Paperback
978-1-55195-454-7Size: 9" x 9¼"
Pages: 192
Ancestors
Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada in Historic Photographs
Bruce Peel Special Collections
By Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, humour, artwork, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue.
Book details
Publication date: December 2021Features: Full colour, over 150 photographs
Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections
Keywords: Indigenous Peoples; Western Canada; Documentary Photography; Library Exhibitions; Critical Scholarship; First Nations; Commercial Photographs; Cree Nation; Blackfoot; Elders; Identifying People; Cultural Heritage; Prairie Provinces; Ancestors; Symbols; Stories; Colonialism; Historic Images
Subject(s): PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical, Art & Performance, Exhibition Catalogues, Indigenous Studies, History, Indigenous History, Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada / Documentary Photography / Library Exhibitions, Indigenous Peoples; Western Canada; Documentary Photography; Library Exhibitions; Critical Scholarship; First Nations; Commercial Photographs; Cree Nation; Blackfoot; Elders; Identifying People; Cultural Heritage; Prairie Provinces; Ancestors; Symbols; Stories; Colonialism; Historic Images, HISTORY / Canada / General, HISTORY / Native American, Exhibition Catalogues, Indigenous Authors, Indigenous Studies, Regional History, Canadian History, Photography, Photographs: collections, Indigenous peoples, Western Canada (BC, AB, SK, MB)
Publisher(s): Bruce Peel Special Collections
Book details
Publication date: December 2021Features: Full colour, over 150 photographs
Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections
Keywords: Indigenous Peoples; Western Canada; Documentary Photography; Library Exhibitions; Critical Scholarship; First Nations; Commercial Photographs; Cree Nation; Blackfoot; Elders; Identifying People; Cultural Heritage; Prairie Provinces; Ancestors; Symbols; Stories; Colonialism; Historic Images
Subject(s): PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical, Art & Performance, Exhibition Catalogues, Indigenous Studies, History, Indigenous History, Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada / Documentary Photography / Library Exhibitions, Indigenous Peoples; Western Canada; Documentary Photography; Library Exhibitions; Critical Scholarship; First Nations; Commercial Photographs; Cree Nation; Blackfoot; Elders; Identifying People; Cultural Heritage; Prairie Provinces; Ancestors; Symbols; Stories; Colonialism; Historic Images, HISTORY / Canada / General, HISTORY / Native American, Exhibition Catalogues, Indigenous Authors, Indigenous Studies, Regional History, Canadian History, Photography, Photographs: collections, Indigenous peoples, Western Canada (BC, AB, SK, MB)
Publisher(s): Bruce Peel Special Collections
Sarah Carter. Sarah Carter, FRSC, is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics and in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Originally from Saskatoon, she studied Canadian history at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Manitoba. In 2020, she was awarded the Killam Prize in the Humanities.
Inez Lightning. Osaw Piyesis Iskwew niya Anishinaabekwe. Wapamaskwa nicewakan. Paskwamostoosis awasis ekta ohcit. Maskwacis winowak nicaysinowak. Inez Lightning, Yellow Bird Woman, is Anishinaabe. White Bear is her husband. She is from the Buffalo Child family and of the Bearhills people.
"Who is the intended audience for Ancestors? Anyone with an interest in history and human rights, and photography." Felix Berry, Prairie History, Summer 2022
"The exhibit and book are inspirational university museum endeavors and will stimulate ongoing work with Indigenous topics and persons." C. Adrian Heidenreich, Billings Gazette, September 26, 2022
Margaret McWilliams Competition - Margaret McWilliams Award, Popular History Book, Canada
Winner
2022
UCDA Design Awards / Category 8: Exhibition Catalogue
Commended
2022
Sarah Carter. Sarah Carter, FRSC, is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics and in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Originally from Saskatoon, she studied Canadian history at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Manitoba. In 2020, she was awarded the Killam Prize in the Humanities.
Inez Lightning. Osaw Piyesis Iskwew niya Anishinaabekwe. Wapamaskwa nicewakan. Paskwamostoosis awasis ekta ohcit. Maskwacis winowak nicaysinowak. Inez Lightning, Yellow Bird Woman, is Anishinaabe. White Bear is her husband. She is from the Buffalo Child family and of the Bearhills people.
"Who is the intended audience for Ancestors? Anyone with an interest in history and human rights, and photography." Felix Berry, Prairie History, Summer 2022
"The exhibit and book are inspirational university museum endeavors and will stimulate ongoing work with Indigenous topics and persons." C. Adrian Heidenreich, Billings Gazette, September 26, 2022
Margaret McWilliams Competition - Margaret McWilliams Award, Popular History Book, Canada
Winner
2022
UCDA Design Awards / Category 8: Exhibition Catalogue
Commended
2022
