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Via Gambaro Gallery, which was launched by Retha Walden Gambaro and Stephen Gambaro to spotlight contemporary Native American artists, included Lomahaftewa's work in its 1980 National American Indian Women's Art Show. [10] She was listed in the 8th Edition of the International Who's Who in 1984.
Shirley Bear was a longtime advocate for Indigenous and women's rights in Canada. [10] In 1980, Bear became involved with the Tobique Women's Group, starting with activities at the Big Cove Reserve involving the unjust treatment of single mothers and housing.
A self-taught photographer working primarily in black-and-white, Harris has focused on people in their environments, documenting a variety of communities--Newfoundland fishing villages, a community in Nunavut, her own extended family, the United Farmworkers Union, nannies, breast-cancer survivors and activist women across Canada.
The CPR and Canadian National Railway, which also maintained a photography collection, provided pictures free of charge to writers on Canada. [30] Photographers and studios including William Notman, Alexander Henderson, and O. B. Buell were all engaged as part of campaigns by the federal government, CPR, and others to encourage settlement. [31]
Over Canada's history various refugees and economic migrants from the United States would immigrate to Canada for a variety of reasons. Exiled Loyalists from the United States first came, followed by African-American refugees ( fugitive slaves ), economic migrants, and later draft evaders from the Vietnam War.
South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021. [3] Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. [4]
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Nadema Ivania Agard, who also uses the name Winyan Luta Red Woman, [1] (born September 10, 1948) is an American visual artist, educator, illustrator, poet, storyteller, museum professional and an activist for Indigenous rights.