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Clever
You know, some people don’t think that political cartoons are worth very much consideration, but I think that if you can make a statement that packs a punch in a single panel, you’re doing something right.

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Carving of a Weber-style house by Malaya Pitsiulak (image courtesy of Arctic Adaptations).
Read “A Better Place to Skin a Seal” (April 2015) by Kyle Carsten Wyatt at thewalrus.ca.
Malaya, and five other Pangnirtung artists, have undertaken a project in which they’ve carved famous buildings in Nunavut to scale, as part of Canada’s submission for an international architecture exhibit tha debuted in Venice, Italy. Read more about the exhibit here:
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article_print/37219/
‘Terrance Houle is an interdisciplinary media artist and member of the blood tribe. He has traveled across North America participating in Powwow dancing and his native ceremonies. he works in a variety of mediums; performance, photography, video/film, music and painting. He also uses tools of mass dissemination such as billboards and buses.’
‘Many of Houle’s performances, it’s an absurd spectacle—a painfully deliberate cliché, plied with a knowing wink. To say that Houle’s work is centered on persistent stereotypes of Aboriginal representation goes beyond the obvious. His Calgary apartment is littered with every manner of Indian kitsch, including a Hiawatha doll on the mantle and a collection of steamy, trashy Western romance novels. In his Urban Indian series of photographs (2004) with Jarusha Brown, to pick just one example, Houle meanders through a quotidian routine—breakfast at a diner, grocery shopping, mundane office-drone chores in a cubicle—wearing full grassdance powwow regalia, headdress and all.
With his gleeful send-ups of rote Aboriginal representation—however mild, or hilarious—Houle joins generations of First Nations contemporary artists for whom the simplistic Indian identities fashioned by post-colonialism are a favorite target.
While Houle sketches colonialism’s master narratives—cowboys and Indians, modernity, and everything in between—in broad, bombastic strokes, his art is always, almost painfully, about himself. At once fearless, charismatic, tender and intimate—and, we mustn’t forget, uproariously funny—Houle’s work centers not on the desecrated, unspecific, victimized Other, but on the artist’s flabby, beer-drinking, pizza-eating single-dad Self.’
“We were the Native family,” he says. “Our identity was constantly being pointed out to us. But my folks always used humour to cushion the blow. We were taught at an early age not to put the barrier up, but to try to teach people who we are. I think that’s why, at an early age, I started getting into art.”
http://canadianart.ca/features/2011/09/15/terrance_houle/
A masterful description of Houle’s work.
Interesting to see the National Post picking up on things, “Six emerging Aboriginal artists in Canada who are inspiring change.”
Photo documentation from NDN Wars are Alive And… Well? (2010)
Performance by Aiyyana Maracle, 64 year old Haudenosaunee trans dyke performance artist. Site-specific performance in Sarnia, Ontario.
Artist statement:
The ndn wars: Canada’s Indigenous people remain resistant to the perpetuation of an unjust colonial relationship with ‘the Crown,’ and within Canadian society. The Crown, by its own actions and inactions more so than its words, continues to show its resistance to entering into a new era of an equitable, respectful, peaceful relationship between our cultures and peoples. Canada the meek; Canada, the world’s peacekeeper. Can there be peace in this world while this country remains so willing to, yet again, engage in violent repression of the Indigenous people of this land?
I recognize some of the flags shown here as that of the Two Row Wampum, also known at the Kaswhenta. It is a binding coventant analogous to a treaty that marks the agreed upon relationship between the Iroquois Nations and the European settlers; travelling the same river in separate canoes marked by the promise that neither will steer the other’s boat.

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MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection
MOONSHOT is an incredible 200 page collection of short stories from Indigenous creators across North America, in comic book form!
“Produced by AH Comics Inc. (Titan: An Alternate History, Delta, Hobson’s Gate, Jewish Comix Anthology) and edited by Hope Nicholson (Brok Windsor, Lost Heroes, Nelvana of the Northern Lights), MOONSHOT brings together dozens of creators from across North America to contribute comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis storytelling.
From traditional stories to exciting new visions of the future, this collection presents some of the finest comic book and graphic novel work in North America. MOONSHOT will be an incredible collection that will amaze, intrigue and entertain!
Here are some of the talented artists and writers who will be creating original stories for MOONSHOT:
Claude St-Aubin (R.E.B.E.L.S., Green Lantern, Captain Canuck), Jeffery Veregge (G.I. Joe, Judge Dredd), Stephen Gladue (MOONSHOT cover artist), Haiwei Hou (Two Brothers), Nicholas Burns (Arctic Comics, Curse of Chucky, Super Shamou), Scott B. Henderson (Man to Man, Tales from Big Spirit), Jon Proudstar (Tribal Force), George Freeman (Captain Canuck, Aquaman, Batman), and more!
MOONSHOT will be printed as a 200 page, full colour, high quality volume showcasing a wide variety of stories and artistic styles, highlighting the complex identity of indigenous culture from across North America. Most of the original stories created exclusively for this volume are between 5-10 pages, including pinup art and prose passages.
The traditional stories presented in MOONSHOT are with the permission from the elders in their respective communities, making this a truly genuine, never-before-seen publication!”
Check out their kickstarter
Now this is some light reading I could really sink my teeth into. Order an advance copy here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1350078939/moonshot-the-indigenous-comics-collection/posts/1107597
By Gregg Deal
Sometimes, some simple graphic art can pack a big punch.
Nicholas Galanin’s (Tlingit) ‘Things Are Looking Native, Native’s Looking Whiter’; a clever juxtaposition of Star Wars‘ Princess Leia, with what looks to be an old portrait of a traditionally dressed, indigenous women.
This hairstyle is called the squash blossom whorl, and it is actually an important symbol of identity among unmarried Hopi women.
Canadians of aboriginal ancestry - status, non-status, Inuit, or Métis - have the chance to take part in a contest until the end of March. The Aboriginal Arts & Stories contest, by Historica . . .
Aboriginal youth of Canada: if you are between the ages of 11 and 29, this is your chance to make it big and get your art out there! The Aboriginal Arts and Stories contest by Historica Canada is seeking submissions of art and writing until the end of March. The award is associated with a trip to the ceremony to accept the awards, as well as cash prize, so submit before the deadline on March 31, 2015!
Monte Cook Games Update:
Yesterday Monte Cook Games made THIS response to our petition. I merely call it a response because there was absolutely no hint of an apology. Monte Cook continues to do minimal efforts to pass as both respectful and professional. They continue to publish false information on their social media pages to control this conversation and use rhetoric in their statements for the sole purpose of defaming Native/NonNative voices who do not agree with their RPG game “The Strange” which includes the game at issue: “Thunder Plains” (pictures below).
The above images are comments which have been left on the petition. I think it’s extremely important to demonstrate that we are not the only ones who think this is offensive and also give some variations in our perspectives.
For those of you interested in learning more I would suggest the following links:
@MCSerf’s Critical Look at “Thunder Plains”
Cultural and Intellectual Property: It’s Not a Game, By Danielle Miller
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A prime example of co-optation and stereotyping in the interest of entertainment and frivolity.

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1491’s The Indian Store. I love it…especially the search for books part.
This is actually one of my favourite 1491 vids, and not just because Michael Horse (as seen on Twin Peaks and more recently Hell on Wheels) is in it. Also, did anyone else notice that he mentions anthropologist Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) when asking for good titles?
This is Northerners With Attitude’s Don’t Call Me Eskimo. It taps into the heart of hip-hop: namely, representing. Additionally, it tackles a number of stereotypes encountered by contemporary Inuit people. These guys have style; check it out.
Songhees artist and educator Butch Dick is the first First Nations elder to be formally recognized with a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to the art scene as well as his educational commitments and curriculum developments. On his work, Butch had this to say, “I look to teachings, to portray teachings in art,” he said. “In many ways, I feel like somebody is guiding me in the background.”
In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, I thought I’d share a link to a children’s book that came across my feed. The moving artwork above was executed by Cherokee-Swedish artist America Meredith.
From the Chocktaw Nation of Oklahoma website,
“A few years after this long, sad march [on the Trail of Tears], the Choctaws learned of people starving to death in Ireland. The Irish were dying because although there were other crops being grown in their country, all but the potato were marked for export by the British rulers. The Irish poor were not allowed any other sustenance than the potato, and from 1845-1849 this vegetable was diseased. Only sixteen years had passed since the Choctaws themselves had faced hunger and death on the first Trail of Tears, and a great empathy was felt when they heard such a similar story coming from across the ocean. Individuals made donations totaling $170 in 1847 to send to assist the Irish people. These noble Choctaw people, who had such meager resources, gave all they could on behalf of others in greater need.”
Read more at:
http://www.choctawnation.com/history/choctaw-nation-history/choctaws-helped-starving-irish-in-1847-this-act-shaped-tribal-culture/
This is the first article that popped up on google when I searched “Redskins Controversy.” I like how they included the video by The Daily Show/John Stewart.
I also think it’s interesting, and also depressing, that according to the poll on this page that 70% of voters don’t feel that the “Edmonton Eskimos” name offensive or an issue.
What do you think of the language used in the article?
What this article fails to mention is that the term Eskimo is a product of transracial misnaming -- it means “meat eater” and it’s a reference to savagery. Compare it to the term Inuit (which is what Inuit call themselves), which means simply “the people.” So the team name is offensive for a number of reasons (that are generally lost on the settler public): 1. Eskimo is a term that colonial peoples imposed on the Inuit that discredits them by emphasizing the “barbaric” practice of consuming raw meat. 2. Edmonton is not Inuit, so it cannot rightly claim a name that is more or less a racial slur. 3. Indigenous peoples are people and not mascots and any claims to the contrary are misguided, ignobled, and cruel.

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These dresses were among the other 100 hung around the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton and along Saskatchewan Drive as part of the REDress Project. The project, created by Jaime Black, a Métis artist from Winnipeg, is meant to draw attention to the high number of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in the country. - See more at: x