Artist: Francis Horne. Tribe - Coast Salish. Title of mask: Shamans transformation
Good evening to each and everyone and it’s been a heck of a summer with lots of action manifesting. So as some of you are aware, I finished off my statement of claim and the law firm representing me is putting everything together. The finishing touches so to speak. Much like the mask I posted here by Francis Horne, it has been a very difficult and challenging process digging up these truths I’ve discovered around the historic sex crimes of Norval Morrisseau. Dealing in both life and death and finding this information has on most days taken its toll. It’s super stressful, ugly to look into, challenging to bring these truths forward but is no doubt the absolute right thing to do. I fully understand how hard it is to come forward and expose these experiences.
From having once felt proud and honoured to have met Norval and those around him to now having complete disdain for his art and legacy. The amount of lies and cover ups go deep. I never wanted to be involved in something like this. This whole undertaking happened to me. I was gonna find my own way through it I suppose until I discovered a total of 7 victims including myself with more to be revealed. That’s usually how it goes with these historic sex crimes from the past. More people and their stories find the light of day. It certainly takes a whole lot of courage and self determination to plow one’s way through it all. This has been my experience.
The reality that I now know and carry is that propping up sexual abusers as cultural icons is 100% wrong. I’ve also come to understand that if I don’t speak up and speak out about it, that probably nothing would get done and that these accounts would be lost in the history of time. Something that unfortunately happens to many. I had to make a serious commitment to this reality. After working with one of my hero’s in Dallas Thompson and the 4 other survivors who brought Gary Lamont to justice, this truth in me lingered on and on. It interrupted so many facets of my daily life. I couldn’t just push it down any further in me. I have had to face the facts that what happened to me is sexual assault. I never asked for Norvals hand to be down my pants touching my ass. It is my belief that Gabe Vadas was the architect of this experience. He facilitated this to happen for Norval because that’s who Norval Morrisseau was and will always be. A piece of shit sexual abuser.
Pictured here: Gabe Vadas painting Norval Morrisseau paintings (hundreds of them) image sourced from his former wife, Michelle Vadas.
Here are some questions I think the Canadian media should be asking both Gabe and his buddy in ding dong Dingle the current so-called ceo of this broken and highly dysfunctional estate. For example I know there are pictures that Norval took of a young Gabe, I seen them, I know who has them with Gabe posing for Norval (his lover not his adopted father). Dozens and dozens of images. I remember Gabe Vadas telling me what it was like to get “poked by the shaman” (his words). On what planet is it ok for your so-called adopted father to have sex with his adopted son? Why has Gabe been lying about his true history with Norval Morrisseau? He was Norvals lover, that’s who he truly was. Until Gabe wanted out, he wanted a wife and family. But before that? Norval the sex predator found Gabe on the streets as a young street hustler. It’s all made up shit about the so-called adoption. That was a cover up. With the amount of manipulation and game playing that those 2 are guilty of they had to forge a new way forward. The role of Gabe becoming manager and the new story of his adoption as father and son would become the way forward from that point on. But it isn’t the truth. He also had become Norvals pimp securing young and lost street boys from the downtown east side and other such neighborhoods where gay sex could be found and brought home to Norval.
For years these were the rituals being performed in the studio of the so-called grand shaman of the Ojibway. They would smoke crack and do lines all night day after day and would drink themselves silly until Norval would pass out, shitting his pants and leaving his mess all over the place. Ask many who were there, they know. Cory knows. Gabe knew. The family knew, that’s why the resentments. Their roles in the art fraud of their sex predator father. His brothers knew, many in our First Nations communities knew too. What do they call it: unspoken truths. Exactly. It’s a major problem in many of our communities regarding sexual predators and many of them not being held accountable. Facing justice is not only difficult for the accused, it’s even harder for the victim/survivor. To put the weight of another’s sins, dirty deeds, sex crimes and such and force the victim to come forward is perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of being a person who is a survivor. It’s not easy to hold these people accountable and having to walk through all these doors and explain yourself to people you don’t even know who are in these perceived roles of justice. Super difficult to do and being First Nations? Even harder. To have to humble yourself to such a degree in the pursuit of justice, incredible perseverance.
As they say more will be revealed and that’s exactly what is going to happen with my lawsuit. I have found things that will no doubt shift the narrative on Morrisseau forever. To tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. As ugly as that will be. It will be done. I have told these discoveries to Cory Dingle when he took on the role of ceo. (A role he told me he begged Gabe for) He’s known about my claims for 3 years now and has done absolutely nothing to address it. He instead chose to tell me in my last phone conversation at that time that he was gonna roll right over me. (His words). Imagine what kind of person you have to be to deny my claims and then after that tell me that you’re going to run right over me? Or better yet, having that knowledge and choosing to deny it to every single person you’ve done business with on behalf of the Norval Morrisseau estate from then until now?
He even went so far as sending the pedophile shaman artist to the moon, involving everyone who was apart of that including indigenous relations Canada, nasa, lunar codex, Elon musk who owns space x (that’s how it was flown in January of 2025). Imagine all the traditional First Nations grandmothers, mothers and daughters who all hold a sacred position with grandmother moon in that regard?
How will they all respond when this info gets out? I can’t even look at the moon in the same light anymore. Cory dingle destroyed that for me. A white colonizer who chose this path rather than real truth and reconciliation.
What about this so-called ceo in Cory ding dong dingle not telling the truth about my sexual assault claims then he decides it’s a great idea to do a truth and reconciliation art show with the untied church of Canada
in Toronto Ontario? How would the united church feel knowing about that? Like Dingle in so doing, would just try and hide these sexual assault claims behind the cross of Jesus? Is that what truth and reconciliation looks like to you? How would this sit with the entire united church of Canada? I think most Canadians and first nations would agree that something has to be done.This matter needs to be addressed. It affects everyone who holds the moon sacred, our customs and culture.
All those relationships he created since he became the ceo and not any of them truly knowing what was going on behind the scenes. That this story, my story and the 7 of us who were victims not being seen, not being heard and just being forgotten about. Does that look to you like someone you should be doing business with?
What about the 2 schools named after Norval Morrisseau? His order of canada? All those things will have to be addressed at some point. It’s inevitable. Like Buffy Saint- Marie, I sense that those 2 stories will indeed have a lot in common.
It’s as though I will have to be the one who has to come forward to shine the light on this. Once again, something I never asked for. That’s the hard part. I must and I will. I am ready. Unfortunately there will be names and their accounts that have to be spoken on, but that is the necessary reality when exposing such crimes. People will get hurt and it’s the unfortunate part of investigative journalism. The damages and the costs have been laid out in my statement of claim. My lawyer has figured out those realities. We are just a few days away from launching. I won’t be able to say much more on this matter and will have to pursue legal advice from here on in but there you have it.
Im fully ready to go. See you in court.
Miigwetch, Rainbow Thunderbird - MAJ ππ¦
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