Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 75

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Manitoba"

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June 4, 2023


Manitoba First Nation and Colombian researchers discuss ‘forensics of care’ in their work on unmarked graves

Sioux Valley Dakota Nation exchanges knowledge with committee for Colombian massacre victims WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: A southwestern Manitoba First Nation connected with visitors from Colombia this weekend to better inform its ongoing research into unmarked graves at a former residential school. Sioux Valley Dakota Nation hosted delegates from the Committee for the Rights of...

June 15, 2022


Manitoba Government allocates $2.5 Million for the Identification, Commemoration and Protection of Burial Sites of Children Who Attended Residential Schools

NationTalk: The Manitoba government and the First Nations, Inuit and Red River Métis Council on Residential Schools is allocating $2.5 million to Indigenous governments and organizations to co-develop Indigenous-led approaches to find and memorialize missing children and promote collective healing and reconciliatory action, Premier Heather Stefanson and Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations Minister Alan Lagimodiere...

March 23, 2022


$2.5M in funding to Indigenous communities

Govt. of Manitoba – The Manitoba government has committed $2.5 million to support the identification, investigation, protection and commemoration of the children who died attending residential schools. To date, the Government of Canada has provided $3.9 million to Indigenous communities within Manitoba. As of December 2021, six First Nation communities in Manitoba are actively carrying out...

July 28, 2021


Fort Alexander IRS

Toronto Star – RCMP have been conducting a “large-scale, years long criminal investigation into sexual abuse allegations” beginning in 2010. The school operated from 1905 until 1970 under the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who also ran all the other residential schools where unmarked graves were discovered....

June 10, 2021


Brandon Indian Residential School Cemeteries project

APTN – The Sioux Valley Dakota Nation in Manitoba is partnered with the University of Windsor, Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Brandon University for the Brandon Residential Schools Cemeteries Project. “While employing archeological survey techniques, geophysical technologies, survival recounts and archival documents, our investigation has identified 104 potential graves in all three cemeteries, and that only 78...

August 28, 2018


Brandon Indian Residential School

Grand Chief Arlen Dumas of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs wants the city of Brandon to protect the unmarked graves that are now part of a RV campsite....

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