ARTS ONE THE IMAGINARY INDIAN

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ARTS ONE THE IMAGINARY INDIAN

• THE COMPOSITION OF ABSENCE
• Arts One First nations
• Fall 2007 lecture

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Daniel Francis Imaginary Indian

• Born in Van.
• BA fr. UBC 1969
• MA in Canadian
• Studies fr. Carleton 1975
• Prolific writer/widely published Social Studies
  texts

• Awards
• Haig Brown Regional Prize 2001
• Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice Award 2001
• City of Vancouver Book Award 2004

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Tabula Rasa
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Welcome to Francis Gallery of Indians

• Missionary Image-MakersAlways come out on top
• Red-Coats RedskinsAny Which Way You Read
  ItIts Red
• Performing IndiansHow Does an Indian Act?
• Celebrity Indians Plastic Shamans or These Guys
  are Giving Us a Bad Name
• The Bureaucrats IndianThe Indian Was Always
  Given a Fair ShakeBy the Neck

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The Vanishing Indian or the Composition of
Absence

• Elements of composition in a frame
• Contrast between light dark (dom. subsidiary)
• Line
• Color
• Texture

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Archie (Grey Owl) Belaney

• Growing up on a diet of Karl May Indian
  novelsthe young Belaney lived his dream and shed
  the civilized starch of his boyhood to don the
  buckskin of Grey Owl

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Buffalo Bills Wild West Show Comes to Hastings

• Indians of the type familiarized by the
  illustrations
• Which grace the covers of the penny blood and
  thunder
• Publications, Mexican cowboys, handy-men, and
  cavalry
• Of many nations, herded together in orderly
  confusion
• If such a term is permissible and the
  demonstrations they gave of feats of
  horsemanship, sharp-shooting,
• Lassoing, and other accomplishments born of long
  practice
• In far parts of the world were indeed a
  revelation
• Hastings Observer, August 22, 1903

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Buffalo Bill cont

• Archie made sure he was first in line
• He had arranged to go with his friend McCormick
• But all day he could hardly keep himself still
• Five hours to show time he was itching to go
• Finally he couldnt stand it any longer
• He would go on ahead and hold seats.
• When McCormick arrived he spotted Archie
• Talking to one of the Red Indians
• To see them chatting, one would have thought they
  were mates, or better yet, brothers. Blood
  brothers! You know
• like in the westerns.

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Pontiac An Industrial Age Icon
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