topic:"Indigenous Artists" found 3 records - Research Collections

Abstract: The Indian cultures that once flourished in the Pacific Northwest left a magnificent legacy. Now, a distinguished photographer has sought out British Columbia's native artists in their own places, met them informally and recorded their rediscovery of the old skills. In over 200 perceptive photographs, Ulli Steltzer has captured ninety-three dedicated men and women as they carve silver, wood and argillite; prepare wood for weaving and knitting; dig roots and gather grasses for their baskets. There are glimpses of their studios, their homes, the countryside; and their words, to, are recorded. -- From back cover

Contents: Haida Carvers ; Haida Basket Weavers ; Kwagutl Carvers and Blanket Makers ; Weavers and Carvers of Vancouver Island's West Coast ; Cowichan Knitters and Salish Weavers ; Thompson, Mount Currie, and Coastal Basket Weavers ; Okanagan and Carrier Bead and Leather Workers, Carrier Birch Basket Makers ; Gitksan Carvers and Blanket Makers ; The Nass River, Stikine River, and Prince Rupert Carvers

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Subjects: Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Artists; Indigenous Art; culture; Cree

Abstract: Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships explains settler colonialism through the lens of economic exploitation, using Indigenous methodologies and critical approaches. What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo-pimâtisiwin, the good life, and specifically to good economic relations? Shalene Wuttunee Jobin draws on the knowledge systems of the nehiyawak (Plains Cree people) - whose distinctive principles and practices shape their economic behaviour - to make two central arguments. The first is that economic exploitation was the initial and most enduring relationship between newcomers and Indigenous peoples. The second is that Indigenous economic relationships are constitutive: connections to the land, water, and other human and nonhuman beings form who we are as individuals and as peoples. This groundbreaking study employs Cree narratives that draw from the past and move into the present to reveal previously overlooked Indigenous economic theories and relationships, and provides contemporary examples of nehiyawak renewing these relationships in resurgent ways. In the process, Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships offers tools that enable us to reimagine how we can aspire to the good life with all our relations. -- Provided by publisher

Contents: 1. Grounding methods -- 2. Grounding economic relationships -- 3. nehiyawak peoplehood and relationality -- 4. Canada's genisis story -- 5. Warnings of insatiable greed -- 6. Indigenous women's lands and bodies -- 7. Theorizing Cree economic and governing relationships -- 8. Colonial dissonance -- 9. Principles guiding Cree economic relationships -- 10. Renewed relationships through resurgent practices --11. Upholding relations.

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Subjects: Indigenous Art; Indigenous; Indigenous Artists; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Peoples; Media

Abstract: A timely and crucial collection of essays and conversations focused on Indigenous-settler cultural politics and the ethics of Indigenous representation in Canada’s media arts that explores issues of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance and decolonizing creative practices. -- Provided by publisher.

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