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Press Release / Dave Courchene, President / Manitoba Indian Brotherhood / Winnipeg, Manitoba. - 26 June 1969.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dave Courchene
This press release expresses the Manitoba Aboriginal organization's "bitterness, frustration and anger" with the Federal Government's "White Paper." Courchene calls for meetings with Aboriginal leaders in Manitoba to present alternatives from the "cultural genocide" he believes will occur if the "White Paper" becomes law.

Historical note:

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Prevalence and Predictors of Inadequate Prenatal Care: A Comparison of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women in Manitoba

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maureen I. Heaman
Annette L. Gupton
Michael E. K. Moffatt
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, vol. 27, no. 3, March 2005, pp. 237-246
Study concluded that women who did not receive adequate care were more likely to live in poverty, have highly stressed lives, low levels of self-esteem and Aboriginal, and that racial disparities needed to be addressed.
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Profile of Effective Practice: Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brendan Reimer
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 5, no. 1, Fall, 2006, pp. 14-21
Looks at Canada's first and largest major urban First Nations child and family support program in Winnipeg, Manitoba. [One or more images have been omitted from this article due to copyright restrictions. These images are accessible in the print version of this journal]
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Protecting Our Women Needs Assessment

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tessa Jourdain
Shauna Fontaine
Conducted to inform project involving creation of a Protecting Our Women Safety Plan and Toolkit for use in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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The Provincial Implementation Team Report on the Recommendations of the Brian Sinclair Inquest Report: 90 Day Report

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Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Karen Herd
Jean Cox
Bernadette Preun
Avis Gray
Beth Beaupre
Barry Mathers ... [et al.]
Outlines actions taken by team, and the short-, medium- and long-term plans for assessment and implementation of recommendations from the inquest into death of man who died while waiting to receive treatment in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency department.
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Public Attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian Prairie Urbanism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ryan Walker
Loleen Berdahl
Erin Lashta
David Newhouse
Yale Belanger
Canadian Geographer, vol. 61, no. 2, 2017, pp. 212-223
Uses 2014 survey data collected from non- Indigenous residents of seven cities. Respondents were asked about a stronger Indigenous presence in governance and public places.
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Racism in Winnipeg

Alternate Title
About Canada: Poverty
In Their Own Voices: Building Urban Aboriginal Communities
Moving Forward, Giving Back: Transformative Aboriginal Adult Education
Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police
Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin: An Aboriginal Approach to Helping
Walking This Path Together: Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice
“Indians Wear Red”: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs
E-Books
Author/Creator
Michael Hart
Darlene Klyne
Joan Hay
Parvin Shorashi
Jim Silver ... [et al.]
Excerpts from books previously published by the same publisher.
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Reader's Theatre: Grade 2 Social Studies: The Signing of Treaty Six

Alternate Title
Reader's Theatre: The Signing of Treaty 6 FNMI
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jade Ballek
Melissa Lander

Four scenes, each taking place at a different location (Ottawa, Fort Garry, outside Fort Carleton and Fort Carleton) and involving individuals significant to the negotiations such as Governor Alexander Morris, James McKay, Chief Ahatahkakoop, Chief Mistawasis, Poundmaker and Peter Erasmus. Includes discussion questions and short biographies.

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Rebellion, 1885 - Order book of the North-West Field Force.

Archival » Archival Items
Order book of the North-West Field Force, with Winnipeg being the first entry. Entries made from (all NWT / SK) Troy (Qu'Appelle), Fort Qu'Appelle and area, Humboldt, Clark's Crossing, Fish Creek, Gabriel's Crossing, Birch Hills, Batoche, Lepine, Prince Albert, while on board the steamer "North West," Battleford, Fort Pitt, while on board the steamer "Marquis"; (all NWT / MB) Cedar Lake, while on board the steamer "Princess," ending at Selkirk, MB. Entries made by Colonel Houghton, Lord Melgund, General Middleton's Chief of Staff, and a third unidentified officer.
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Reconciliation Relations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dylan Robinson
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 161, Winter, 2015, pp. 60-63
Examines the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's central space for testimony, the Commissioners Sharing Panel.
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Reconciliation: What Needs to Happen Next?

Alternate Title
Visionary Conversations Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Nahanni Fontaine
Tina Keeper
Lenard Monkman
Ry Moran
Panel discussion about moving from theory to action in reconciliation. Duration: 1:30:11.
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Reconciling Indigenous Need With the Urban Welfare State? Evidence of Culturally-appropriate Services and Spaces for Aboriginals in Winnipeg, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Geoffrey DeVerteuil
Kathi Wilson
Geoforum, vol. 41, no. 3, May 2010, pp. 498-507
Discussion on the effectiveness of a non-Aboriginal recovery system and the provision of culturally appropriate services and programs to meet the needs of Aboriginal people.
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Recovery of Saskatoon Artifacts Sent to Winnipeg

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, October 26, 1981 regarding certain archaeological and anthropological pre-European contact artifacts from the Saskatoon area that were given to depositories in Winnipeg, and some that reside at the University of Saskatchewan. Reference is made to an associated document further discussing these matters.
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Red River Rendezvous

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Julijana Capone
The Beaver, vol. 90, no. 1, February/March 2010, p. 27
Description of the annual event, Festival du Voyageur, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba's French Quarter to celebrate the fur trade era.
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Red River Resistance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Manitoba History, no. 29, Spring, 1995, p. [?]
Text taken from a brochure produced by Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship summarizes events which took place in 1869-1870 in and around Winnipeg.
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Renwick - For Urban Shaman

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Loren Roberts
ConunDrumOnline, vol. 3, June 2006, p. [?]
Discusses Arthur Renwick's exhibit featuring wildlife and landscape photographs.
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Reporting Métis in Urban Centres on the 1996 Census

Alternate Title
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Lorna Jantzen
vol. 1

Argues that combining concepts of ethnic origin and Métis identity would provide a more complete picture of the population. Looks at statistics for Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver.

Chapter five from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1 which is also vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

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Request for the City of Saskatoon to send a Representative to Batoche

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Tuesday, February 19, 1980 regarding a request from Parks Canada that a representative of the City attend an open house on the direction of future developments at Batoche National Historic Site.
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Riel Country

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Martin Duckworth
Film highlights play put on by high school Aboriginal students from Winnipeg's North End and Francophone students from Saint-Boniface. Discussion follows. Accompanying material: Riel Country: [Study Guide]. Duration: 49:05.
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The Riel Deal

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Clark
Canada's History, vol. 91, no. 1, February/March 2011, pp. 57-58
Looks at the St. Boniface Museum which holds the largest collection of artifacts relating to Louis Riel including a few strands of his beard.
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Riel et la Naissance du Manitoba - 1921.

Documents & Presentations
A brochure (en francais) put out by L'Union Nationale Metisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba in commemoration of Louis Riel's contribution towards the birth of Manitoba. Contains historical information on the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870 from an early twentieth century Metis perspective as well as historical notes on the Metis of the North West by Judge L.A. Prudhomme.
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Riel Project / Bulletin / du Projet Riel - No.7. - May / Mai.1982.

Articles » General
Article subjects include the Project's progress on publication of Riel volumes, and theft of Riel documents from a Winnipeg court house..

Historical note:

The purpose of the Riel project is to publish a critical edition of all the writings of Louis Riel. The edition is to present a printed version faithful to what Riel himself wrote, being "critical" in the sense that errors will be noted, variants recorded, and annotations furnished. In English / French.
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Right to a Healthy City? Examining the Relationship between Urban Space and Health Inequity by Aboriginal Youth Artist-Activists in Winnipeg

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emily Skinner
Jeffrey R. Masuda
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 91, August 2013, pp. 210-218
Two broad themes emerged: factors that limited mobility within neighbourhoods, including perceptions of health/safety threats or barriers, and factors which limited movement in the larger city.
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