Shoal Lake pushing to be part of human rights museum

APTN National News
Just before the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights recently members of Shoal Lake rallied to be heard.

They want to be seen too – as a regular exhibit at the museum.

For over 100 years residents of the Manitoba First Nation, about 200 km east of Winnipeg, have been living in forced isolation.

There’s no running water or sewage.

According to APTN’s Dennis Ward meetings between the chief and museum officials are underway.

 

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