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Originally Posted by pspeid
Perhaps the Universities would even consider re-locating some of their indigenous studies courses there.
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I would say if the general vision of a world class, national centre for the preservation and sharing of indigenous language, culture and history established itself in Winnipeg that it would likely be its own distinct post-secondary school/university instead of being under an existing one. That isn't to say that U of W or U of M might not transfer their existing programming to the new school, but rather that going forward it would likely be independent of them and run by the representatives from the indigenous community. It would also likely be a close partner with U of W, perhaps through a reciprocal credit agreement which would allow students from the new school to get core courses from U of W without needing all the visiting student paperwork and costs.
Another aspect I forgot to include before but would make sense would be a library with materials in the indigenous languages.
As I said before I am somewhat aware enough of the general trends on these issues but no where close enough to actually influence it. It is also the sort of project that could reasonable access the type of government funding that would be needed to make the project happen. And while it wouldn't have the same impact as straight residential it would bring a reasonable number of people to downtown on a regular basis.