Translation of most of the essays included in the original German publication, Im Schatten der Sonne : Zeitgenossische Kunst der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada / edited by Gerhard Hoffmann. 1988, published to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization's exhibition, shown in Europe and Canada, 1988-1990.

Abstract in French.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Gerald McMaster -- The fourth world and fourth world art / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- "The Whites are thick as flies in summertime" : Indian/White relations in the nineteenth century / Joanne MacDonald -- Trends in Northwest Coast Indian art 1880-1959 : decline and expansion / Peter L. Macnair -- In search of things past, remembered, retraced, and reinvented / Martine Reid -- Tenuous lines of descent : Indian art and craft of the reservation period / Gerald McMaster -- The political, economic, and sociocultural conditions of life for the Indians of Canada in the twentieth century / Peter R. Graber -- Indian artists' statements through time / Viviane Gray -- The art of Canada's Indians and the modern aesthetic / Gerhard Hoffmann -- Of public concern, the pensioning of the visual arts in Canada since 1945 / Michael Bell -- Northwest Coast Indian art from 1950 to the present / Karen Duffek -- "Messages from the past" : oral traditions and contemporary woodlands art / Ruth B. Phillips -- Postmodern culture and Indian art / Gerhard Hoffmann -- Canadian Inuit culture 1800-1950 / Ernest S. Burch, Jr. -- The history of Inuit culture / Patricia Sutherland -- Social, economic, and political transformation among Canadian Inuit from 1950 to 1988 / Marybelle Mitchell -- Inuit art : a history of government involvement / Helga Goetz -- The aesthetics of Inuit art : decoration, symbolism, and myth in Inuit graphics; material, form, and space in Inuit sculpture; the context of modernism and postmodernism / Gerhard Hoffmann -- Talking with the artists / Dorothy Harley Eber -- Contemporary Inuit sculpture : an approach to the medium, the artists, and their work / Marie Routledge -- Inuit textile arts / Maria Muehlen -- Three decades of Inuit printmaking : evolution and artistic trends, 1958-1988 / Odette Leroux.