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paul seesequasis@paulseesequasis.bsky.social |
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nîpisîhkopâwiyiniw. Writing, curation, research, color and light. Also Indigenous Archival Photo Project. paulseesequasis.substack.com/
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"What I love about art is that it is what I am. It makes my spirit and spiritual life complete. There isn't any other reason." - Alex Janvier (1935-2024) 📷 Wayne Cuddington | PostMedia
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High school graduate Emily Dingwall floats atop an iceberg in Churchill, Man. on July 7, 2024.
Story: winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/her-whole-fu...
📷 Brandy Bloxom Photography
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Two children with a litter of puppies and a dog shelter. Colour slide photographed at Loon Lake, Saskatchewan in 1943. (Children possibly from Makwa Sahgaiehcan Cree Nation). 📷 Everett Baker | Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society
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Family of eight (lithograph) | 🎨 Tim Pitsiulak (Inuk) 1967-2016 Private Collection
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Study for Section 103 (2) of the Indian Act- Detention 2023 (acrylic on panel) | 🎨 Kent Monkman (Cree) © Kent Monkman
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Rick Rubin’s ‘The Creative Act: A Way Of Being’ is full of such small gems.
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…Saskatchewan, at the time. 📷 Richard Johnston | Canadian Museum of History
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Early powwow Kodachrome slides photographed in 1956 or 1957. Likely Piapot First Nation or Qu’Appelle Valley. From the collection of Richard Johnston, ethnographer, who also made recordings of Elders and songs on the Piapot First Nation in southern…
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Trapping is more than being on the land, it’s also paperwork and accounting: Anisininew trappers meet to tally their winter counts at Deer Lake First Nation, Ontario in 1953. 📷 John Macfie | ‘People of the Watershed’ / © Macfie Estate
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Picking Seneca (acrylic on canvas) | 🎨 Allen Sapp (1928-2015) Cree Gonor Collection
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Maier's recognition was posthumous, only discovered at auction. “Many of her works were still undeveloped due to Maier's lack of funds, and little did the buyer know he had stumbled across what is now considered one of the greatest art finds in history.” apple.news/ANOTknJh3SCa...
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…Registered Nurse from the Royal Jubilee Hospital in 1945. Glenbow Archives
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…Nora Gladstone then went on to study as a registered nurse but was refused entrance to either Lethbridge and Calgary hospitals due to being a Status Indian. She was finally accepted by the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, B.C. Nora Gladstone graduated as a…
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…accept Indian students, Gladstone travelled to Saskatoon and enrolled in Bedford Road Collegiate High School. After graduating from Bedford Road she went to Toronto to train at the Canadian Mothercraft Well Baby Hospital where she received training for two years…
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Nora Baldwin (née Gladstone) 1920-2009 ~ (Kainai) From the Blood reserve, Nora Gladstone graduated from St. Paul's Anglican Residential School. She wanted to further her education but because Cardston refused to…
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…and, whatever deals were made in London, Tejonihokarawa was not a ‘King’ in the European sense of absolutism; he was deposed by Wolf Clan matrons in the winter of 1712-1713 for his dealings.
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…bargaining leverage with both colonial antagonists, the French and English, and both desiring their allyship.
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…belt are likely reasonably accurate, the American backdrop and wolf are imagined, wolves having been eradicated in the British isles for centuries. At the time the Haudenosaunee were the most important single Indigenous geopolitical entity in Eastern North America, with…
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Hendrick Tejonihokarawa (1660-1735) as painted by Dutch painter John Verelst in London during the ‘Four Mohawk Kings’ Haudenosaunee diplomatic visit to London and Queen Anne in 1710. Verelst added the wolf and imagined American backdrop, and while Hendrick’s attire and wampum…
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…Crows are feminist,” Red Star said. “And it’s like: no. Actually, we did have a chief system, and it can be very patriarchal on the reservation.”’ 📷 Apsáalooke Feminist #1 | © Wendy Red Star
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‘(Red Star) finds that indigenous concepts are often lost in translation, so that white audiences tend to conflate land stewardship for utopianism, and matrilineal traditions with western feminism. “They’re like:…
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Millie at the stream (oil on canvas) | 🎨 Arthur Shilling (1941-1986) Anishinaabe Private Collection
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Abraham Keeper of Pikangikum, Kenora District. Photographed in 1953. 📷 John Macfie | from ‘People of the Watershed’ (Figure.1 | McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
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Group of men, women and children, outside of a church at Aklavik, Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories. Photographed by Oxford anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood in 1952. (unnamed) Pitt Rivers Museum. University of Oxford
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Misshipeshoo,1969 (tempura on paper) | 🎨 Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007) Anishinaabe McMichael Canadian Art Collection
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“He very much captured the fact that this is not wilderness, or Terra Nullius, this is not new found land. This is land where people have lived for thousands of years…” ‘People of the Watershed’ (Figure.1|McMichael) on exhibit and at bookstores. www.figure1publishing.com/interview-pa...
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…and booked him on a 20-month European tour, where he went from ‘novelty runner,’ to winning races, to becoming the world record holder and also embroiled in betting scandals. 📷 George Newbold | © The Trustees of the British Museum
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Lewis Bennett (Deerfoot) 1830-1896, the Seneca runner poses for a portrait in London, England in 1861. As famous for his off the track behaviour and fashion as his running, Bennett won his first race in 1856 at the Erie County fair, his fame spread and an English sports promoter heard of Deerfoot…
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#BOTD, Apache artist Allan Houser (1914-1994). Sculpture: Rendezvous, 1981
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Cree/Métis photographer Murray Louis McKenzie (1927-2007). Photo taken in The Pas, Manitoba around 1962. #IndigenousHistoryMonth
📷 Richard Harrington | Library and Archives Canada
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Two men with braids and wearing sashes. Photographed near Waterhen Lake, Saskatchewan in 1925. (Silver salts and coloured ink on glass). Unnamed. #IndigenousHistoryMonth
📷 Frank Crean | McCord Stewart Museum Archives
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…were taken to Chief Poundmaker’s grave just outside of Cut Knife, Sask.
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© Saskatchewan Archeological Society
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…Saskatchewan River in 1967 and the formation of Lake Diefenbaker. Pieces of the rock were retrieved for a cairn at Elbow, Sask., marking tribute to the Plains Cree culture associated with the rock. Other remnants of Buffalo Child Stone…
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Gathering at Buffalo Child Stone (Mistasiniy), a 400-tonne glacial boulder and sacred site, in 1966. Elder Wilfred Tootoosis in background with headdress. In December, 1966 it was dynamited by the Saskatchewan government prior to the damming of the South Society…
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Tlicho Elder Alexis Arrowmaker in a jacket made for him by Francis Richardson. Photographed in Behchokǫ̀, NWT in 1975. In 1991, the Tlicho Land Claim negotiating team chose Arrowmaker as their special advisor. #IndigenousHistoryMonth
📷 R.J. Richardson | NWT Archives
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Arqavitturq (etching and aquatint) | 🎨 Tim Pitsiulak (Inuk) 1967-2016 Private Collection
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Cree artist Angelique Merasty (1924-1996), practicing birch bark biting with her mother Susan Ballantyne at Amisk Lake, Saskatchewan around 1960. #IndigenousHistoryMonth
📷 Tom Dobson
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Activist Buddy Sault of Thunder Bay confronts Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chrétien during the White Paper days in 1969.
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📷 Franz Meier | Globe and Mail Archives
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Fanny Tom, George Sydney and Angela Tom with the ‘28 Chevy of Tlingit photographer and businessman George Johnston’s Taxi Service in Teslin, Yukon. Photographed in 1944. #IndigenousHistoryMonth
📷 George Johnston | George Johnston Museum
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“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.” ― Werner Herzog
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San Carlos Apache girls. Photographed on the San Carlos Reservation in 2008. #RezRules
📷 Gregory Bojorquez | Galerie Bene Taschen
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Kahnawà:ke lacrosse player Atonwa Sekanennowhen (Thomas Ross). Photographed in a Montreal studio in 1876. #IndigenousHistoryMonth
📷 William Notman | McCord Stewart Museum Archives
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Artist Daphne Odjig on Manitoulin Island in 1975. One of the original members of the ‘Indian Group of Seven.’ #IndigenousHistoryMonth
📷 National Gallery of Canada Archives
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“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” ― Werner Herzog
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Studio portrait taken in Calgary, Alberta in 1912: (L-R) Anthony Dodging Horse; George Big Plume; Frank One Spot; and Pat Dodging Horse. All from Tsuut’ina Nation.
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📷 Brewer Studio | Glenbow Archives
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“Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.” - Maria Tallchief 📷 Milton Greene | Milton Greene Estate
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Self-portrait by Inuuk photographers Aggeok and Peter Pitseolak. Photographed on Baffin Island in the late 1940s.
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📷 Pitseolak | Canadian Museum of History
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Walking Buffalo (George McLean) age 92, near Morley, Alberta in 1962. “Did you know that trees talk? Well, they do. They talk to each other, and they'll talk to you if you only listen. I have learned a lot from trees.”
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📷 Rosemary Gilliat | Library and Archives Canada
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Jimi Hendrix. 34 Montagu Square, London, 1967. 📷 Petra Niemeier
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Sahtú Dene leader Paul Wright (1921-1999). Photographed at Délįne, NWT in the mid-1950s. #IndigenousHistoryMonth
📷 Bernard Brown | Canadian Museum of History Collection
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