Here, look at a picture of the building from earlier, when the turtlehead had polychrome paints. The geodesic dome at the left represents the turtle's shell. Turtle Island is a name for North America.
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In Niagara Falls, New York, on June 9th, 2021, at the former Native American Center for the Living Arts (built from 1977 to 1981; designed by Dennis Sun Rhodes from a concept by Duffy Wilson; closed in 1995) on the east side of Old Main Street, north of Buffalo Avenue.
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