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RITCHIE SINCLAIR (Stardreamer) / January 2nd 1957, Thunder Bay, Scottish Lineage. Apprenticed with Norval Morrisseau, 1979-1985, founding member of the Thunderbird School of Shamanistic Art.

Socially Conscious Artistic Initatives

• 1994 – “The Meeting Place”, a 28 panel mural was chosen as the centerpiece of the First International Toronto Pow Wow, held at Toronto’s Skydome. This 16ft x 21ft “spirit shield” hung from the Skydome’s retractable roof above thousands of First Nations dancers, drummers, singers and other attendees.

• 2008 – Launched a comprehensive website at “Morrisseau.com” that blew the whistle on a country-wide forgery syndicate producing thousands of fake Norval Morrisseau paintings. Ritchie defended his assertions in multiple civil court cases filed to silence him.