Norval Morrisseau 81st Birthday Anniversary

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Ozaawaabiko-binesi ~ Copper Thunderbird ~ Miskwaabik Animikii

March 14th, 1931 /1932 or 1933/ - March 14th 2012


My Name is Norval Morrisseau...

"I was born in Forth William, Ontario - it's now part of Thunder Bay - on March 14th, 1931. There were nine of us, all boys. My mother and father were both Ojibway, but my mother was more Ojibway than my father; my father was partly half-breed French." [1]

[1] - THE ART OF NORVAL MORRISSEAU ('Jack Pollock's Book') /Lister Sinclair, Jack Pollock, and Norval Morrisseau/; ISBN: 0-458-93820-3 /Toronto, Ontario: Methuen, 1979./;

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* Photography (detail) by Kay Tingley
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