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Law student Rayanna Seymour and professors Katherine Starzyk and Karen Busby (left to right) are studying which strategies work best when advocating for drinking water rights. (Photo by Victoria Grima.)

From the lab to the reserve

June 6, 2017 — 
Science and engineering students breaking out of the lab and heading for First Nation reserves to put their education into action got some tips from those who have walked that path before them

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM launches Ongomiizwin—an Indigenous institute that will clear a path for generations to come

June 5, 2017 — 
A special day in the life of the university began with a ceremony in the Medicine Garden/Mashkiki Gitigaan on the Bannatyne campus

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Indigenous voices to inform children’s oral health program

June 5, 2017 — 
Study will consult Indigenous communities on how to enhance Healthy Smile Happy Child program.

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Mario Phaneuf will receive the Governor General’s Silver Medal for outstanding achievement at the undergraduate level.

Celebrating 140 years of our graduates

June 5, 2017 — 
It is highly significant that the identification of the U of M's first graduate as Métis coincided with this year’s awarding of the Governor General’s Silver Medal

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File image of the Medicine Garden (Mashkiki Gitigaan) groundbreaking ceremony.

U of M launches Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing

June 1, 2017 — 
June 2 is a landmark day as the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences launches its Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing-Ongomiizwin

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William Reginald Gunn, the first University of Manitoba graduate, in 1880.

An investigation into the university’s early graduates

June 1, 2017 — 
It's been confirmed that first U of M graduate was Métis

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On Feb. 17, 2017, the Métis flag will be raised at University Centre at 10:30 a.m.

Elevating Métis voices

May 29, 2017 — 
Laura Forsythe named Métis Inclusion Coordinator

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Assiniboia Indian Residential High School.

Assiniboia Residential School Survivors plan reunion and commemorative event in Winnipeg

May 24, 2017 — 
Survivors from the Assiniboia Indian Residential High School and River Heights community members will gather in Winnipeg June 23-24, 2017

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Indigenous Institute to be launched with celebration, dialogue

May 23, 2017 — 
The official launch of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences’ Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing (Ongomiizwin) on June 2 will be a day-long gathering at which everyone is welcome

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CBC: Indigenous writers urge communities to reclaim own voices

May 16, 2017 — 
"Apologies are good, but we get apologies all the time as Indigenous people, and nothing really changes," says Niigaan Sinclair

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