The museum has been criticized for its approach to Indigenous history, and employees of colour have shared stories of racism and censorship.
WINNIPEG — Wanda Robson smiled wide as she clutched a $10 bill with a familiar face on the side — her sister, Viola Desmond, a Black woman and civil rights pioneer.
The museum stands tall near the meeting place of two rivers, important ancestral lands for several Indigenous communities for thousands of years. ″ the worst case of legal destruction of the rich heritage that I have had the misfortune to witness,” Leigh Syms, a former archeology curator at the nearby Manitoba Museum, said in a book “The Idea of a Human Rights Museum.”
The museum’s first CEO, Stuart Murray, was a former leader of the Progressive Conservatives in Manitoba. Concerns arose that stories about Canada’s historic Indigenous policies such as residential schools would be softened. Clashes began over the use of the word “genocide” in regard to Indigenous people.
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