First Nations Artists - First Nations Conceptual Artists, First Nations Filmmakers, First Nations Installation Artists (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: First Nations conceptual artists, First Nations filmmakers, First Nations installation artists, First Nations performance artists, First Nations photographers, Haida artists, Bill Reid, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Dana Claxton, Alanis Obomsawin, Margo Kane, Faye HeavyShield, Joseph Tehawehron David, David B. Williams, Shanawdithit, Shirley Cheechoo, Triple K Co-operative, Benjamin Haldane, Georgina Lightning, Tracey Deer, Richard Throssel, Willie Dunn, Indian Group of Seven, Bonnie Devine, Rebecca Belmore, Charles Edenshaw, Douglas Cardinal, Robert Davidson, Neil Diamond, Phyllis Grant, William Commanda, Kent Monkman, Freda Diesing, Florence Davidson, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Jay Simeon, Bert Crowfoot, Greg A. Hill, Reg Davidson, Gerry Marks. Excerpt: Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC (born February 20, 1941) is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism. She recorded one country album, I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again, in Nashville, and her Academy Award-winning "Up Where We Belong" is considered "pure pop." She founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding of Native Americans. She has won recognition and many awards and honours for both her music and her work in education and social activism. She was born Beverly Sainte-Marie in 1941 on the Piapot Cree Indian reserve in the Qu'Appelle valley, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was orphaned and later adopted, growing up in Maine with parents Albert and Winifred Sainte-Marie, who were related to her biological parents. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amhe...