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Results (59)

review essay

Bill Holm, Willie Seaweed and the Problem of Northwest Coast Indian “Art”

By Michael M. Ames

aboriginal art

aboriginal culture

northwest coast

BC Studies no. 64 Winter 1984-1985

review essay

A Weaving of Books; What Basket Have We Made?

By Roger Fernandes

aboriginal art

formline

northwest coast

public art

BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21

reflection

OBITUARY: William McLennan, 4 October 1948–3 July 2020, Curator Emeritus, Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver

By Anthony Alan Shelton

aboriginal art

Museum of Anthropology (UBC)

museums

William (Bill) McLennan

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020

this space here

Haida Emoji Project

By Jaalen Edenshaw

aboriginal art

Haida

myths and stories

myths and stories

social media

BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020

photo essay

TOWARDS AN ART HISTORY OF NORTHWEST COAST FIRST NATIONS: 1. “Traditional” Period (1770-1870)

By Ira Jacknis

aboriginal art

BC Studies no. 135 Autumn 2002

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New Media / Exhibition Review

Now Is the Time

By Kristin L. Dowell

aboriginal art

aboriginal rights

aboriginal self government

colonialism

Haida

Indigenous worlds

museums

repatriation

settler colonialism

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020

Cover Image: Now Is the Time

Review

Beyond Rights: The Nisga’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships

By Joshua Nichols

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022

Cover Image: Beyond Rights: The Nisga’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships

New Media / Exhibition Review

Screen Sovereignty: Indigenous Matriarch 4 Articulating the Future of Indigenous VR

By Courteney Morin

aboriginal art

new media

technology

virtual reality

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019

reflection

Anniversary Issue Reflections – New Media – Wrapped in the Cloud: An Interview with Meghann O’Brien and Conrad Sly

By Hannah Turner, Kate Hennessy, Meghann O'Brien, Conrad Sly

aboriginal art

new media

photography

weaving and spinning

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary

New Media / Exhibition Review

A Tradition of Evolution: The Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival

By Carleigh Baker

aboriginal art

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017

New Media / Exhibition Review

Pop Culture Confronts British Columbia’s Colonial History

By Erika Balcombe

BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017

New Media / Exhibition Review

In/consequential Relationships: Refusing Colonial Ethics of Engagement in Yuxweluptun’s Inherent Rights, Vision Rights

By Sarah King

Yuxweluptun, Lawrence Paul

Yuxweluptun, Lawrence Paul

Yuxweluptun, Lawrence Paul

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017

article

A Bibliography of the Arts and Crafts of Northwest Coast Indians

By Ian L. Bradley

aboriginal art

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

BC Studies no. 25 Spring 1975

article

Some Implications of Connoisseurship for Northwest Coast Art: A Review Article

By Marjorie M. Halpin

aboriginal art

northwest coast

BC Studies no. 37 Spring 1978

article

Totem Pole Restoration on the Skeena, 1925-30: An Early Exercise in Heritage Conservation

By David Darling, Douglas Cole

aboriginal art

heritage

Skeena River

BC Studies no. 47 Autumn 1980

Review

Song of the Earth: The Life of Alfred Joseph

By Tyler McCreary

BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019

Cover Image: Song of the Earth: The Life of Alfred Joseph

article

“Authenticity” and the Contemporary Northwest Coast Indian Art Market

By Karen Duffek

aboriginal art

aboriginal culture

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

northwest coast

BC Studies no. 57 Spring 1983

article

“A New Understanding of Things Indian”: George Raley’s Negotiation of the Residential School Experience

By Paige Raibmon

aboriginal art

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

Fraser Valley

religion

residential schools

residential schools

BC Studies no. 110 Summer 1996

article

Interview with Doreen Jensen

By Lynne Bell, Carol Williams

aboriginal art

women

BC Studies no. 115-116 Autumn-Winter 1997

Review

Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art

By Rob McMahon

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017

Review

The Grand Hall: First Peoples of Canada’s Northwest Coast

By Hannah Turner

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016

Review

The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown

By Patrick Dunae

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016

article

Make Yourself (Un)comfortable: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at the Museum

By Tania Willard and Karen Duffek

aboriginal art

formline

Lawrence Paul

Museum of Anthropology (UBC)

Yuxweluptun

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018

article

Survivance, Signs, and Media Art Histories: New Temporalities and Productive Tensions in Dana Claxton’s Made to Be Ready

By Julia Polyck-O'Neill

aboriginal art

Claxton, Dana

settler colonialism

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017

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