarked on their ease of manners in their coming 'freely on board our vessels as if they had been Frenchmen' (Cartier 1924, 76).

This book seeks to clarify postcolonial Indigenous thought beginning at the new millennium. It represents the voices of the first generation of global Indigenous scholars and converges those voices, their analyses, and their dreams of a decolonized world.

Sioui has produced a work not only of metahistory but of moral reflections. He contrasts Euroamerican ethnocentrism and feelings of racial superiority with the Amerindian belief in the "Great Circle of Life" and shows that human beings must establish intellectual and emotional connections with the entire living world if they hope to achieve abundance, quality, and peace for all. Sioui is proud to be a Huron and an Amerindian and is fully aware of the injustices that the aboriginal people of North America have suffered - and continue to suffer - at the hands of Euroamericans. He is convinced that the greatness of Amerindians does not lie only in the past but that Native peoples will play an even more important role in the future by providing ideas essential to creating aviable way of life for North America and the world. While this is a polemical work, Sioui never descends to recrimination or vituperative condemnation, even when that might seem justified. Instead, he has given us a polemic that is written at the level of philosophy.

Catalogue d'une exposition tenue à l'origine au "First People's Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization", prise en charge par Gerald McMaster. Publié avec le "Canadian Museum of Civilization

This volume makes available in English most of the essays written to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization's exhibition In the shadow of the sun. Not included from the original German publication are the exhibition catalogue section and the essays by Gisela Hoffmann, Bernadette Driscoll and Elizabeth McLuhan. However, Viviane Gray's article appears in this document for the first time. Complemented by images of contemporary Indian and Inuit art, the book provides an overview of the evolution of contemporary Canadian Native art. Regional styles as well as the styles of individual artists are discussed, and the various subjects, themes and techniques reflected in the works of art are examined

In Partial Recall, twelve Native American artists and writers look deep into the images that have shaped our ideas of "Indianness," and explore the complex relationship of photography to identity. For this volume, edited and introduced by Lucy Lippard, each contributor has chosen one or two photographs as the point of departure for their original poetic, historical, political, or autobiographical essays. With an additional portfolio of more than sixty photographs drawn from around the country, Partial Recall is a unique and valuable anthology.