HIST 2616 Open Classroom Lecture with Anne Lindsay: Challenging Histories

Watch Dr. Anne Lindsay's lecture “Challenging Histories: The Search for the Missing Children and Unmarked Burials Associated with Indian Residential Schools in Canada” which took place March 28, 2025. Anne Lindsay is both an Archivist and a Historian who has been involved for many years in identifying and honouring children buried in Indian Residential School cemeteries. She has worked for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, and for the Office of the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools. As a co-investigator with the Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project, Dr. Lindsay has contributed substantially to the creation of a guide designed to support families and researchers searching for relatives who were sent to Indian Hospitals and Sanatoria in Manitoba and never returned home. She is currently working on a similar style of guide for Residential School students.

Video Clip Credits:
12:41: ATPN News, Darrell Stranger, "Indigenous TB project in Manitoba helps First Nations man find his mother": https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news...
40:45: Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre (MFNCRC), "A Cup of Cold Water - Documentary." Visit MFNERC’s website at www.mfnerc.org and MFNERC’s YouTube page at    / @mfnerc1  .

This lecture took place as part of an open classroom lecture series in partnership with Dr. Mary Jane Logan McCallum HIST 2616 History of Indigenous Education: Residential Schools and Beyond course at the University of Winnipeg in Winter 2025. The series is sponsored by Canada Research Chair in Indigenous People, History and Archives