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Shoppers browsing a student-vendors collection of bead work at the Indigenous Winter Market

Students

Building Community, Crafting Success

December 5, 2024 — 
The third annual Indigenous Winter Market—a one-day event with the goal of showcasing the incredible talent, creativity and culture of First Nations, Métis and Inuit students at UM.

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Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Examining deficit thinking and moving to strength-based strategies to better work with Indigenous students

November 28, 2024 — 
UM faculty are invited to a workshop to learn about how historical events and policies have shaped deficit thinking, and how this impacts Indigenous students in education spaces. Deficit Thinking and Strengths-Based Approaches in the Classroom When Working With Indigenous Students takes place on Wednesday, January 15 from 9 am - 12 pm online.

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Three students stand in front of a sundance lodge.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Sundances offer students ‘crash course in culture’

November 27, 2024 — 
A program through the Office of Interprofessional Collaboration (OIPC) at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences is helping students connect with Indigenous communities through ceremony. 

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Dr. Marcia Anderson speaks at a podium as other speakers look on.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

New training for Manitoba health workers to focus on culturally safe care for Indigenous patients

November 26, 2024 — 
A program designed to ensure that Manitoba health-care workers provide culturally safe care to Indigenous patients has been developed by Ongomiizwin, the Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing in UM’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, in partnership with Manitoba’s health system organizations.

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Photo of 2024 VIBE Awards Gala program on table top beside tent card of L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic

Faculty of Law

Collaborative Pathways: Visionary Indigenous Business Excellence (VIBE) Awards

November 25, 2024 — 
On November 14, 2024, students from the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and the Indigenous Business Education Partners (IBEP) at the Asper School of Business came together at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg to celebrate the 18th annual Visionary Indigenous Business Excellence (VIBE) Awards. The event, hosted by IBEP, coincided with the 30th anniversary of IBEP, marking three decades of fostering community, education, and Indigenous business leadership.

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Seated at a desk, Dr. Chelsea Gabel speaks.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Indigenous health researchers focus on ‘changing the narrative’

November 22, 2024 — 
Speakers at the recent Indigenous Health Research Symposium at UM reflected on the theme "Changing the Narrative."

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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.

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Steven Low

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 

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2014 Knight Lecture - Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair

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.

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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.

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