National Day for Truth and Reconciliation News Archive
![A crowd of students, faculty and university staff walk past the University of Manitoba administration building wearing orange shirts.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DSC_0746-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Every Child Matters
September 28, 2022 —
On September 29, hundreds of Rady Faculty of Health Sciences students, staff and faculty will observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Bannatyne and Fort Gary campuses honouring residential school survivors, acknowledging systemic racism in the health care system and the important role health-care professionals play in providing equitable mental, physical and emotional health care to every patient.
![tréchelle bunn pictured outdoors, birdtail valley](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Tréchelle-Bunn_in-Birdtail-Valley-150x150.jpg)
Indigenous student-athlete shows community that movement is medicine
September 27, 2022 —
The Reconciliation Run, organized by Indigenous student-athlete Tréchelle Bunn, is scheduled to take place on September 30 in Birtle, MB. Registration is still open with an option to participate virtually for those not able to make the trip to Birtle on Friday.
![Alex Bird (second from the left) and his siblings from the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation were among the first students to attend this public school, near Prince George, B.C., in the early 1910s. (Royal B.C. Museum, Image B-00342, British Columbia Archives)](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/South-Fort-George-School-The-Conversation-150x150.jpg)
Research and International
Reckoning with the history of public schooling and settler colonialism
September 26, 2022 —
Part of the “complex truth” behind reconciliation is understanding that public schooling has also played an important role in settler colonialism in Canada.
![Survivor flag at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/NCTR-Survivor-Flag-150x150.jpg)
Indigenous
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events
September 23, 2022 —
There are many opportunities to engage in a day of reflection leading up to and on the day itself both at UM, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) and off-campus.
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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Delivering truth in the name of Reconciliation
September 23, 2022 —
Responding to Call to Action #19, Wanda Phillips-Beck studied the health care policy known as “out for confinement".
![A sunset over a dirt road with swirling floral white embroidery superimposed on it and the words 'Taking up the work of reconciliation.'](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/reconciliation-feature-image-sunset-embroidery-150x150.jpg)
Research and International
Taking up the work of Reconciliation
May 17, 2022 —
How a new measuring tool based on research can push us further down the path to good and just relations