Justice Murray Sinclair, who was Manitoba’s first Indigenous judge, led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and served as a senator, stands in the ballroom at Rideau Hall after being invested as a companion of the Order of Canada and receiving a Meritorious Service Decoration (Civil Division), in Ottawa, on Thursday, May 26, 2022.
Murray Sinclair, the Anishinaabe senator and renowned Manitoba lawyer who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has died.Justice Murray Sinclair, who was Manitoba’s first Indigenous judge, led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and served as a senator, stands in the ballroom at Rideau Hall after being invested as a companion of the Order of Canada and receiving a Meritorious Service Decoration , in Ottawa on May 26, 2022.
"We know that stories of his kindness, generosity and fairness will circulate for generations to come." "We were raised, in fact, to believe that nothing that our culture offered us or our people, offered us as a people, had any merit anymore. We were raised to believe, in fact, that it was our obligation, in fact it was our responsibility, it was our problem, to overcome our Indianness."
Reflecting years later on his early legal career, Sinclair said he "loved the courtroom" and would attend court whenever he could, even when he wasn't involved in a trial. Sinclair said his wife convinced him to ask his community for advice before quitting. He later recalled that a long conversation with an elder from his community convinced him to reconnect with his Indigenous identity and try again.Truth and Reconciliation Commission urges Canada to confront 'cultural genocide' of residential schools
After visiting more than 300 communities and speaking to more than 7,000 Indigenous men and women over a six-year period, the commission came to the conclusion that Canada had engaged in acts of "cultural genocide."
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