Indigenous News Archive
Donor Relations
Building a brighter future through philanthropy
November 13, 2024 —
On this National Philanthropy Day, the University of Manitoba extends its deepest gratitude to all our donors. Your generosity has profoundly advanced our mission to promote learning and well-being in Manitoba, Canada and the world.
Donor Relations
Honouring the needs of Indigenous communities
November 13, 2024 —
The Steven Low Foundation aims to bring healing and hope through a gift to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
Faculty of Law
UM Faculty of Law remembers The Honourable Murray Sinclair, CC, OM, MSC
November 6, 2024 —
Senator, judge, advocate. Elder, mentor, teacher. Husband, father, grandfather. Murray Sinclair. CC, OM, MSC was many things to many people, and in everything he did, he did it with humility, conviction, and dedication. To the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, he is the reason it has grown into the law school it is today. His legacy here has shaped the Faculty’s understanding of law as a living force for transformation, healing, and justice.
Research and International
The Conversation: Canada and churches have moral obligations for the reparations of missing and disappeared Indigenous children: Final Report
November 5, 2024 —
Independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray has released her final report after two years of examining the issue of missing and disappeared Indigenous children and unmarked burials sites at residential schools in Canada.
Weaving Indigenous Heritage into Modern Design
October 29, 2024 —
Indigo Arrows, founded by Destiny Seymour [BA(Adv)/00, MID/13], an Anishinaabe interior designer from Winnipeg, is much more than a design brand—it's a cultural journey.
Celebrating the Ansininew Cohort in Inclusion and Reconciliation
October 21, 2024 —
19 Indigenous teachers are graduating with their Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Education this October
Indigenous
Mino-pimatisiwin 2024
October 10, 2024 —
The Youth Empowerment Gathering highlighted the strength of Indigenous communities and their ongoing efforts to restore the ‘good life’ for future generations
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Three Faculty of Arts students receive prestigious Vanier Scholarship
October 7, 2024 —
PhD candidates from the departments of psychology and Indigenous studies can now count themselves among Canada’s top graduate students.
Faculty of Arts
A mental health care approach rooted in Indigenous culture
October 7, 2024 —
Levasseur-Puhach plans to develop a culturally specific mental health program for Indigenous mothers based on knowledge gathered from the women themselves
Indigenous
Change through rematriation
October 7, 2024 —
Pahan PteSanWin is hopeful that her research on rematriation and reparations will be a step toward institutional and structural change so that the harms Indigenous people have faced, and continue to face on a daily basis, can stop.