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Canada s Gerald McMaster Zooms into town for Wheelwright talk Ontario-based educator, curator and former artist Gerald McMaster (Plains Cree) looks back on his time at Santa Fe s Institute of American Indian Arts in the 1970s as a good thing even though, he says, his classes didn t really delve into Indigenous art history the way he d have liked. That s partly why he founded his own curriculum through what was then known as the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (today it s called First Nations University of Canada, and it still teaches McMaster s stuff). Around that time, he gave up his own practice to focus on the scholarly aspects of the arts, but the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian s Chief Curator Andrea Hanley still snagged a McMaster painting for