At her art studio in Baudette, Ojibwe artist Cindy Godin Hamilton said she never dreamed learning to sew doll clothes as a child would one day lead to her own exhibit.

“It wasn’t until the late ‘90s that I started working on my genealogy, and a family member had sent me a picture of my great-grandmother, and she was wearing her pointy toed moccasins,” she said. “Something just clicked with me. And I just was like, ‘I have to learn how to make those.’”

Godin Hamilton didn’t know it at the time, but that photograph of her great-grandmother from the early 1900s, Marie Morrisseau Godin, would become the impetus for her artistic and cultural awakening.

At the time Godin Hamilton was living in California with her husband who was stationed there with the Navy. She said she couldn’t find anyone

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