Art and the colonial narrative in the canadian media. Return to the house of invention by norval morriseau. Carmen robertson is the canada research chair in north american art and material culture in the faculty of arts and social sciences jointly appointed between the school for studies in art and culture, the school of indigenous and canadian studies, and the institute for comparative studies in. Norval morrisseau standing in front of a mural at the old red lake indian. Show an image of man changing into thunderbird, norval morrisseau, 1977. Reviewed in the united states on september 11, 2017.
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