Mar 6, 2022
In which we discuss cultural practices that emerged in and about Plains Natives communities before, during, and after early colonization! Topics include powwows, the Ghost Dance, and Paul Kane.
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Sources/Further Reading:
- 1894 Sioux Ghost Dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tMXbxVTby8
- Axtmann, Ann. “Performative Power in Native America: Powwow Dancing.” Dance Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, Congress on Research in Dance, 2001, pp. 7–22, https://doi.org/10.2307/1478853.
- Corrigan, Samuel W. “The Plains Indian Powwow: Cultural Integration in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.” Anthropologica, vol. 12, no. 2, Canadian Anthropology Society, 1970, pp. 253–77, https://doi.org/10.2307/25604831.
- Ens, Gerhard J. "buffalo hunt." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Francis, Daniel. The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011.
- Milloy, John S. "Plains Aboriginals." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Paul Kane, Assiniboine Hunting Buffalo, https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/assiniboine-hunting-buffalo