Tag: history

Museus de História de Toronto lançam nova programação virtual do Mês dos Povos Indígenas

Os Museus de História de Toronto exploram a presença duradoura dos povos indígenas em Toronto. Foto – In the Steps of our Ancestors (Nos Passos dos nossos Antepassados).

O lançamento oficial do Mês dos Povos Indígenas nos Museus de História de Toronto, um grupo de 10 museus pertencentes e operados pela cidade de Toronto, teve lugar esta terça-feira (1 de junho).

A celebração online com duração de um mês incluirá guias, um programa de culinária, uma experiência de compra que inclui produtos de artistas e autores indígenas, e apresentações de filmes e dança de artistas emergentes e consagrados.

Toronto History Museums launches new virtual Indigenous Peoples Month Programming

Photo credit: Toronto History Museums, “A portrait in Red” by filmmaker Alex Lazarowich.

The official launch of Indigenous Peoples Month at Toronto History Museums, a group of 10 museums owned and operated by the City of Toronto, took place this Tuesday (June 1).

The month-long online celebration will include tours, a culinary program, a shop experience that includes products from Indigenous artists and authors, and film and dance performances by emerging and established artists.

The remains of 215 children in a mass grave, Trudeau: “Shameful chapter in the history of Canada”

“A dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history”: this is how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commented, on Twitter, the news of the discovery of the remains of 215 children in a mass grave near the Kamloops Indian Residential School (in the pic above, in 1970) in British Columbia: a institute opened in the late 1800s and closed in 1978, which was part of the network of schools founded by the government and mainly administered by Catholic churches (in the case of Kamloops, the management came under the control of the government in the second half of the 1960s), at the aim to “separate” the children of the indigenous people from their culture to “assimilate” them into the dominant culture.