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• Beau Dick

  Revolutionary Spirit

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  "Beau Dick" presents eighty of the artist's finest masks and contextualizes his work within the Kwakwaka'wakw tradition, while also showing how Dick incorporated contemporary Western influences.

• Bill Reid Collected

  Reid, Bill, 1920-1998

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  Featuring the largest chronological collection of memorable works of Reid's career in full-colour photographs and images to date.

• Dana Claxton

  Fringing the Cube

  Claxton, Dana,

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  Known for her expansive multidisciplinary approach to art making Vancouver-based Dana Claxton, who is Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), has investigated notions of Indigenous identity, beauty, gender and the body, as well as broader social and political…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dempsey Bob

  in His Own Voice

  Bob, Dempsey, 1948-

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  Based on the first full-scale solo museum exhibition and drawing from extensive interviews with the artist, this book presents the story of Dempsey Bob's life told his own way, including extensive and intimate reflections on the creation of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gulgáa Ísgyaan Gwáa.u

  Xaadsgyáahlaangee, Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson Gyáa Gyáat'ad

  Wilson, Hazel, 1941-2016,

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  An indepth look at ceremonial robes by the Haida artist Jut-Ke-Nay (The One People Speak Of) - also known as Hazel Anna Wilson - viewable in its entirety.

• Bead Talk

  Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetic From the Flatlands

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  In Bead Talk, editors Carmen Robertson, Judy Anderson, and Katherine Boyer gather conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, academics, and curators to illustrate the importance of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Early Days

  Indigenous Art From the McMichael

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  Under the editorial direction of Anishinaabe artist and scholar Bonnie Devine, this landmark publication brings together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

• Curve!

  Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast

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  An eighty-year overview of wood and argillite carving by Indigenous women artists on the Northwest Coast.

• Knowledge Within

  Treasures of the Northwest Coast

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  Looks into seventeen of the numerous sites in the Pacific Northwest region with major collections of Northwest Coast Indigenous material culture, bringing attention to a wide range of approaches to caring for and exhibiting such treasures.

• Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

  Unceded Territories

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  Impassioned in his commitment to advance First Nations rights to the land and effect change, Yuxweluptun fuses art with political action--he "paints freedom and equality".

• Listening to Our Ancestors

  the Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast

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  Sophisticated in conception and execution and rich with symbolism, the totem poles, painted housefronts, masks, dance regalia, feast bowls, and elaborately decorated boxes made by the native people of the North Pacific Coast have long been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Hands Remember

  Recovering Sanikiluaq Basket Sewing

  Lawrence, Margaret (Educator and artist),

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  Lawrence guides readers through creating their own grass baskets in the unique style of the Sanikiluaq region with step-by-step instructions and photographs.

• Qummut Qukiria!

  Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sâapmi : Mobilizing the Circumpolar North

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  Celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red

  a Haida Manga

  Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll

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  An innovation in contemporary storytelling from the creator of Haida Manga and the author of Flight of the Hummingbird; it consists of 108 pages of hand-painted illustrations, and when arranged the panels create a Haida formline image 13 feet long.

• S'abadeb

  The Gifts : Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists

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  S'abadeb-The Gifts brings together current scholarship with indigenous knowledge for the first time. Twelve essays examine how the history and culture of gifts are reflected in art.

• SakKijâjuk

  Art and Craft From Nunatsiavut

  Igloliorte, Heather, 1979-

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  Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut is the first major publication on the art…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sonny Assu

  a Selective History

  Assu, Sonny, 1975-

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  A stunning retrospective highlighting the playfulness, power, and subversive spirit of Northwest Coast Indigenous artist Sonny Assu.

• Wabanaki Modern

  the Artistic Legacy of the 1960s "Micmac Indian Craftsmen" = Wabanaki Kiskukewey : Natawitekemkewe'k Naqtmi'tipp 1960s "Mi'kmawe'k L'nu'k Natawiteka'tijik" = Wabanaki Moderne : L'ȟritage Artistique Des Micmac Indian Craftsmen Des Anňes 1960

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  The "Micmac Indian Craftsmen" of Elsipogtog (then known as Big Cove) rose to national prominence in the early 1960s....Now, for the first time, the story of this ground-breaking co-operative and their art is told in full.

• Wendat Women's Arts

  de Stecher, Annette W.

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  For centuries, women artists of the Wendat First Nation of Wendake in Québec have created artworks of intricate design and complex meaning in moosehair and quill embroidery....Breaking new ground in Indigenous art histories, Wendat Women's Arts is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Power Is

  Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art

  Duffek, Karen, 1956-

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  Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art brings together contemporary Indigenous knowledge holders with extraordinary works of historical Northwest Coast art that transcend the category of "art" or "artifact" and embody…Read moreRead more of this annotation