Indigenous News Archive

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.