Indigenous News Archive
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Hundreds walk in solidarity for Orange Shirt Day
October 4, 2019 —
Over 200 people, including students, staff and faculty from the College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Education, dressed in orange and walked in solidarity for those affected by Canada’s residential school system.
Students
Join the post-secondary team, learn from the land
October 3, 2019 —
The Land and Water program brings together R. B. Russell Vocational High School students with a post-secondary team to engage in Indigenous land-based programming.
UM to establish university-wide Indigenous leadership structure
October 2, 2019 —
Vice-President (Indigenous) position has been approved as first step
4,037 Indigenous children listed in Memorial Register
October 2, 2019 —
Funded by Canadian Heritage through APTN, a cloth displaying the names of 2,800 Residential School students who never made it home was displayed during the deeply moving ceremony
Food Systems Research Group
Do you want food system change on campus?
October 1, 2019 —
To celebrate World Food Day at the University of Manitoba, the Food Systems Research Group, in collaboration with the Winnipeg Food Council, is holding a campus food system transformation workshop Oct 16.
President Barnard’s message on Orange Shirt Day
September 26, 2019 —
Our University is committed to and engaged in the process of advancing reconciliation – a journey that is progressing, but far from over
The Keystone Professional: University of Manitoba’s Design Build Collaboration with Shoal Lake 40
September 24, 2019 —
Eleven students from the two faculties had the unique opportunity to work with Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, an Indigenous community located on Shoal Lake at the Manitoba and Ontario border to collaboratively design and build a feasting pavilion that acts as a place of celebration and memorial, a project chosen by the community
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
International students use video to share First Nations community research
September 18, 2019 —
Two College of Nursing students originally from Nigeria took part in a workshop with youth in Little Saskatchewan First Nation this summer that explored video as a way to share the community’s continuing struggles following a devastating 2011 flood.
Health gap between First Nations and other Manitobans widening, study finds
September 17, 2019 —
A joint study by the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba and the U of M’s Manitoba Centre for Health Policy finds health inequities are getting worse.
Faculty of Science
Meet visiting Indigenous scholar Dr. Roger Dube
September 16, 2019 —
The year Princeton awarded a PhD in Physics to Roger Dube, he was one of only two Indigenous Americans who earned this honor from any U.S. university.