Top left image: Indigenous Day Live (Photo: APTN)
Top right image: Statue of Louis Riel in Saint Boniface (Photo: Tyler Walsh)
Bottom right image: Wyndham Garden (Photo: Maddy Reico)
INDIGENOUS CONNECTIONS
The word Winnipeg means "muddy water" in Cree. The city was
established at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers
—The Forks— a meeting place for more than 6,000 years and
Winnipeg's most visited tourist destination.
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), the first
national Indigenous broadcaster in the world, is headquartered
in Winnipeg.
Winnipeg is home to the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of Canada, which continues to document the
residential school system while moving the country forward
through reconciliation and calls to action.
Located on Treaty 1 territory on Long Plain Madison Reserve
– the city's first urban reserve – is the Wyndham Garden
Winnipeg Airport. The stylish 132-room property is owned
by the Long Plain First Nation and it features Manoomin
restaurant (which means wild rice in Ojibway), service
in Ojibway and English, locally made Indigenous gifts, a
Knowledge Keepers' gathering room for Elders, spaces built
for ceremony and a waterslide too!
