GYAANGEE / MEDDLE Screening Resources
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Additional Resources
SITES
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is an award-winning visual contemporary artist, author and professional speaker. His work has been seen in public spaces, museums, galleries and private collections around the world.
Copper from the Hood - Fabricated from a car hood embellished with copper leaf, Copper from the Hood references the coppers which were a traditional sign of wealth amongst the Haida - the indigenous nation located off Canada's northwest coast - while locating the work within the contemporary context of a world where value is defined by cars and other consumer goods. Commissioned by The British Museum, this work presents imagery created in Yahgulanaas' distinctive Haida manga style and is one of a series of 15 works made with automobile hoods.
Robert Davidson - For more than fifty years now, Robert Davidson has worked as an artist and has produced an internationally acclaimed body of work. His work is found in a number of private and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of History in Hull, Quebec, the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. His Haida name is Guud Sans Glans which means "Eagle of the Dawn".
Charles Wilkinson - Charles Wilkinson is a Canadian filmmaker with a large body of documentary and dramatic film and television to his credit.
Council of the Haida Nation - The Council of the Haida Nation was formed in 1974 to organize citizens into one political entity. Part of the vision was a clear mandate to settle the land question.
Canadian First Nation Profiles - A collection of information that describes individual First Nation communities across Canada.
Haida Gwaii Singers Society - Co-founded in 1980 by Robert Davidson, the Haida Gwaii Singers Society celebrates and sustains the Songs of Haida Gwaii for this and future generations.
UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA) - The Museum of Anthropology was established in 1949 as a department within the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia. MOA is committed to promoting awareness and understanding of culturally diverse ways of knowing the world through challenging and innovative programs and partnerships with Indigenous, local and global communities.
Totem Poles - A guide to the history and meaning of indigenous totem poles, from the University of British Columbia.
RESOURCES
Art opens windows to the space between ourselves | TEDxVancouver - Haida Gwaii muralist and artist, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas reminds us that art opens all of us to the connections of life, the meaning of ourselves and the space between each other.
BOOKS
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Red: A Haida Manga, Douglas & McIntyre, 2014
Margaret B. Blackman and Florence Edenshaw Davidson, During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman, U. of Washington Press, 1992
Sara Florence Davidson, Robert Davidson, and Jo-ann Archibald, Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony, Portage & Main Press, 2018
Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, Out of Concealment: Supernatural Female Beings of Haida Gwaii, Heritage House, 2017
Ian M. Thom, Robert Davidson: Eagle of the Dawn, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1993
Hilary Stewart and Robert Davidson, Robert Davidson, Haida Printmaker, U. of Washington Press, 1980
Anne Trueblood Brodzky, ArtsCanada: Contingencies No. 248/249, Society for Art Publications, 1982
Karen Duffek and Robert Houle, Robert Davidson : The Abstract Edge, Museum of Anthropology at the U. of British Columbia, 2004
Robert Davidson and Patrick Cotter, Four Decades: An Innocent Gesture, Robert Davidson, 2009
Elizabeth May, Paradise Won: The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, Rocky Mountain Books, 2020
Charles Wilkinson, Peace Out: Adventures on the Road to Green Energy, Red Deer Press, 2015
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, U. Of Minnesota Press, 2013
Hugh Brody, Maps & Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier, Waveland Press Inc., 1997