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Morgan was born in Gitwangak in 1930, but was sent to the residential school in Port Alberni when she was 14. She began drawing and painting at 16 in the art class of a retired art teacher George Sinclair, and had her work exhibited in student exhibitions beginning in 1947. In 1949 Morgan showed 20 of her paintings, depicting traditional Gitxsan life, at the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa. In 1950 she received a scholarship to attend Cottey Junior College in Missouri, US, and then to attend the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. In 1983 she moved back to Gitwangak and continued to teach art, as well as Gitksan language studies. In 1995 her husband built her a studio and gallery called "The Gitksan Paintbrush." At the age of 75 she received a Masters Degree from the University of Northern BC. Morgan donated a copy of her book "Git Skee'een Niidiit: People of the Skeena River" to the MOA Library in 2004.

Born: 1930
Died: 2016-06-30