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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.
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.
She exhibited paintings in the 1974 Minnesota Governor's Invitational and the 1979 American Indian Community House Gallery Invitational. [7] Via Gambaro Gallery, which was launched by Retha Walden Gambaro and Stephen Gambaro to spotlight contemporary Native American artists, included Agard's work in its 1980 National American Indian Women's Art ...
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.
Retha Walden Gambaro (December 9, 1917–September 9, 2013) was an American sculptor and gallery owner.. She is known for her own artworks that explore Indigenous American themes and for her curatorial practice that brought attention to contemporary Native American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
This page lists people of American citizenship who immigrate to Canada.For those who emigrated before 1867 or to areas after that that were not yet part of Canada use Category:American emigrants to British North America, or for Newfoundland after 1907 but before it was incorporated into Canada i 1949 use Category:American emigrants to the British Empire
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]
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.