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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is located on ancestral lands, on Treaty 1 Territory. The Red River Valley is also the birthplace of the Métis. We acknowledge the water in the Museum is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

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What if you were taken from your family?

A story about Indian residential schools and their legacy

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A group of boys wearing pyjamas kneels on single beds with heads bowed and hands clasped as if in prayer. A woman stands in the room with her hands clasped in a similar manner.

Stories

Dick Patrick: An Indigenous veteran’s fight for inclusion

By Jason Permanand and Steve McCullough

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A snow-covered country road with mountains in the background.

Nursing and Indigenous peoples’ health: reconciliation in practice

By Maureen Fitzhenry

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A group of Indigenous women nurses stand together outside.

Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket

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Large artwork consisting of objects set in cedar frames.

The life and death of Elzéar Goulet

By Karine Duhamel

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Riders on horseback with arrows and lances drawn ride across a rolling prairie landscape towards a herd of buffalo.
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Events

Indigenous films and filmmakers

June 1 to 30, 2021

Cost: Free

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A person with long grey hair stands outdoors, with a rolling grassy landscape and cloudy sky in the distance.
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights

85 Israel Asper Way
Winnipeg, MB
R3C 0L5
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Exhibitions

Artivism

April 30, 2021 to January 16, 2022

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Several white plaster faces hang from strings, inside a cage.

Witness Blanket: Preserving a Legacy

April 30, 2021 to January 16, 2022

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A large horizontal art installation with a wooden frame made up of multiple diamonds and rectangles to which many objects are mounted. There is a half-opened door in the middle of the work.
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A smiling woman being filmed by a cell phone. Her image is visible on the phone's screen.

Photo: CMHR, Scott Gillam