Performance, Politics, and Representation: Aboriginal People and the 1860 Royal Tour of Canada

Radforth, Ian

doi:10.3138/chr.84.1.1

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“…For instance, the cost to the HBC of bringing 'Indians, Eskimos, etc' to the celebrations in Winnipeg, was £6,000 (Bottomley, 24 November 1919). This colonialist spectacle was similar to earlier ceremonial events in Canada in which 'picturesque' Indigenous people performed for white observers (Radforth 2003). The anniversary was marked by extensive renovations of the HBC's Calgary department store (Minutes of the Governor and Committee, 13 April 1920b) that allowed attendees of the anniversary banquet to dine in a new Elizabethan-style restaurant.…”

Section: Development Of the Hbc's Rhetorical History Strategymentioning

confidence: 87%

Learning to use the past: the development of a rhetorical history strategy by the London headquarters of the Hudson’s Bay Company

Smith

Simeone

2017

Management & Organizational History

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Organization studies scholars are increasingly interested in how managers use the past to obtain competitive advantage. Little research has been done on the history of the corporate use of history which means that we know little about the circumstances in which the corporate use of rhetorical history was pioneered. This paper historicizes rhetorical history. It uses the experience of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) to develop understanding of how companies used the past to advance interests in the face of political threats. Founded in 1670, the HBC is one of the oldest firms in the Western world. For much of its history, its senior managers invested few resources in the firm's 'heritage infrastructure' and rarely used history in its communication with outside stakeholders. This paper shows how it learned to use history as a strategic asset gradually and by observing other firms. At the end of World War I, it began to make substantial investments in heritage infrastructure. This allowed the firm to turn its long history into an asset. This paper stresses the politicized nature of the corporate use of the past.

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Section: Development Of the Hbc's Rhetorical History Strategymentioning

confidence: 87%

Learning to use the past: the development of a rhetorical history strategy by the London headquarters of the Hudson’s Bay Company

Smith

Simeone

2017

Management & Organizational History

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“…In regard to the body and consumer culture in settler colonialism there is an extensive body of work on spectacles and displays of and by indigenous peoples at exhibitions, in pageants, and as part of tourist attractions (Henry, ; Jasen, ; Nelles, ; Radforth, ; Raibmon, ). Much of the research reveals the contested nature of such spectacles, the subtle power brokering by participants, and the ability for meaning to be shaped and re‐shaped in hegemonic or resistant fashion in specific “contact zones” (Pratt, ).…”

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“On display: Bodies and consumption in the ‘new’ Canadian cultural history”

Nicholas

2018

History Compass

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“…The presence of Indians was also viewed by the Canadian organizers as integral to the projection of unique identity, and, as historian Ian Radforth has shown, they ensured that Aboriginal people would figure prominently in the public spectacles. 11 For the First Nations, the visit offered an occasion to reaffirm their long-standing allegiance to the British crown and to represent to the Prince and the highranking colonial officials in his party their urgent grievances over illegal land appropriations. Since the Royal Proclamation of 1763 the only legal basis for the alienation of Indian land was by formal treaty with the Crown, and the Canadian First Nations had continued to regard the British monarch as the ultimate protector of their rights.…”

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Making Sense Out/of the Visual: Aboriginal Presentations and Representations in Nineteenth‐century Canada

Phillips¹

2004

Art History

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This essay examines a series of visual representations and material objects made by Aboriginal and colonial artists for the Prince of Wales's 1860 tour. This first royal visit to Canada featured a series of carefully staged meetings with Indians wearing distinctive dress, presentations of fine, Native‐made gifts, performances and formal speeches. The tour also stimulated a wealth of pictorial representations ranging from amateur watercolours to professional lithographs commissioned for the new illustrated weeklies. The material objects and visual images survive in museums and archives as a deposit of a moment of heightened colonial encounter and contestation. I argue that they reflect both the increased power and the reductionist tendency that characterize visual representation in modernity. On the other hand, the contemporary reassembly and reframing of these materials offers the opportunity to make sense out of the visual by accessing other sensory and performative dimensions of these encounters that point beyond the limitations of the visual towards a more fully post‐colonial understanding of their expressive values.

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Performance, Politics, and Representation: Aboriginal People and the 1860 Royal Tour of Canada

Cited by 23 publications

References 38 publications

Learning to use the past: the development of a rhetorical history strategy by the London headquarters of the Hudson’s Bay Company

Learning to use the past: the development of a rhetorical history strategy by the London headquarters of the Hudson’s Bay Company

“On display: Bodies and consumption in the ‘new’ Canadian cultural history”

Making Sense Out/of the Visual: Aboriginal Presentations and Representations in Nineteenth‐century Canada

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