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Mi’Kmaq Expression
Culture Through Art
When you see this symbol write down the information!
What is Culture?
The accumulated habits, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people that define for them their general behaviour and way of life; the total set of learned activities of a people.www.geographic.org/glossary.html
What is art?
a form of human activity created primarily as an aesthetic expression, especially, but not limited to drawing, painting and sculpture.myrlejohnson.tripod.com/id12.html
How can art show us what people believe, think or feel?
Depict in drawings
Functional use of items
Design
Color choice
Medium
Concept
Messages
Pre-Contact Art: Purpose
Important messages
Legends – Oral to symbols
Instructions
Later - Treaties
Pre-Contact Art
Functional
Clear Purpose
“Obvious” messages
Pre-Contact Art
Handed down
Textures/textiles obtainable from environment
Useful in someway
Pre-Contact Art
Function
Design based on obtainable resources
Materials in Mi’Kmaq Art: Traditional Materials
ReedsPorcupine QuillsVoiceLeatherFeathersStains/Natural Dyes
Materials in Mi’Kmaq Art: Modern Materials
The same materials you would expect in any art
Messages tend to be culturally relevant to the Mi’Kmaq experience
Tradition, Change and Survival: Mi'kmaq Tourist Art - Musée McCord Museum
Pre-Contact Art
Art had a purpose
Not just for the sake of creation but for a message, a meaning
Why do you think art was not for expression?
Why do you think it had a purpose?
Mi’Kmaq Art
Shows history
Brings history alive
Shows legend, stories, myth and reality
Mi’Kmaq Art
Meaning may be subtle or obvious
Meaningful Art
Art is representative of the experience: historical, legends, stories, shared histories (drawings, sculptures), useful or resourceful in it’s creation (moccasins, baskets, canoes…)
Art is More than the Obvious
Art is …
Words, Music, Drama, Poetry, Literature
Read the poem by Rita Joe (I Lost My Talk)
I Lost My Talk – Rita Joe
I lost my talk The talk you took away. When I was a little girl At Shubencadie school.You snatched it away: I speak like you I think like you I create like you The scrambled ballad, about my word.Two ways I talk Both ways I say, Your way is more powerful.So gently I offer my hand and ask, Let me find my talk So i can teach you about me.
Frank’s Song – Rita Joe
Someday my dear I'm going awayThe other place my home is thereI'll be around where lovers they playIn your dreams I love you every daySomeday my dear I'm going awayNot meaning to but Niskam* sayThen so true it happens that wayHe went away and now I am so blue.Chorus:So true are words of loveWe take them all, not knowing when they will endSo true of what we sayWe build it in our heart, for now it is so good.Someday my dear I'll be seeing youThe words I say they are so trueSomeday my dear, the stars they will shineTogether then, our love will show for all the timeSomeday my dear together we'll roamThe loving land where lovers goSomeday my dear our dreams they will flyWhen love is true, the dreams we share they do not die.~ Rita Joe, January 30, 1997Copyright © 2000 Rita Joe
Art is Expression
Who we are
How we live
What we experience
How we own experience
What we feel
Our Life is Art!
Aboriginal Dance
A dancer gets to collaborate with another indiginous group about their dancing.
Kaledioscope
Film – Expression in a more modern context
Our Lives in Our Hands (You Tube Film)
Outcomes
5.1 Explore cultural pride and inner cultural conflicts as elements of Mi’kmaw contemporary culture and community as expressed through First Nations literature, arts, filmmaking, and other venues5.2 Explore universal themes in First Nations literature through short pieces of literature5.3 Recommend representations that most strongly represent their understandings of Mi’kmaw culture based on investigations into contemporary First Nations artistic expressions
Assignment: Mi’Kmaq Art
1. How did the art you see show you the pride the participants had in their culture. Make sure you use an example from visual art, the film, dance, and written forms of art.
2. Using the two poems we read in class as well as the collection of oral traditions you have in your binder what themes do we see in Mi’Kmaw writing?
3. An alien has landed in our parking lot and you have to show them Mi’Kmaw culture. What do you tell them about culture? What do you show them?