paul seesequasis

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nîpisîhkopâwiyiniw. Writing, curation, research, color and light. Also Indigenous Archival Photo Project. https://paulseesequasis.substack.com/
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Family of eight (lithograph) | 🎨 Tim Pitsiulak (Inuk) 1967-2016 Private Collection

Study for Section 103 (2) of the Indian Act- Detention 2023 (acrylic on panel) | 🎨 Kent Monkman (Cree) © Kent Monkman

Rick Rubin’s ‘The Creative Act: A Way Of Being’ is full of such small gems.

Early powwow Kodachrome slides photographed in 1956 or 1957. Likely Piapot First Nation or Qu’Appelle Valley. From the collection of Richard Johnston, ethnographer, who also made recordings of Elders and songs on the Piapot First Nation in southern…

Trapping is more than being on the land, it’s also paperwork and accounting: Anisininew trappers meet to tally their winter counts at Deer Lake First Nation, Ontario in 1953. 📷 John Macfie | ‘People of the Watershed’ / © Macfie Estate

Picking Seneca (acrylic on canvas) | 🎨 Allen Sapp (1928-2015) Cree Gonor Collection

Maier's recognition was posthumous, only discovered at auction. “Many of her works were still undeveloped due to Maier's lack of funds, and little did the buyer know he had stumbled across what is now considered one of the greatest art finds in history.” apple.news/ANOTknJh3SCa...

First major Vivian Maier retrospective opens in her hometown of New Yorkapple.news The work of Vivian Maier is being displayed in a major retrospective exhibition at Fotografiska, New York

Nora Baldwin (née Gladstone) 1920-2009 ~ (Kainai) From the Blood reserve, Nora Gladstone graduated from St. Paul's Anglican Residential School. She wanted to further her education but because Cardston refused to…

Hendrick Tejonihokarawa (1660-1735) as painted by Dutch painter John Verelst in London during the ‘Four Mohawk Kings’ Haudenosaunee diplomatic visit to London and Queen Anne in 1710. Verelst added the wolf and imagined American backdrop, and while Hendrick’s attire and wampum…

‘(Red Star) finds that indigenous concepts are often lost in translation, so that white audiences tend to conflate land stewardship for utopianism, and matrilineal traditions with western feminism. “They’re like:…

Millie at the stream (oil on canvas) | 🎨 Arthur Shilling (1941-1986) Anishinaabe Private Collection

Abraham Keeper of Pikangikum, Kenora District. Photographed in 1953. 📷 John Macfie | from ‘People of the Watershed’ (Figure.1 | McMichael Canadian Art Collection)

Group of men, women and children, outside of a church at Aklavik, Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories. Photographed by Oxford anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood in 1952. (unnamed) Pitt Rivers Museum. University of Oxford

Misshipeshoo,1969 (tempura on paper) | 🎨 Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007) Anishinaabe McMichael Canadian Art Collection

“He very much captured the fact that this is not wilderness, or Terra Nullius, this is not new found land. This is land where people have lived for thousands of years…” ‘People of the Watershed’ (Figure.1|McMichael) on exhibit and at bookstores. www.figure1publishing.com/interview-pa...

Interview: Paul Seesequasis on John Macfie's Photography and People of the Watershed • Figure 1 Publishingwww.figure1publishing.com Paul Seesequasis: I first met John Macfie through Facebook, actually, this would be about five years ago. He was already in his early 90s and I was just lucky to get a hold of him. I had encountered h...

Lewis Bennett (Deerfoot) 1830-1896, the Seneca runner poses for a portrait in London, England in 1861. As famous for his off the track behaviour and fashion as his running, Bennett won his first race in 1856 at the Erie County fair, his fame spread and an English sports promoter heard of Deerfoot…

#BOTD, Apache artist Allan Houser (1914-1994). Sculpture: Rendezvous, 1981 Minneapolis Institute of Art

Cree/Métis photographer Murray Louis McKenzie (1927-2007). Photo taken in The Pas, Manitoba around 1962. #IndigenousHistoryMonth 📷 Richard Harrington | Library and Archives Canada

Two men with braids and wearing sashes. Photographed near Waterhen Lake, Saskatchewan in 1925. (Silver salts and coloured ink on glass). Unnamed. #IndigenousHistoryMonth 📷 Frank Crean | McCord Stewart Museum Archives

Gathering at Buffalo Child Stone (Mistasiniy), a 400-tonne glacial boulder and sacred site, in 1966. Elder Wilfred Tootoosis in background with headdress. In December, 1966 it was dynamited by the Saskatchewan government prior to the damming of the South Society…

Tlicho Elder Alexis Arrowmaker in a jacket made for him by Francis Richardson. Photographed in Behchokǫ̀, NWT in 1975. In 1991, the Tlicho Land Claim negotiating team chose Arrowmaker as their special advisor. #IndigenousHistoryMonth 📷 R.J. Richardson | NWT Archives

Arqavitturq (etching and aquatint) | 🎨 Tim Pitsiulak (Inuk) 1967-2016 Private Collection

Cree artist Angelique Merasty (1924-1996), practicing birch bark biting with her mother Susan Ballantyne at Amisk Lake, Saskatchewan around 1960. #IndigenousHistoryMonth 📷 Tom Dobson

Activist Buddy Sault of Thunder Bay confronts Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chrétien during the White Paper days in 1969. #IndigenousHistoryMonth 📷 Franz Meier | Globe and Mail Archives

Fanny Tom, George Sydney and Angela Tom with the ‘28 Chevy of Tlingit photographer and businessman George Johnston’s Taxi Service in Teslin, Yukon. Photographed in 1944. #IndigenousHistoryMonth 📷 George Johnston | George Johnston Museum

“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.” ― Werner Herzog

San Carlos Apache girls. Photographed on the San Carlos Reservation in 2008. #RezRules 📷 Gregory Bojorquez | Galerie Bene Taschen

Kahnawà:ke lacrosse player Atonwa Sekanennowhen (Thomas Ross). Photographed in a Montreal studio in 1876. #IndigenousHistoryMonth 📷 William Notman | McCord Stewart Museum Archives

Artist Daphne Odjig on Manitoulin Island in 1975. One of the original members of the ‘Indian Group of Seven.’ #IndigenousHistoryMonth 📷 National Gallery of Canada Archives

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” ― Werner Herzog