“Commissioning Indigenous artists to design the Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67 is now considered a pivotal step in acknowledging activism around and awareness of Indigenous issues in Canada, but Morrisseau left the project when government officials deemed his mural design of bear cubs nursing from Mother Earth to be too controversial.” — Carmen Robertson, excerpted from Norval Morrisseau: Life & Work
Art & Influence
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Norval Morrisseau’s mural for the Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67.