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A herd of 40 buffalos in a huge green prairie field under a big blue sky

Desautels Faculty of Music

Music by DFOM Faculty Member Melody McKiver Featured in Film by Tasha Hubbard, Singing Back the Buffalo

February 12, 2025 — 
This Wednesday, February 12, 2025, Anishinaabe composer Melody McKiver, from the UofM Desautels Faculty of Music, will join award-winning Cree filmmaker and University of Alberta faculty member Tasha Hubbard (nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, Birth of a Family) at 11:30am in 307 Tier Building in a conversation about their film Singing Back the Buffalo.

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Student readin group with coffee and books

Libraries

Indigenous Reading Circle offers Indigenous students relaxed atmosphere to discuss what they’re reading

January 10, 2025 — 
The Indigenous Reading Circle, offered by the UM Libraries and led by Indigenous Librarian Intern Claire Settee, is an opportunity for Indigenous students to bring their questions, thoughts, and feelings about their personal and academic readings to discuss with other Indigenous students in a small group setting.

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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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Elder-in-residence Norman Meade

Indigenous

Elder Norman Meade hosts Sharing Circles at the Indigenous Student Centre

September 26, 2024 — 
Elder Norman Meade hosts Sharing Circles

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