Thank you.
One of the great frustrations I have in my life is that my great-grandfather, Alphonse Paré, spoke English, French, Cree and Ojibwa and didn't pass that knowledge on to the next generations. That frustrates me greatly.
For me to hear that the vast majority of so-called “indigenous art” isn't legitimate frustrates me. I didn't know that. There's nothing quite so horrifying as buying indigenous art and finding a “made in China” label on the back of it.
How can I as a consumer, and people generally, recognize fraudulent or counterfeit indigenous art? What can we do about it from that side of things as well?