Every Child Matters

A crowd of students, faculty and university staff walk past the University of Manitoba administration building wearing orange shirts.

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.

Indigenous, Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

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tréchelle bunn pictured outdoors, birdtail valley

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.

Advancing Reconciliation and Promoting Indigenous Achievement, Bisons, Campus and Community, Faculty of Arts, Indigenous, Indigenous Awards of Excellence, national day for truth and reconciliation, Students

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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)

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.

Advancing Reconciliation and Promoting Indigenous Achievement, Faculty of Arts, Indigenous, national day for truth and reconciliation, Reconciliation, Research and International, The Conversation

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Survivor flag at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

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.

#UMIndigenous, Indigenous, Indigenous engagement, national day for truth and reconciliation, NCTR

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