Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art

Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art brings new perspectives to historical and contemporary Aboriginal art.
To explore the diverse ways this art can be understood, the Glenbow Museum invited Aboriginal elders, leaders and artists to share their perspectives with non-Native museum staff. The resulting dialogue highlights the complexity of Aboriginal art from the northern plains to the subarctic regions of Canada.

Links to tradition, history and culture can be seen in artwork both old and new - from a lavishly beaded mossbag made in the 1890s, to a work created in 2006 by
chiseling, drilling, sanding and assembling circuit boards.

The breadth of Aboriginal art in this publication, lavishly documented in more than 65 full-colour photographs, honours the importance of community, the connection to land and place and the tradition of storytelling.

$34.95
ISBN 978-1-895379-58-7
8.5 x 11; 152 pages; 65+ colour photos; Paper

Nitsitapiisinni: The Story of the Blackfoot People

The Blackfoot people once dominated a vast region of the northwestern Plains, from the North Saskatchewan River to the Yellowstone River and from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the Great Sand Hills. They coexisted with all of Creation and developed one of the most complex social and ceremonial systems on the Plains. Nitsitapiisinni: The Story of the Blackfoot People explores these ecological, social, and ceremonial relationships. It also documents the drastic changes to this coexistence brought about by the arrival of Europeans. Written jointly by Blackfoot and Glenbow staff, this book offers a unique view of Blackfoot culture and history from the Blackfoot people who know and understand it.

$19.95
Softcover, colour and black & white images, 88 pages
ISBN 1-55263-363-2

Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America

This Museums West publication looks at the ways in which First Nations people have been portrayed by themselves and others from the early 1800s to the present. Paintings, sculptures, traditional native arts, and popular culture objects are used to both reveal and challenge popular assumptions about native North Americans. Museums West is a consortium of ten North American museums dedicated to the history, art, and culture of the West.

$42.00 SALE PRICE $19.95
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 0-295-97675-6

My Tribe the Crees

by Joseph F. Dion
The author, a Cree, tells of Cree customs, hunting, warfare, religion, and the impact of the white man.

$14.99
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 0919224067

I Walk in Two Worlds

by Eleanor Brass
The remarkable story of Eleanor Brass whose life and work have brought greater understanding of First Nations experiences in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

$14.95
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 0919224679

Indian Tribes of Alberta

by Hugh A. Dempsey
This reprint of the second edition has been thoroughly updated with many additions. A most important reference to the history of the Indians of Alberta, it contains maps of the distribution of tribes and reserves.

$12.95
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 0919224008

Reclaiming History: Ledger Drawings by the Assiniboine Artist Hoñgeeýesa

by Valerie Robertson
The enchanting drawings in this unique volume engage the viewer on several levels: they are evocative objects, pleasing in their simplicity of line, colour, and message, and they are a source of knowledge that expands with each viewing.

$14.95
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 895379067

Blackfoot Set: $14.95 (3 book package)

Blackfoot Ghost Dance
by Hugh A. Dempsey
Description of a religious ritual, its origin, and adaptation to reserve life.

Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 91922492X

Blackfoot Shaking Tent

by Claude E. Schaeffer
Accounts of clairvoyance and supernatural beliefs in Blackfoot rites, with comparative data from other tribes.

Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 919224768

A Blackfoot Winter Count

by Hugh A. Dempsey
A record of tribal events from 1810 to 1884 in southern Alberta and northern Montana, including battles, epidemics, and trade relations.

Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 91922475X

Treaty Days: Reflections of an Indian Commissioner

by William M. Graham
Working in the Department of Indian Affairs from 1885 to 1932, William Graham studied the culture and beliefs of the Cree, Assiniboine, and Sioux Indians, and he discusses reserves in a period when these peoples still retained many of their nomadic customs.

$9.95
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 0919224938

In Our Own Voices

Five individuals share their personal views and opinions on contemporary First Nations cultures, including the importance of their language in today's society and the future of their culture.

$19.95
VHS - NTSC 110