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
