Exploring Theme: "Systemic Racism"

NationTalk: BARRIE, ON – The Chiefs of the Anishinabek Nation Southeast Region are calling attention to the recently discovered vandalism of a Sacred Site in Bon Echo Provincial Park. Mazinaw Rock has been a designated national historic site of Canada since 1982. It is the largest rock pictograph site on the southern Canadian Shield and...

APTN News: It was not the meeting Greg Hill expected. “I go into it cold not expecting anything like that,” the former Indigenous art curator at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa said. “I was anticipating a discussion I’ve wanted to have and trying to have for a long time. Trying to understand how we’re...

The Globe and Mail: The National Gallery of Canada has laid off four senior staff members including Greg A. Hill, its curator of Indigenous art, and chief curator Kitty Scott. The gallery has experienced a period of uncertainty in the wake of the departure of director Sasha Suda in July. She left only a year after unveiling a strategic...

The First Nations Leadership Council – FNLC is disturbed by several recent media reports outlining ongoing systemic racism and toxic working conditions within the Royal BC Museum (RBCM), a crown corporation established under the Museum Act (2003). Lucy Bell, former head of the Indigenous Collections and Repatriation department, who, in an outgoing farewell speech noted...

Canadian Museum for Human Rights has released the interim report of the independent third-party review into allegations of systemic racism and other forms of oppression within the Museum. Harris’ report identifies systemic racism within the Museum which has had a negative physical, emotional and financial impact on employees who are Black, Indigenous or People of...