BBC: How to experience Winnipeg’s Indigenous culture

We asked Niigaan Sinclair, professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, to tell us the best places where visitors can explore Winnipeg’s Indigenous history. For Sinclair, a member of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) Nation, Winnipeg remains an epicentre of Indigenous values. And because the city is home to the largest Indigenous population in Canada, where one in five people are Indigenous, he believes it is ground zero for reconciliation between cultures.

“Name me a place where reconciliation has been in activity the longest, and it’s Manitoba,” says Sinclair, noting the first of the numbered treaties (Treaty 1) between the Canadian government and Canada’s Indigenous people was signed in 1871 at Lower Fort Garry, 20 miles north of Winnipeg. “I do all the things that I do because I think Winnipeg is a remarkable place.” 

The full article can he be found here on the BBC page.