Handcraft of indigenous people makes return to Turtle Island in Toledo Museum exhibit – BG Independent News

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Handcraft of indigenous people makes return to Turtle Island in Toledo Museum exhibit – BG Independent News

By DAVID DUPONT BG Independent News The Toledo Museum of Art’s new exhibit “Return to Turtle Island: Indigenous Nation-Building in the Eighteenth Century”  is small in scale, but expansive in the story it tells. The story of the travels of these two dozen objects is traced on the walls.  At the entry is a large print of Samuel de Champlain’s 1623 map, the first made, of the Great Lakes region from the eastern shore to the Great Lakes. Facing it i