paulseesequasis
Curator, writer, photography. Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun. People of the Watershed (one of ‘the 10 best things about visual arts in 2024’) - The Globe and Mail.
- Boy in cowboy hat with saddle. Photographed on the Rocky Boy Reservation, Montana, ca.1930s (unnamed) Montana State University-Northern
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- caused him to near lose it." - Wiki Villians
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- and one of the creepiest, Dr. Barry Mayfield
- Shoeing a horse at Banff Indian Days in 1955. 📷 Peter & Catharine Whyte | Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Collections
- ‘I'm just like Anne Frank, like Indiana Jones And them British bad boys, The Rolling Stones I go right to the edge, I go right to the end I go right where all things lost are made good again.’ music.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-e...
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- Oh, I'm good. outta here tonight.
- Winnipeg snapshots.
- Very sad news. Koyo Kouoh would have been the first African woman to curate the Venice Biennale.
- From Lisa Fontaine’s Winyan (Dakota word for “woman”) at The Winnipeg Art Gallery until June 8. ‘Fontaine’s work centers and celebrates the beauty of Indigenous femininities as a resistance to heteropatriarchal and colonial practices.’ Stunning works.
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- ‘Framing the Creator’s Game.’ In Praise of the Missing Image. Part of MOMENTA Biennale D’Art Contemporain, Sept 5-Oct 8, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Exhibition produced in partnership with OPTICA. momentabiennale.com/en/exhibit/i...
- Berens Falls, northern Ontario. Not far from where I am standing there is an archeological team racing against the clock. This has been a camp and portage site for Ojibwe of Pikangikum for thousand of years. In the next couple of years, as part of the massive ‘Ring of Fire’ mining project. A…
- road will reach here and a large bridge will cross the falls where I am standing. Large transports and equipment will cross here, and while this will connect this fly in community, it will forever alter this landscape. Seeing the falls this way will be a memory.
- Berens Falls
- sky & water The Whitefeather Forest is an Indigenous Cultural Landscape of Pikangikum people
- Pikangikum snapshots. 51°48′N 94°00′W Leica Sofort 2
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- Some of the student’s work from Eenchokay Birchstick School in Pikangikum. Including the first jingle dress made in Pikangikum. 📷 Eenchokay Birchstick School.
- Flying into Sandy Lake, Waabitigweyaang, birthplace of Indian Group of Seven artist Carl Ray (1943-1978), at 6’4” he was known locally as ‘Tall Straight Poplar.’ A shooting star, one of those brief flashes of brilliance in the infinite sky.
- Pikangikum bound. Pikangikum, in northwestern Ontario is also one of the last Native communities in North America with almost a 100% retention rate of Indigenous (Ojibway) language fluency, across generations.
- Reclaiming Alcatraz. Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA, during the Indians of All Tribes 1969 reclamation. (unnamed). 📷 © Stephen Shames | Polaris
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- Gladly. blackwing602.com/products/bla...
- Fresh pop (2023) | 🎨 Tarralik Duffy (Inuk) | © The artist
- Group portrait photographed at Beardy’s & Okemasis Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, around 1905. Standing: (L-R): Napoleon Sauve, John Seesequasis. Sitting: (L-R): Thomas Spence, William Spence (boy), Mary (née Seesequasis) Sauve, Annie Spence, Maggie Eyapaise.’ 📷 Unknown | Family Collection
- About to embark on their western Canada road trip, first, a self-portrait under the dock at Port Arthur, Ontario: Photographers and writers Anna Brown, Helen Salkeld, Audrey James and Rosemary Gilliat, in 1954. 📷 Rosemary Gilliat (1919-2004) | Library and Archives Canada
- “I wrote ‘Buffalo’ about trying to keep a relationship alive in a fast-paced modern world where love can feel like it’s on the endangered species list.” - Alynda Segarra music.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-Q...
- On photography: “Collaborators rather than mere models for the artist, Romero’s subjects actively shape their own representation and convey the power of artistic reclamation.” hyperallergic.com/1004284/cara...
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- …Portland Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe and the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.’ Thoughts to all the families impacted by the crash.
- Untitled. from the series ‘Indian Reserve: Iroquois Indians of New York State.’ Photographed by Milton Rogovin, from his Native American Series, circa 1970s. 📷 Milton Rogovin (1909-2011) | Buffalo State University
- ‘The photos of John Macfie provide a window into the everyday life of Anishinaabe, Cree and Anisininew communities of Northern Ontario in the 1950s.’ - People of the Watershed Ontario tour. Now at Temiskaming Art Gallery until May 30. Mary Jane Rae of Sandy Lake, 1958 | 📷 John Macfie
- ‘I could skate away’ 📷 © Norman Seeff | Joni
- Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter and Bob Dylan at Trenton State Prison in 1975. 📷 Ken Regan | The Rollong Thunder Revue. Bootleg Series Vol. 5
- A recent discussion on reframing archival photography and ancestral connections in a digital age in the latest BC Studies, Relational Technologies. Now available in print and online.
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- … I could never replicate Delacroix or Rubens exactly—and that was fine. It became more about orchestrating a team, like conducting a symphony, where every element works in harmony.” news.artnet.com/art-world/ke...
- Actor Vincent Price reads Native American student’s poetry in 1967 at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Price established the Vincent Price Awards in Creative Writing for Native students, a stipend that was in place until 1972. 📷 © Kay V. Wiest | IAIA Archives
- Tonight’s spin: self-described “doom rock Afro-soul big band with a ‘70s touch,” but also an imaginary western soundtrack to an imaginary western film I want to see.
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- only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.”
- Love to see these initiatives. Profs whose courses have been canceled by universities bowing to the Feds, starting their own courses. People of a certain age may recall the 70s, under Reagan, Thatcher, Mulroney and Pinochet, when free universities became a resistance thing. History is never linear.
- Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Winnie Bull with baby Elsie in a moss bag. Photographed on the Tsuutʼina Nation, Alberta in the 1920s by Arnold Lupson. 📷 Arnold Lupson | With Eagle Tail 1999
- “What we do now is important, whether or not it’s recognized or appreciated today. It will be appreciated. Eventually, we’ll be thankful for it.” - How Alaska Native youth are protecting the land for their future 📷 Mer Young | High Country News www.hcn.org/issues/how-a...
- Opens Tuesday. Next stop on the Ontario tour. Hope to see you in beautiful Temiskaming.
- Treasure from the music archives. Joni Mitchell’s 3LP 1976 U.S. Tour. A gem, both in sound and performance.
