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Adjusting the lens : Indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25525
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 L62a
- Responsibility
- Edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- vi, 312 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams ; Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adentures in Sami Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen ; Negotiating Meaning: John Moller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Hovik ; Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigenous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers ; Distruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greehorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson ; "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sami Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola ; The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander People by Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham ; On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Chrisitne Sy ; Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sami Political Community by Laura Junka-Aikio ; Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye ; Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery of Sapmi - Becoming a Nation at the Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stein ; Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
- ISBN
- 9780774866613
- Accession Number
- P2022.04
- Call Number
- 07.2 L62a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Journey north : the Inuit Art Centre Project = Aullaaniq Ukiuqtaqtuq : Inuit Sabanguaganut Iglurjuaq Piliaksaq
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25677
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Borys, Stephen D.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Call Number
- 06 B65j
- Author
- Borys, Stephen D.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 285 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
- Subjects
- Art galleries
- culture
- Museum
- Inuit
- History-Canada
- Abstract
- To commemorate the official opening of the Inuit Art Centre, now named Qaumajuq, Winnipeg Art Gallery Director and CEO, Dr. Stephen Borys, set out to share the story of this extraordinary museum and building project. His book, Journey North: The Inuit Art Centre Project, traces the history of the centre beginning with the establishment of the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1912, when the foundation was laid to support a diverse and far-reaching mission that could embrace both historical and contemporary artmaking on national and international levels. By the time director Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt arrived at the gallery in 1953, and discovered Inuit stone carving at the Hudson's Bay Company department store located across the street from the WAG, the idea of assembling a collection to celebrate this Indigenous art form moved closer to reality. This account of the development of the Inuit Art Centre includes different historical and contemporary perspectives and voices through a compilation of texts and images. In addition to the key essay by the book's author Stephen Borys, several writers from across the country have shared their stories about the gallery, the Inuit art collection, and the building project. In addition to the essays and the architectural renderings of the Inuit Art Centre by Michael Maltzan, the book also includes: a selection of Arctic photographs taken by Hazel Mouzon Borys and Iwan Baan, a series of construction images by Winnipeg Free Press photographers Mike Sudoma and Mike Deal, and finished building photographs by Jacqueline Young. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Message from the title sponsor / Ernest Cholakis -- Foreword / Natan Obed -- Message from the Chair / Ernest Cholakis -- Acknowledgements / Stephen Borys -- Qaumajuq: a name for the Inuit Art Centre / Julia LaFreniere -- Introduction / Stephen Borys -- A journey north / Stephen Borys -- Midnight sunlight / Iwan Baan -- Reflections on a curatorial journey / Darlene Coward Wight -- Origins / Abraham Anghik Ruben -- Multiple visions, magnificent reality / Patricia Bovey -- A vault into visibility : personal reflections / Richard Yaffe -- Museum encounters of another kind : indigenous methodologies of collaboration lead the charge / Julie Nagam -- Selecting an architect for the Inuit Art Centre / George Baird -- Characteristics and context / Michael Malitzan -- Biindigin Biwaasaeyaah and Qaumajuq : conversations and collaborations towards a new Winnipeg Art Gallery / Heather Igloliorte and Julie Nagam -- Winnipeg : a new cultural capital for Inuit art / Pat Feheley -- Moments of kindness and reconciliation : a new understanding for Inuit culture / Barry Appleton -- Building photography -- Contributors.
- ISBN
- 9781773070032
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
- Call Number
- 06 B65j
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Upholding Indigenous economic relationships : nehiyawak narratives
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25716
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Wuttunee Jobin, Shalene
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 W96u
- Author
- Wuttunee Jobin, Shalene
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780774865104
- Accession Number
- P2023.11
- Call Number
- 07.2 W96u
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Unsettling Canadian art history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25727
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 06 M84u
- Responsibility
- Edited by Erin Morton
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xviii, 340 pages : illustrations (some in colour) ; 26 x 21 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- Art
- Colonialism
- History-Canada
- Race
- Abstract
- Rethinking visual and material histories of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized disapora in the contested white settler state of Canada Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, Unsettling Canadian Art History imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future. Unsettling Canadian Art History affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction: Unsetting Canadian art history / Erin Morton -- Part One: Unsettling settler methodologies, re-centring decolonial knowledge -- White settler tautologies and pioneer lies in Mi’km’ki / Travis Wysote and Erin Morton -- Notes to a nation: Teachings on land through the art of Norval Morrisseau / Carmen Robertson -- Embodying decolonial methodology: Building and sustaining critical relationality in the cultural sector / Leah Decter and Carla Taunton -- Silence as resistance: When silence is the only weapon you have left / Lindsay McIntyre -- Part Two: Excavating and creating decolonial archives -- Truth is no stranger to (para)fiction: Settlers, arrivants, and place in Iris Ha¨ussler’s He Named Her Amber, Camille Turner’s BlackGrange, and Robert Houle’s Garrison Creek Project / Mark A. Cheetham -- “Ran away from her Master…a Negroe Girl named Thursday”: Examining evidence of punishment, isolation, trauma, and illness in Nova Scotia and Quebec fugitive slave advertisements / Charmaine A. Nelson -- “Miner with a Heart of Gold”: Native North America, Vol.1 and the colonial excavation of authenticity / Henry Adam Svec -- Excavation: Memory work / Sylvia D. Hamilton -- Part Three: Reclaiming sexualities, tracing complicities -- Bear grease, whips, bodies, and breads: Community building and refusing trauma porn in Dayna Danger’s Embodied 2Spirit Arts Praxis / Dorian J. Fraser, Dayna Danger, and Adrienne Huard -- Coming out a l’oriental: Diasporic art and colonial wounds / Andrew Gayed -- Indian Americans engulfing “American Indian”: Marking the “Dot Indians” Indianess through genocide and casteism in diaspora / Shaista Patel.
- ISBN
- 9780228010982
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
- Call Number
- 06 M84u
- Collection
- Archives Library
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