Dr. Sean Carleton, a historian and Indigenous studies scholar from the University of Manitoba, said Ms. Murray’s report highlights a tool kit for truth and reconciliation that could help Canadians.

Criminalizing residential school denialism as a hate crime is an example of one of those tools, he said. Canadians have a long history of ignoring the truth, he added, suggesting that reports such as the one produced by Ms. Murray are invitations to change a pattern of behaviour.

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We asked Niigaan Sinclair, professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, to tell us the best places where visitors can explore Winnipeg’s Indigenous history. For Sinclair, a member of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) Nation, Winnipeg remains an epicentre of Indigenous values. And because the city is home to the largest Indigenous population in Canada, where one in five people are Indigenous, he believes it is ground zero for reconciliation between cultures.

“Name me a place where reconciliation has been in activity the longest, and it’s Manitoba,” says Sinclair, noting the first of the numbered treaties (Treaty 1) between the Canadian government and Canada’s Indigenous people was signed in 1871 at Lower Fort Garry, 20 miles north of Winnipeg. “I do all the things that I do because I think Winnipeg is a remarkable place.” 

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