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Blanket toss under midnight sun : portraits of everyday life in eight Indigenous communities

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25259
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Seesequasis, Paul
Publisher
[Toronto] : Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Call Number
06.4 Se1b
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Author
Seesequasis, Paul
Responsibility
Paul Seesequasis
Publisher
[Toronto] : Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
179 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
History
History-Canada
Photography
Abstract
A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs--a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis's popular social media project. In 2015, writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis found himself grappling with the devastating findings of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on the residential school system. He sought understanding and inspiration in the stories of his mother, herself a residential school survivor. Gradually, Paul realized that another, mostly untold history existed alongside the official one: that of how Indigenous peoples and communities had held together during even the most difficult times. He embarked on a social media project to collect archival photos capturing everyday life in First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities from the 1920s through the 1970s. As he scoured archives and libraries, Paul uncovered a trove of candid images and began to post these on social media, where they sparked an extraordinary reaction. Friends and relatives of the individuals in the photographs commented online, and through this dialogue, rich histories came to light for the first time. Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun collects some of the most arresting images and stories from Paul's project. While many of the photographs live in public archives, most have never been shown to the people in the communities they represent. As such, Blanket Toss is not only an invaluable historical record, it is a meaningful act of reclamation, showing the ongoing resilience of Indigenous communities, past, present--and future. (from publisher's website)
Contents
Introduction -- Cape Dorset (Kinngait) -- Nunavik -- James Bay -- Hudson Bay Watershed -- Saskatchewan -- Montana and Alberta -- Northwest Territories -- Yukon Territory -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Photo credits.
ISBN
9781553797586
Accession Number
P2020.08
Call Number
06.4 Se1b
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
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Brushes with climate change - Rockies Repeat project explores the intersection between conservation, art, history, and culture

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25227
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2020
Author
Campbell, Brooke
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Campbell, Brooke
Responsibility
Brooke Campbell
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
p. 12 - 13
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Art
Art galleries
Artists
Women
First Nations
Climate
Climate change
Photography
Abstract
Pertains to the Rockies Repeat Project which involves a group of women travelling to specific locations and re-creating the paintings of Peter Whyte and Catharine Robb Whyte with the end result of creating a documentary, exhibition and digital storytelling capsule
Notes
In Canada's History, Vol. 101, No.2 (April-May)
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online
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Histories in relation : viewing archival photographs of Banff Indian Days with Stoney Nakoda Elders

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2068
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
February 2018
Author
Dubois, Dagny
Publisher
Athabasca University - Master of Arts - Integrated Studies
Call Number
07.2 Du85h
  1 website  
Author
Dubois, Dagny
Responsibility
Dagny Dubois
Publisher
Athabasca University - Master of Arts - Integrated Studies
Published Date
February 2018
Physical Description
38 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Photography
Abstract
In the archival record, photographs of Banff Indian Days have been framed primarily through a Settler lens. A more balanced approach to these images and the historical analysis of Settler-Indigenous relations during this event is needed. Using an interdisciplinary approach along the methodologies inspired by Indigenous epistemologies, I presented photographs of Banff Indian Days taken by Catharine and Peter WHyte in 1945-1955 to Stoney Nakoda Elders in a series of interviews. By employing the notion of photographs as 'relational objects' as outlined by scholars such as Elizabeth Edward, I seek to understand this concept of relationality and how it aligns with Stoney Nakoda perspectives. In this case study, the voices of Stoney Nakoda Elders, Catharine Whyte (via her written letters), and myself are included as a way to refram photographs of Banff Indian Days in a multivocal and multiperspectival way.
Contents
Introduction
The Stoney Nakoda
Banff Indian Days
Foundations - theoretical and methodological
Practical methodology
Catharine and Peter Whyte
Photographic encounter
Photographs as relational
Findings
Three photographs in detail
Conclusion
Figures
Primary Sources
Archival Sources
Works Cited
Accession Number
2019.09
Call Number
07.2 Du85h
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
PDF available online through Athabasca University Master of Arts - Integrated Studies
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Lanterns on the prairie : the Blackfeet photographs of Walter McClintock

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25239
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Grafe, Steven L.
Farr, William E.
Smith, Sherry L.
Robes Kipp, Darrell
Publisher
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,
Call Number
06.4 G75l
  1 website  
Author
Grafe, Steven L.
Farr, William E.
Smith, Sherry L.
Robes Kipp, Darrell
Responsibility
Steven L. Grafe
William E. Farr
Sherry L. Smith
Darrell Robes Kipp
Publisher
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
xi, 323 pages : illustrations (some color), maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Blackfoot
Photography
Abstract
Pertains to the photography of the Blackfeet Peoples by Walter McClintock in Montana in 1896
Contents
Acknowledgements
Editorial note
Chapter 1 - staging the Blackfeet: the curious career of Walter McClintock
Chapter 2 - a point of entry : the Blackfeet adoption of Walter McClintock
Chapter 3 - reimagining the Blackfee t: Walter McClintock in historical context
Chapter 4 - completing the circle
Chapter 5 - the McClintock photographs : content and technique
Plates
Notes
References
List of contributors
Index
ISBN
9780806140292
Accession Number
2021.08
Call Number
06.4 G75l
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Review of publication via University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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Rethinking Photographic Histories : Indigenous Representation in the Byron Harmon Collection

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2098
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Watson, Brittany
Publisher
Ottawa : Carlton University
Call Number
06.4 Wa33r
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Author
Watson, Brittany
Responsibility
Brittany Watson
Publisher
Ottawa : Carlton University
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
102 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Photography
Abstract
Collections of archival photographs have the capacity to provide multiple or alternative histories. In their photographic representations of Indigenous peoples, settler archives can provide a site for revealing the multilayered, fluid meanings. My case study is a group of early twentieth-century photographs (1903 - 1929) depicting members of the I~ya~he´ Nakoda First Nation from the Byron Harmon Photographic collection at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. By employing interdisciplinary methodologies with an overarching focus on writing the cultural biography of historical photographs, I perform a self-reflexive interrogation of this collection. I argue for a pluralized examination of historical photographs and photographic archives as a way to create new understandings of the past.
Contents
Abstract
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter One : Photographic Context and Byron Harmon
Chapter Two : Indigenous Context and I~ya~he´ Nakoda First Nation
Chapter Three : Reading the Photographs
Conclusions
Illustrations
Bibliography
Accession Number
2019.10
Call Number
06.4 Wa33r
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
PDF available online through Academia
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