-Beadling, Laura R. “Reel Indigenous Women’s Lives: Female Protagonists in Films by Indigenous Women” Rocky Mountain review (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association) (2016) Vol 10 pp 133

The value of this source is that it provides a rare look at the ways in which Indigenous women depict themselves and other Indigenous women in film. This source provides a lens that focuses strictly on the self-representation of Indigenous women. It is not a response to colonial representations of Indigenous women’s identities.

-Brady, Miranda J. “Gender and state violence: films that do justice to the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people in Canada” Feminist Media Studies (2016) Vol 16 (5) pp 918-922

This might be useful in an exploration of violence, particularly violence perpetrated against Indigenous women, in film. I am hoping that this source will provide examples of the ways in which colonial violence can be interrogated through film and media.

-Demers, Patricia. “Location, Dislocation, Relocation: Shooting Back with Cameras” from Indigenous Women and Feminism. UBC Press (2010)

This source provides insight into the ways in which Indigenous women’s filmmaking practice relates to efforts of resurgence. It explores the ways in which Indigenous women use filmmaking to connect with land, identity and community.

-Dowell, Kristin L. “Sovereign Screens: Aboriginal Media on the Canadian West Coast” University of Nebraska Press (2013)

This source would provide some contextual background information on the Indigenous film industry in Canada. This would be useful in expanding my understanding of Indigenous filmmaking and practices of representation.

-Gauthier, Jennifer L. “Embodying Change: Cinematic Representations of Indigenous Women’s Bodies: A Cross Cultural Comparison” International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (2015) Vol 11(3) pp 283-298

-The Cave (2009)Dir. Helen Haig-Brown

This film by Haig-Brown provides an example of Indigenous self-representation in film. It explores relationship to culture, ancestral knowledge and implications of dispossession.

-My Legacy (2014) Dir. Helen Haig-Brown

This documentary film by Haig-Brown is intensely personal. It is an exploration of Haig-Brown’s ability to love while navigating the effects of intergenerational trauma and violence. This film, like others here, has a narrative of Indigenous women’s healing through love and confrontation of violence.

-“A conversation with Helen Haig-Brown, Lisa Jackson, and Elle-Maija Apiniskim Tailfeathers” Biography (2016) Vol 39 (3) pp 278

Useful source in analyzing perspectives of various female Indigenous filmmakers. Different insights into practice, production method and motivation.

-Gauthier, Jennifer L. “Dismantling the Master’s House: The Feminist Fourth Cinema Documentaries of Alanis Obomsawin and Loretta Todd” Post Script (2010) Vol 29 (3) pp 27

An exploration into the power of film in resurgence. The focus of this piece are Indigenous documentary filmmakers who have navigated a careful relationship between the film industry and their own ethical practice.

-Greyeyes, Michael. “He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film.” Theatre Research in Canada (2008) Vol 29 pp 110-128

A performative text originally delivered as a speech by Greyeyes. This text provides a first-hand indigenous perspective on a life in the filmmaking industry. Shows how Indigenous people may work to subvert stereotype and reclaim representation through film.

-Johnson, Brian D. “Hollywood’s Shocking Reel Indians” Mclean’s (2010) Vol 123 pp 59

A mainstream review of the film “Reel Injuns.” This provides a non-indigenous reaction to the film and may contextualize the function of Diamond’s film as a subversion of colonial understandings of Indigenous identities.

-Marubbio, M Elise. “Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teachings and Theory” The University Press of Kentucky (2012)

A book that would provide a more rooted understanding of Indigenous perspectives of the film industry.

-“My Legacy Interview with Courageous Filmmaker Helen Haig-Brown” Muskrat Magazine (2014)

MY LEGACY INTERVIEW WITH COURAGEOUS FILMMAKER HELEN HAIG-BROWN

An interview with Haig-Brown that would provide more insight into her practice and motivations. I am becoming more interested in focusing on female Indigenous filmmakers as well as in representations of Indigenous women in film (where I am having a hard time finding academic sources for some reason)

-Randolf, Lewis. “Alanis Obomsawin : the Vision of a Native Filmmaker” University of Nebraska Press (2006)

A source that provides a comprehensive understanding of Obomsawin’s practice as a filmmaker and her relationship to the film industry.

-Ryle, Jason. “IndigiTALKS!” Cineaction (2016)
A panel featuring Canadian Indigenous filmmakers Alanis Obomsawin, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Tracey Deer

Another discussion between female Indigenous filmmakers providing insight into practice and representation.

-Bloodland (2011) Dir. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

A very important source. This film focuses on Indigenous women’s bodies and relationship to land. It is a critique of the settler-colonial exploitation of land and resources that illustrates the relationship between Indigenous women’s body and personhood and the land. Would be interesting in comparison with a colonial representation of Indigenous women’s bodies.

-A Red Girl’s Reasoning (2012) Dir. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Another film that uses physicality to critique colonial violence. This also parodies action films, echoing cinematic tropes. It provides a synthesis of Indigenous perspectives and traditional or recognizable filmmaking practices.

–Thompson, Isha. “Reel Injun Shows Native People are Real Funny.” Windspeaker. Edmonton (2010) Vol 28 pp. 15

A review of the film “Reel Injuns” fromly widely circulated Indigenous publication Windspeaker. Could be juxtaposed with a mainstream review.

-Turner, Kristina. “’It’s living and breathing in this generation’: A conversation with Helen Haig-Brown” rabble.ca (2014)

‘It’s living and breathing in this generation’: A conversation with Helen Haig-Brown

Another conversation with Haig-Brown that provides more of a history behind her work. Important for contextualizing her work.

– Victor, J., PhD., Linds, W., PhD., Episkenew, J., PhD., Goulet, L., PhD., & Benjoe, D. “Kiskenimisowin (self-knowledge): Co-researching Wellbeing With Canadian First Nations Youth Through Participatory Visual Methods” International Journal of Indigenous Health, 11(1), 262-278.

This is the only research based source I have included. I think it would be interesting to include an exploration of the effects of practices of representation on the well-being of Indigenous youth to provide a more solid understanding of why representation is important.