Indigenous News Archive
Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning April Workshops
March 19, 2025 —
Check out the variety of workshops scheduled for April, offered by The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning!
Research and International
The Conversation: Can a virtual reality residential school, developed with Survivors, improve empathy toward Indigenous people?
March 18, 2025 —
Virtual reality is a rapidly developing technology. As the technology expands, becoming more portable and affordable, the potential uses have expanded as well.
Summer Institute on Literacy in Indigenous Content open to UM faculty and staff
March 14, 2025 —
The Summer Institute on Literacy in Indigenous Content is an enriching professional development opportunity for UM faculty and staff.
Students
Social Justice Hub fosters student community-building and organizing skills
March 13, 2025 —
Community Engaged Learning has launched the Social Justice Hub, a new site and resource for learning about social justice, anti-oppression, community organizing, and equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (EDIA), as well as a safer space for community-building amongst and between systemically marginalized communities and allied learners.
Faculty of Social Work
Funding awarded to examine racism and colonialism in Manitoba institutions impacting HIV/STBBI outcomes
March 13, 2025 —
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has award $125,000 in funding for a community-led project that aims to tackle the harmful effects of racism and colonialism in Manitoba’s systems that are leading to increased HIV risks. UM researcher Dr. Rusty Souleymanov, associate dean and associate professor, faculty of social work, and director, Village Lab, is leading a team of stakeholders, scholars, and community leaders from across Canada in research that will drive structural change by fostering policy reforms, anti-racist health systems, and community-led solutions. This project titled “Community-Led Structural Interventions to Improve HIV/STBBI Outcomes and Dismantle Structural Racism and Colonialism Affecting Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Communities in Manitoba” was ranked top 3rd in applications submitted to CIHR’s Moving Upstream: Structural Determinants of Health - Catalyst Grants.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
‘You have to get the stories of the patients,’ says Métis health-care researcher
March 12, 2025 —
College of Pharmacy grad student Cameron Bouchard is planning a study of the health-care experiences of Manitoban Métis people living with congenital heart disease.
Indigenous
Transforming spaces for generations to follow
March 7, 2025 —
Graduate student and Anthropology professor collaborate on art installation
Faculty of Arts
Indigenous political representatives exist in two, often conflicting, worlds
February 25, 2025 —
Two University of Manitoba political studies researchers have won the John McMenemy Prize for best academic article from the Canadian Journal of Political Science. The article, “Indigenous Political Representation in Canada” analyzes how aboriginal people elected to provincial legislatures and federal Parliament negotiate the driving force behind their political commitment to the challenge of providing aboriginal representation in Canada’s legislative institutions.
Indigenous
The power of community and shared leadership
February 21, 2025 —
The university experience extends beyond textbooks and lectures—it’s also about building community, igniting change and shaping the future.
Research and International
The Conversation: Living to tell the story: Lawsuit accuses ER doctor of anti-indigenous racism
February 13, 2025 —
On Jan. 15, 2023, Justin Flett arrived at the emergency room at St. Anthony’s Hospital, in The Pas, Manitoba. According to Flett’s statement of claim, submitted to the Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba in December and as reported by CBC News and APTN, he told the triage nurse he was experiencing distressing abdominal pain.