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Originally Posted by trueviking
Ah. I see. I didn't think you meant a full new national museum. That would be great.
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Indigenous organizations are one of the few areas that seem to be able to leverage federal funding which is going to be needed for the Bay building redevelopment.
As others have suggested, a national museum is likely to happen somewhere in Canada for Indigenous culture, language and history.
Winnipeg is on Treaty 1 land. Treaty 1 being the first to be signed by the modern Canadian government.
Winnipeg is said to have the highest percentage of Indigenous people of the major Canadian urban centres. There are also five distinct Indigenous groups that have significant representation in Winnipeg already.
There is also something to be said about the symbolism for the former HQ of Hudsons Bay becoming a national museum of this stature.
The challenge is while the back of a napkin pitch of the idea has a lot of merit in the current societal context it very much is an idea that needs to have significant Indigenous leadership and cooperation behind it to get moving forward. I am not sure if that is there.
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