Whadoo tehmi / Long-ago people's packsack
Whadoo tehmi / Long-ago people's packsack

Author: Suzan Marie

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1772823066

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This richly illustrated book profiles the legacy and artistry of the traditional Dene babiche bag. Once a commonplace item in every Dene home, the art of the babiche bag—a netted bag made of caribou thong—was all but lost until the recent grassroots revival described in this book. Although intended for practical use, these bags were often beautifully decorated with porcupine quillwork, fringes and embroidery, as demonstrated in the book’s numerous photographs. Details of construction round out this fascinating look at an enduring craft, providing inspiration and instruction for scholars and artisans alike.

Museum Transformations
Museum Transformations

Author: Annie E. Coombes

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-11-19

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1119796601

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MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist and postcolonial theorists, and provided models for change to other types of museums and heritage sites. The volume's first set of essays discuss the role of the museum in the narration of difficult histories, and how altering the social attitudes and political structures that enable oppression requires the recognition of past histories of political and racial oppression and colonization in museums. Subsequent essays consider the museum's new roles in social action and discuss experimental projects that work to change power dynamics within institutions and leverage digital technology and new media.

The Idea of a Human Rights Museum
The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

Author: Karen Busby

Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press

Published: 2015-09-25

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0887554695

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"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and institutions elsewhere in the world that emphasize human rights and social justice. This collection brings together authors from diverse fields—law, cultural studies, museum studies, sociology, history, political science, and literature—to critically assess the potentials and pitfalls of human rights education through “ideas” museums. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the collection’s essays will encourage museum-goers to think more deeply about the content of human rights exhibits. The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first title in the University of Manitoba Press’s Human Rights and Social Justice Series. This series publishes work that explores the quest for social justice and the basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including civil, political, economic, social, collective, and cultural rights.

Drum Songs
Drum Songs

Author: Kerry Margaret Abel

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780773530034

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The Dene nation consists of twelve thousand people speaking five distinct languages spread over 1.8 million square kilometres in the Canadian subarctic. In the 1970s and 1980s, the campaign against the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, support for the leadership of Georges Erasmus in the Assembly of First Nations, and land claim negotiations put the Dene on the leading edge of Canada's native rights movement. Drum Songs reconstructs important moments in Dene history, offering a sympathetic treatment of their past, the impact of the fur trade, their interaction with Christian missionaries, and evolving relations with the Canadian federal government. Using a wide range of sources, including archival documents, oral testimony, archaeological findings, linguistic studies, and folk traditions, Kerry Abel shows that previous ethnocentric interpretations of Canadian history have been excessively narrow. She demonstrates that the Dene were able to maintain a sense of cultural distinctiveness in the face of overwhelming economic, political, and cultural pressures from European newcomers. Abel's classic text questions the standard perception that aboriginal peoples in Canada have been passive victims in the colonization process. A new introduction discusses Dene experience since the first edition of the book and suggests how the approach of scholars in this field is changing.

First Nations, Museums, Narrations
First Nations, Museums, Narrations

Author: Alison K. Brown

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0774827270

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When the Franklin Motor Expedition set out across the Canadian Prairies to collect First Nations artifacts, brutal assimilation policies threatened to decimate these cultures and extensive programs of ethnographic salvage were in place. Despite having only three members, the expedition amassed the largest single collection of Prairie heritage items currently housed in a British museum. Through the voices of descendants of the collectors and members of the affected First Nations, this book looks at the relationships between indigenous peoples and the museums that display their cultural artifacts, raising timely and essential questions about the role of collections in the twenty-first century.

Fascinating Challenges
Fascinating Challenges

Author: Judy Thompson

Publisher: Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Eight papers highlight the important role that comprehensive study of museum collections - in particular, the understanding of garment cuts and techniques of weaving, sewing and decorative work - can play in material culture studies. Three papers by individuals working in contemporary Aboriginal communities illustrate the value of this detailed information to those seeking to revive traditional skills.

Yeenoo Dài' K'è'tr'ijilkai' Ganagwaandaii
Yeenoo Dài' K'è'tr'ijilkai' Ganagwaandaii

Author: Judy Thompson

Publisher: Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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"Elegant, distinctively styled garments of white caribou hide once were a striking feature of Gwich'in culture. Clothing styles changed following contact with Europeans, however, and by the late nineteenth century low Gwich'in seamstresses made "old style" outfits. Within a few generations, as women no longer learned and passed on the skills involved, knowledge of this aspect of their culture was lost to the Gwich'in." "In February 2000, in partnership with the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC), the Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute initiated a project to "repatriate" the knowledge and skills involved in making a traditional summer clothing outfit through replication of a nineteenth century example from the CMC collection. More than forty seamstresses and many others in Gwich'in communities, and in the two museums, participated. Their work culminated in early 2003 with the completion of five beautiful reproduction outfits." "This book tells the story of this collaboration between two museums and the Gwich'in of Canada's Northwest Territories. It is richly illustrated - with historic and artifact photographs, garment pattern drawings, and images of the people, places and events central to the project. This will be a resource to all who are interested in Gwich'in cultural heritage."--BOOK JACKET.

Dene Spruce Root Basketry
Dene Spruce Root Basketry

Author: Suzan Marie

Publisher: Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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This richly illustrated book tells the story of this modern revival of a traditional skill, and of the museum collections that were essential to the process. Photographs of baskets collected in the 19th century and of those made recently are enhanced by a detailed description of the process involved in making a basket, from harvesting spruce roots to coiling technique. (Source : www.midwestls.com--Le 29 janvier 2003).