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The exhibit features Ojibway stories scribed on birch scrolls as told and made by Ojibway traditionalist, Richard LaFromboise, who is from the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation near Dunseith, North Dakota.  Birch bark scrolls, or pictographic scrolls, serve as memory aids to correctly and completely tell the traditional stories through an elaborate series of symbols called pictographs.  Pictographic scrolls are a very rare art form and are preserved today in the hands of a few individuals known as "keepers of the Scrolls", such as Richard LaFromboise.  The stories are expressions of Ojibway culture to teach lessons, morals, and values to children as well as adults, and this exhibit is a significant step in the preservation and continuation of this tradition.