Premier in Portage as MB gives $2.5 million for Indigenous-led missing children efforts – PortageOnline.com
Jun 16 2022
The Manitoba government and the First Nations, Inuit and Red River Métis Council on Residential Schools are allocating $2.5 million to Indigenous governments and organizations to co-develop Indigenous-led approaches to find and memorialize missing children and promote collective healing and reconciliatory action. The news came yesterday (Wednesday, June 15th) along with the announcement at Portage la Prairie’s former residential school.
Premier Heather Stefanson spoke on location.
“It was an incredibly moving ceremony today,” says Stefanson. “I think what is so important about this is that it’s the First Nations community with the Métis community, with the Inuit community and everyone is here together. That was mentioned several times in many of the speeches today. Many people haven’t been a part of that before, where it’s all communities working together toward reconciliation. So it’s very, very humbled to be a part of this.”
