The story of Norval Morrisseau is as inspiring as it is heartbreaking. Morrisseau, an First Nations artist from Northern Ontario, rose from poverty and discrimination to become one of Canada’s most influential painters. He founded the Woodland School of Art, a style that tells ancestral stories about Indigenous spirituality and connections between humans and animals (the natural world). His art was not only visual, it was cultural (spiritual) and deeply personal as well. Morrisseau painted to preserve his people’s traditions and to communicate truths that words alone could not carry. But…