“I know that for a couple of years, public collections have been trying very fastidiously at their holdings of Norval’s work to ensure they’re right, and a few works have been sussed out that way,” Sen. Bovey said. Bovey was working on the Winnipeg Art Gallery when Morriseau and other Indigenous artists founded the Indian Group of Seven in Winnipeg within the 1970s. Sen. Patricia Bovey, the primary art historian to take a seat within the Canadian Senate, estimates that the industry of fraudulent art costs Indigenous artists hundreds of thousands of dollars. The business ranges from designs copied onto…