Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
- Call Number
- 07.2 C24a
- 07.2 C24a copy 2
- Responsibility
- Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
- Abstract
- This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, artwork, humour, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue. (Provided by Publisher)
- Contents
- Foreword / Chief Willie Littlechild ; The nature of the collection and its challenges ; Western Canada in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries ; The aims of the curators ; The Exhibition
- ISBN
- 9781551954547
- Accession Number
- P2022.05
- Call Number
- 07.2 C24a
- 07.2 C24a copy 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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