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'Stardreamer' about 'Spirit Walker'...

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~ KRG's 'Twitter' presence at http://twitter.com/kinsmanrobinson.
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* To read an original post and all pertaining comments click HERE!

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Announcement of Norval Morrisseau passing on Radio-Canada.ca. NORVAL MORRISSEAU BLOG mentioned Dec. 5th, 2007 at the above Website together with the following: National Museum of the American Indian, National Art Gallery of Canada, McMichael Canadian Art Collection and Kinsman Robinson Gallery.
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- Blog Master's Public Address V,

- Blog Master's Public Address VI,

- The Tale of the Art of Norval Morrisseau,

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part I),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part II),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part III),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part IV),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part V),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part VI),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part VII),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part VIII),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part IX),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part X),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part XI),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part XII),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part XIII),

- Changing Faces of Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair (Part XIV),

- How Ritchie 'Stardreamer' Sinclair met Norval Morrisseau...,

- Where in the KRG World is Ritchie "Stardreamer" Sinclair?,

- 'Stardreamer' about 'Spirit Walker'...,

- Death Threat by Ritchie 'Stardreamer' Sinclair,

- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part II),
- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part IV),
- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part V),
- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part VI),
- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part VII),
- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part VIII),
- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part IX),
- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part X),
- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part XI),

- The truth behind 'Open Letter to the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society',
- Deceptions of the main 'Norval Morrisseau Conspirators': Gabor Vadas, Bryant Ross, Donald Robinson & Ritchie 'Stardreamer' Sinclair (Part I),

- The chronology of Ritchie 'Stardreamer' Sinclair's belligerent activities from 11/22/2007 to present &
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Others about Norval Morrisseau I

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I'm guessing that when the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Winter Olympics finally roll around in two years there's going to be lots of references to Aboriginal culture. Lots of dancing, drumming, native dress, references to aboriginal creation myths during the opening ceremonies; some elders will be brought in to bless the proceedings, that kind of thing. You can already see them using an Inuksuk (those Inuit 'rock piles') as one of their official icons. And as it should be. I have no problem with it, in fact I'm all for it. Like Australians we post-centennial, post-modern Canadians like to reach back to the deep time or the dream time when it comes time to show our face to the world. How real we are. The indigenous art. What inspired up and out from the land before the blight of colonialism. See, "we" are as ancient as everybody else. As old as Europe. I suppose its a kind of progress really, but a large dose of irony might still be necessary amidst all our mutual, terribly official self-congratulation.

Residential schools aside - check out Bill Reid on the twenty dollar bill. Bill Reid at the Vancouver airport. And my personal favourite, Bill Reid at the Canadian Embassy in Washington.

Many a Canadian white boy and girl has ventured forth into The Bush, however clumsily, trying to catch a whiff of the spirits. Going deep, getting back, oh yeah - getting real. Going back to the earth, because as the late, great Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen once wrote: "No one invited us here."

But I wonder if any "Canadian" (and yes, in the context of this post I do feel the need to put that word in quotation marks) ever saw this 'real spirit' behind the surface of what we now call Canada better and more vibrantly than the recently, dearly departed Norval Morrisseau. His paintings were literally churning from the inside out. Skeletal and skeletons. Often called "x-ray". People within animals and animals within people and animals within animals within people covered in flowers riding on a fish, and all of it singing in the most glorious colour. And so out there and dangerous, freaky, hallucinogenic, tripping the bounds of sanity, and erotic. And inspired by sacred, ancient aboriginal myth.

"Why am I alive?"he said in a 1991 interview with The Toronto Star. "To heal you guys who are more screwed up than I am. How can I heal you? With color. These are the colors you dreamt about one night."

I've adored his work for years, before I ever knew his name or even knew who the heck he was. I bought my first Norval Morrisseau print a few years back at some poster sale in Hamilton and I remember riding the GO bus back into Toronto with the thing spread out on my lap for the whole trip, taking it in grinning ear to ear, just dazzled. And that was just a print. A poster. I tacked it to my kitchen wall and it made me happy every time I looked at it.

If anyone was the God Father of the Renaissance of Aboriginal Art and Culture that has ultimately made Canada a much humbler, more honest, better and yes more beautiful place, it had to be him. And at its heart the work was a profound movement for justice. That which cannot be denied.

Marc Chagall famously compared him to Picasso.

Keep your Group of Seven's, sure.

But Norval Morrisseau was the Best Canadian Painter Ever.

Reid Neufeld
Source: Global Health Nexus Blog /Global Health, Politics and Culture/
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Example of a Norval Morrisseau's painting alleged to be fake... (Part II)

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Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau vs. Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau (Part IV)

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1) We can clearly see that both paintings "Untitled" (1968) and "The Serpent of Life" (1969) were painted/executed with identical composition. This confirms, more than once in the presentations on this blog, that Norval Morrisseau repeated many times his images.

This also undeniably proves that there is a connection between "Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau" and "Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau" paintings (click HERE to see both of these images side by side).

2) All of the paintings presented in "The Writing On The Wall... Norval Morrisseau Conspiracy Exposed" (click HERE) were also acquired directly from Mr. Rolf Schneider, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

3) The Thunder Bay Art Gallery holds among the other art pieces from the Helen E. Bend Collection had received in 2002 a donation of an oil painting on natural birch bark 'After Spirit of the Fourth' (Item: 02.3.1) > 24.8 cm x 26.2 cm > 1958 which was directly donated from Mr. Rolf Schnieder's Private Collection.

Also, Mr. Joseph Otavnik Family donated four paintings in 2004 to the same institution:

1) 'Untitled' [animal spirits facing inward] (Item: 04.7.1) > 73 cm x 56 cm > 1970; 2) 'Untitled' [two shaman and animal spirits in cameo] (Item: 04.7.2) > 72 cm x 85 cm > 1979; 3) Lake Trout with Eggs (Item: 04.7.3) > 114 cm x 80 cm > 1973 & 4) 'Untitled' [fish with minnows] (Item: 04.7.4) > 73 cm x 50 cm > 1976.

All of these paintings are declared authentic by Mr. Glenn Allison* who - Curator of The Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

* - Mr. Glenn Allison began his career as Research Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, working with Doris Shadboft from 1968-1972. His experience of more than thirty years includes management of the Bau-Xi Galleries on the west coast of Canada; Instructor of Art History for Columbia Junior College and Capilano College; instructor for the British Columbia Museums Association; instructor for the Association of Manitoba Museums; instructor for Brandon University, Manitoba; Director-Curator of the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon 1989-1999; Director Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo 2000-2003.

>>> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Due to the fact that Mr. Rolf Schneider's and Mr. Gary Lamont's names have been mentioned several times on the internet in not very respectful way I decided to 'speak up' and defend their names and their involvment with issues in connection with authentic Norval Morrisseau's art pieces that came from their private collections at one time or another.

Mr. Gary Lamont a.k.a. Gary Bruce Thacky (Thunder Bay, Ontario) is an owner of the website www.woodlandartgallery.ca. He was a very close and very good friend of Norval Morrisseu who has always kept in high regard Norval Morrisseau from the very beginning of their relationship. Mr. Gary Lamont has a connection with the artist that goes back to the beginning of the 1980's and Norval Morrisseau was a family friend since the early 1960's (click HERE). All the paintings presented now and in the past on www.woodlandartgallery.ca are authentic pieces of art by Norval Morrisseau.

At the same time when I originally introduced Mr. Rolf Schneider I introduced individual that was selling paintings that originated from Mr. Schneider's and Mr. Lamont's collections - Mr. Anthony (Tony) Martinenko; art dealer from Winnipeg, Manitoba; who is an important element in describing many of the issues involving Norval Morrisseau's art that have been offered for sale all across Canada in the past decade. He took over art dealing activities from Alan (Al) R. Swanson (08/10/1947-11/05/1998) who dealt with paintings from Mr. Rolf Schneider's collection. Another individual introduced who sold many paintings that originated from the same source was Darcy Boylan (also deceased) from Thunder Bay, Ontario.

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> Also, my first Norval Morrisseau's painting was purchased in Winter 1999-2000 from Mr. Anthony Martinenko who acquired it from Mr. Rolf Schneider (click HERE)!

>>> INVITATION TO ALL READERS:

There are many of you who possess important valuable information such as paintings, photographs and other printed/written materials which will greatly assist our common goal. I urge you to provide this information to me for public record. Norval Morrisseau has become one of Canada's greatest all time artists and is recognized for his importance Worldwide.
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>>> Reference posts:

- Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau vs. Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau (Part I),

- Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau vs. Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau (Part II),

- Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau vs. Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau (Part III),

- Manipulative Nature of Gabor Vadas (Part I) /Ref.: Mr. Gary Lamont/,

- Understanding Art of Norval Morrisseau (Part I),

- Understanding Art of Norval Morrisseau (Part II),

- Understanding Art of Norval Morrisseau (Part III),

- Understanding Art of Norval Morrisseau (Part IV),

- Norval Morrisseau Comparison Report (Part I) /Separated at Birth?/,

- Norval Morrisseau Comparison Report (Part I) /Revisited/,

- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part I),

- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part II),

- Morrisseau History Detective Stories (Part III),

- "The Writing On The Wall... Norval Morrisseau Conspiracy Exposed",

- www_NorvalMorrisseauLegalDefenceFund_com &

- Justice for Norval Morrisseau Found.

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We Are All Children of Mother Earth

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Quotes of Pablo Picasso that could easily be applied to "Picasso of the North" (Part V)

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"Morrisseau Signature Identification Article 101" (Part I)

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>>> In this article you will learn valuable information and insight to identifying written and painted signatures done by the Master Artist Norval Morrisseau. Several known and published examples of Norval Morrisseau's signatures will be used as our base reference points in comparison analysis to asertain commonly repeated similarities found in Norval Morrisseau's written and painted signatures. Norval Morrisseau's painted signature can be found on the reverse of many canvas works of art that he created throughout his artistic carreer as a Woodland artist.
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Let us start by showing examples of his signature as found in well known documentation. These pictures were provided to me with permission from Maslak McLeod Gallery - Exibition catalogue 2007.
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Letter to Sussanna McLeod Dated 1968 (letter 1.)
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*Special note: Pay close attention to the fact that Norval Morrisseau does what is called ''print-writes'' as I coin this phrase. He prints written letters and does not attach them in a normal written script manner. This is a highly distinctive form of caligraphy. Also note the blending of upper and lower case letters throughout his correspondence in his letter to Sussanna McLeod (letter 1.). This mannerism and style is reflected in the painted signatures and titles of created artworks by Norval Morrisseau.
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Close-up view of Norval Morrisseau's signature in Sussanna Mcleod's letter
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- letter 2.
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'N'-orval
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1. The letter N in Norval can be seen here written in the above three signatures on paper are normal N letters, but appears as two sevens 77 connected to each other when Morrisseau painted them on the back of a finished canvas as can be seen in our below examples of this letter N characteristic which runs consistently many times with his works. The N is always separated from the rest of the letters in his first name.
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The first letter N in Norval can also be seen painted onto his canvases in a normal N style. The example below clarifies this fact in relation to Morrisseau's written words onto paper as well as the signatures in our four examples.
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The painting of the letter N has the distinction of being painted with three separate strokes of the brush. This ''three stroke letter N'' can be noticed many times in the -print writing- of titles that Morrisseau placed onto special pieces. Sometimes he just painted the letter N normally without removing the brush off the canvas. In the many examples provided in this article of the full views of the reverse canvas one can see the N painted in the manner described above with 3 strokes of the brush.

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The two letter N's above were taken from samples of Morrisseau titled works /Click in image to Enlarge/
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The letters 'O-R-V' in Norval
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2. The letters O-R and V in his first name NORVAL are always found seperated and Norval Morrisseau capitalizes his letter R. The capitilization of his letter R can be found three times in his entire signature painted on the reverse of his canvases and this correspondence can be found as well in his written signatures in our 4 examples. In letter 1. above it is clearly seen that Morrisseau wrote with a caligraphy that blended upper and lower case written printed letters. This characteristic is found many times in his paintings he chose to title and on the reverse side along with his signature and date of creation for the piece. Look carefully at the letter V and how the left stroke length of this letter is always shorter in length than the right stroke of the letter. This is typical of Norval Morrisseau's caligraphic style for writing this letter in his name.
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*special note: -the letter -O- which is found two times in NOrval MOrrisseau's name were drawn on canvas and written on paper in a counter-clockwise fashion. Try to follow the brush stroke in our samples below to see how Morrisseau first touched the canvas with his brush and follow the swing of the letter in a counter-clockwise direction to it's completion to make the letter.
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Note the separation of letters O-R and V in his written signature in letters 1. & 2. and the print signature provided in these examples below. All are showing a clear separation of the letters O-R and V in his first name n-O-R-V-al. The R's are always capitilized-upper case.
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The letters 'AL' in Norval
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3. The last two letters of Morrisseau's first name are -al- and these two letters are always written together and painted together in script form as can be seen in these examples below and in letters 1. & 2. and in our print signature example.
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'M'-orrisseau
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4. The letter 'M' in Norval Morrisseau's last name is written and painted rather flamboyantly. This letter is always painted and written separately and with one brush stroke as you trace and follow it's path to completion you see how Norval Morrisseau did this.
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'O-R-R-i' in Morrisseau
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5. The next four letters in Morrisseau's last name are 'O-R-R-i'. These four letters appear always separated as they are written and painted onto the backs of his canvases and on paper. Note the letter ''i'' and how it is dotted up and to the right of the letter bar's top end. The letter ''i'' is also done in a lowercase script manner and found separated. This is a characteristic of his caligraphic style and is seen many times in his written letters on paper and also reflected in his painted signature on the reverse of the canvases he created. You can see this easily in our written signature examples above.
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The double 'R-R'
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Four examples of the upper case written and painted letter R and how it is painted onto the reverse of a canvas done by Norval Morrisseau and written as such in letters he wrote.
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middle 'S'
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6. Let us examine the first middle letter S as it appears in Morrisseau's last name. Here we have a most remarkable similarity between the look of this letter and the second Cree syllabic letter that Norval Morrisseau paints onto the fronts of his creations! Did Morrisseau do this consciously or subconsciously? One can only speculate. The syllabics read ''Copper Thunderbird'' on the front of the canvas. The letter S here is always separated in his written signature and Morrisseau painted the letter this way as well. This can be clearly scene below in our image examples. The photograph of Morrisseau's second Cree syllabic was taken from our painting Titled ''Sacred Medicine Bear'' dated 1979.
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The above Cree sylabics spells out 'Copper ThunderBird'
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'S-E-A-U' in Morrisseau
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7. The last remaining letters in Morrisseau's name to be adressed are S-E-A-U. These four remaining letters in Morrisseau's last name are always written and painted together in written script form.
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The S-E-A-U remaining letters are many times never painted completely. You will find an SEA, SAU, SEAU, SUE or an S followed by a scribbled like trailing of the brush to complete the last four letters with little legibility.
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8. *special note - Norval Morrisseau almost always painted and wrote his first name Norval on top of Morrisseau.
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The Date
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9. Norval Morrisseau many times dated his creations. When he did date the pieces he finished,he would only indicate the last two years of the year. Painting it as such '77, '80, '75, '71... etc omitting the century indicator (19th century).
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The copyright symbol
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10. In addition to the two numbered date scheme Norval Morrisseau applied a copy right symbol ''C'' to his paintings and this was done in a counter-clockwise direction as it was brushed on to the canvas. By carefully following the position of the brush stroke one can easily assertain it's direction on the canvas.
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Spelling Mistakes
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11. Look for spelling mistakes in the titles that Norval Morrisseau painted onto the reverse of his pieces. The letter attached to this examination will suffice evidence to this fact that Morrisseau was not a great speller at times. Here are a couple of examples of this below.
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In the above picture example we can see that Norval Morrisseau mispells the word apprentice and paints it as Apprent-A-ce.
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In this example we can see that the word Animal has been mispelled as the word Anima-i-L.
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Written signature on canvas/ball point pen
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12. In our next example we are demonstrating a signed painting in Ball point pen on the reverse side of a canvas. Although it is not 100% clear one can still see the separation of the letters in Norval's first name up to the letter R and the -al- written as attached just like his written signature in our letter example. The double capitilization of the two letters -RR- are still pretty clear to read. The CREE sylabic S can be seen in the centre of Morri-S-seau's name with the written SEAU in script written form. Date of creation 1971 written as '71 with the copyright symbol in place.
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Michael Moniz
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eBay vendor *avalon*
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~ To be continued... (click HERE to see the "Morrisseau Signature Identification Article 101" in its entirety)
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>>> Reference posts:
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part I),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part II),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part III),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part IV),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part V),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part VI),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part VII),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part VIII),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part IX),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part X),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XI),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XII),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XIII),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XIV),
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XV),
- Norval Morrisseau's Certificate of Authenticity (Part I),
- Norval Morrisseau's Certificate of Authenticity (Part II),
- Norval Morrisseau's Certificate of Authenticity (Part III),
- Norval Morrisseau's Certificate of Authenticity (Part IV),
- Norval Morrisseau's Certificate of Authenticity (Part V),
- Norval Morrisseau's Certificate of Authenticity (Part VI),
- Norval Morrisseau's Certificate of Authenticity (Part VII),
- Norval Morrisseau's Certificate of Authenticity (Part VIII),
- www_NorvalMorrisseauLawsuit_com (Part I),
- www_NorvalMorrisseauLawsuit_com (Part II),
- www_NorvalMorrisseauLawsuit_com (Part III),
- www_NorvalMorrisseauLawsuit_com (Part IV),
- www_NorvalMorrisseauLawsuit_com (Part V),
- www_NorvalMorrisseauLawsuit_com (Part VI),
- www_NorvalMorrisseauLawsuit_com (Part VII),
- www_NorvalMorrisseauLegalDefenceFund_com,
- Norval Morrisseau Genuine Collage,
- Justice for Norval Morrisseau (Part I),
- Justice for Norval Morrisseau Found,
- Michael Moniz vs. CTV Globemedia Publishing Inc.,
- Sacred Medicine Wheel /Forensic Report/,
- Sacred Medicine Bear /Forensic Report/,
- Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau vs. Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau (Part I),
- Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau vs. Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau (Part II) &
- Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau vs. Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau (Part III).
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