Kloochmen’s Race, 1910
One of my favourite things to do on a road trip is stop at museums. This photo is from the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives (NVMA), a place I recently visited in Merritt, BC. I […]
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Documentation and the Metis Nation, Part 1
Brenda Macdougall A few years ago, I acquired a book, Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest: Vancouver, Vols I and II, and Stellamaris Mission (French Prairie Press, 1972), which was translated by Mikell de […]
Boy Born Has a Name
Joe Cochrane. 1965. Interviewed by Margaret Stobie. IH-MS.026b/.023a, Margaret Stobie Fonds TC 24 (A1980-17). University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood for the Indian History Film Project, Canadian Plains Research Centre, […]
Roast and Toast Invitation
History Indigenous Studies Roast and Toast Indigenous Historical Scholars! Let’s connect pre-NAISA Oklahoma! Join us to celebrate and critique the things about our disciplines that make us smile and the things that make us sigh. […]
Two Courses on Indigenous Archives
Mary Jane Logan McCallum (University of Winnipeg) and Cody Groat (Western University) Amy Lonetree writes in her book Decolonizing Museums (2012), “Museums can be very painful sites for Native peoples, as they are intimately tied […]
Rethinking Winnipeg Neighbourhood History
Mary Jane McCallum For many, Indigenous history seems to unfold somewhere else, somewhere other than where one lives now. This separation from Indigenous histories is made worse when public histories are based in inadequate, false, […]
The Issue is Fraud, not Indigenous Membership and Citizenship
By History Department Indigenization Committee, University of Winnipeg[1] In 2022, the Tri-Council[2] formed an Ad Hoc Working Group on Indigenous Citizenship and Membership (The Group) to gather information to inform a policy to address academic identity fraud. The […]
Responding to Historic Apology in an Indigenous History Classroom
Mary Jane Logan McCallum Winnipeg, 2023[1] In January and February of 2023, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (CPSM) released its “Statement and Apology on Truth and Reconciliation and Indigenous-Specific Racism in Medical […]
Step-By-Step Guide For Research into Burials Associated with Tuberculosis Treatment in Manitoba
Mary Jane Logan McCallum Winnipeg, June 2023 Have you ever been curious about family and community history but did not know where or how to begin searching for information? Together with the team at the […]
Indigenous Histories of Honorary Degrees
Mary Jane Logan McCallum Winnipeg, June 2023 Honorary Doctor of Laws, Elder, and Historian Dr. Ruth Christie speaking at the 2019 Spring Convocation, University of Winnipeg June is Indigenous History Month. It is also the time […]