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Resistance

  • Algonquin - Barriere Lake
    Barriere Lake Algonquins are resisting the supplantation of their customary governing system, on their unceded territory, by Indian Act band elections imposed by Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl.
  • Anishnaabe - Asubpeeschoseewagong
    Anishnabe of Grassy Narrows First Nation in northeastern Ontario battle clearcut logging and the effects of colonial and industrial invasion of their homeland.
  • Beaver Lake Cree - northeastern Alberta
    "The Beaver Lake Cree, a small, impoverished band of 900 people in eastern Alberta, are suing the Canadian federal and Alberta provincial governments to protect the land. The tar sands are obliterating their traditional hunting and fishing lands in Alberta. The animals, fish, plants and medicine that sustain the Beaver Lake Cree are being destroyed."
  • Coastal First Nations - B.C.
    An alliance of British Columbian First Nations oppose the Enbridge Pipeline and excessive resource extraction in their traditional territories.
  • Gwich'in - Arctic National Wildlife Range
    "The Gwich’in people stand united in our continued efforts to protect the (caribou birthing grounds) from oil and gas development."
  • Gwich'in - Peel River
    "Mining interests are lobbying hard to open up the Peel River watershed to roads and industrial development. The Peel Watershed Planning Commission recommends protecting 80% of this wilderness. Affected First Nations are calling for protection of the entire watershed."
  • Lubicon Lake Cree - Little Buffalo
    The Lubicon Cree Nation is fighting the invasion of their unceded territory by colonial governments and resource extraction companies.
  • St'at'imc - Sutikalh
    The Sutikalh Camp is dedicated to the preservation of the pristine area of the Melvin Creek Valley, also known as Sutikalh or Winter Spirit. Members of the St'at'imc Nation established this permanent camp in 2000 to protest the proposed development of a 500 million dollar ski resort by Nancy Greene Raine and her husband Al Raine (NGR) in the Cayoosh Mountain Range.
  • Tsilhqot'in - Teztan Biny
    "Taseko Mines Ltd. is proposing to develop the Prosperity Mine, a massive open pit gold and copper mine, deep within the traditional territory of the Tsilhqot'in Nation. The proposed mine's two kilometer-wide open pit, tailings pond, waste rock piles, roads, and transmission lines would destroy an entire sub-alpine ecosystem, and most importantly Teztan Biny, a lake sacred to the Tsilhqot'in Nation, and known to others as Fish Lake."
  • Yup'ik - Bristol Bay, Alaska
    Native and non-native Alaskans oppose the proposed Pebble gold and copper mine in the headwaters of one of the most productive salmon spawning areas in North America.

Archives

Curriculum Vitae

 
Education:
1989 - 1993. Alberta College of Art, Diploma, Painting Major.
 
Selected Exhibitions:
2012 - NARRATIVE QUEST, Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Alberta.
2011 - NORTH, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
2011 - ASSAIL, FIGHT, PROTEST, SLAM, The New Gallery +15 Window Space, Calgary, Alberta.
2011 - NARRATIVE QUEST, Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery, Red Deer, Alberta.
2009 - NARRATIVE QUEST, Capital Arts Bldg, Edmonton, Alberta.
2008 - HONOURING TRADITION: Reframing Native Art, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
2005 - COLLECTIONS - FIRST NATIONS - CONNECTIONS, Red Deer & District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta.
2004 - VOICES OF OUR SPIRIT, Keyano Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, Alberta.
2002 - 2004. WESTERN PANIC!, AFA Traveling Exhibition, Alberta Society of Artists.
2002 - FIRST NATIONS ARTISTS OF ALBERTA, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta.
2001 - 2002. ORAL HISTORY, Crowsnest Pass Allied Arts Association, Frank Gallery, Frank, Alberta.
2001 - 2002. FIRST TWO OF TWENTY, Calgary Aboriginal Arts Awareness Society, F/N Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
2000 - 2001. ORAL HISTORY, McDougall Centre, Calgary, Alberta.
1999 - INDIAN WARS, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
1998 - LOOKING & SEEING, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
1998 - SPIRITS OF POWER ‘98, A-Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1997 - SPIRITS OF POWER, A-Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1996 - EARTH WALKERS, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, The Banff Centre Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
1993 - SEVEN LIFETIMES: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, Alberta.
 
Special Projects:
2010 Calgary Street Banner Project, Olympic Plaza.
 
Awards & Grants:
2005 VISUAL ARTS PROJECT GRANT, Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
2002, 2000, 1998 VISUAL ARTS, CREATION/PRODUCTION GRANTS FOR EMERGING ARTISTS, Canada Council for the Arts.
 
Public Collections:
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Provincial Collection , Edmonton, Alberta.
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
Indian Art Centre/ Department of Indian and Northern Development Art Collection, Ottawa, Ontario.
Red Deer Museum, Red Deer, Alberta.
 
Catalogues:
HONOURING TRADITION, Reframing Native Art, 2008 The Glenbow Museum.
SEVEN LIFETIMES: YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW, 1993 Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts.
 
Bibliography:
Collective experience, by Herman Pontes. 2005 Fast Forward Weekly, June 23, 2005.
Impressive Collection of Top Artists On Show, by Catherine McLaughlin. 2002 Alberta Sweetgrass Vol. 9, Issue 10.
Ongoing Indian Wars launch millenium, by Anne Severson. 1999 Fast Forward Weekly, September 1999.

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