'Take responsibility': University of Manitoba sorry for housing Indigenous remains

WINNIPEG — The University of Manitoba has publicly apologized for harm it has caused to First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities more than a century after it began accepting and storing Indigenous remains.

"The University of Manitoba has to take responsibility for our role and the harms that we caused First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. And I think this apology is a step to recognize that harm and to begin moving forward with healing."Members of the anthropology department were grappling with the university's history and proposed it do something to right its wrongs, said assistant professor Lara Rosenoff Gauvin.

The earliest documentation of ancestral remains at the university is from the early 1900s, said Rosenoff Gauvin. They were taken to what was then Manitoba Medical College. Policy at the time dictated any discovered remains and artifacts be sent to the university. In most cases, nearby First Nations and Métis communities weren't consulted, said Rosenoff Gauvin.

"It was an accepted practice, and it just illustrates the depth of racism and how Indigenous people have been objectified and seen as less than human," said Pahan Pte San Win, a Red River Métis citizen and a co-chair on the University of Manitoba's remains and artifacts council.

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