Upcoming Events

MAY 2025

Doors Open Winnipeg – May 24th and 25th 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Doors Open Winnipeg gives visitors a chance to explore the heritage buildings, cultural institutions, and historic streetscapes of Winnipeg.

Here’s what you can expect at the Agowiidiwinan Centre:

Guided tours by our knowledgeable staff
Interactive activities for all ages
Delicious bannock and tea

On Sunday, May 25th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saskatchewan’s Office of the Treaty Commission will premiere Voices of Treaty Four, Commemorating 150 years.

JUNE 2025

TRCM Speakers Bureau Lunch and Learn Session – Wednesday, June 18, 2025 – 12:00 PM-1:00PM

TOPIC: The Peguis-Selkirk Treaty 1817

When Dr. Maureen Matthews, former Curator of Cultural Anthropology at the Manitoba Museum, was hired in 2011, her very first task was to help develop an exhibit about the 2012 200^th Anniversary of the arrival of seventy Selkirk Settlers to the Red River colony. These highland refugees had a miserable time for the first three years, and it wasn’t until Thomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk, came in person and made a Treaty with the First Nations in the area, that things began to change for the better.

At the time of the treaty there were 181 free-traders and Metis people at the Forks in an area that was also home to about 7,500 Assiniboine people, 1,260 Cree and about 800 Anishinaabe people. Lord Selkirk recognized that First Nations residents had title to the land and that to stabilize the settlement a treaty was the only way forward. The Peguis Selkirk Treaty is the first treaty in Western Canada that concerns land rights. It describes the land, a thin strip along the rivers, where the settlers could establish farms, land they shared with existing residents

This agreement was shaped by Indigenous treaty making protocols and initially enforced by Indigenous people. The relationship created between the Anishinaabe peoples and the various Lords Selkirk over the years, models one of the most important of those Indigenous protocols, that a treaty is not the end of a deal; it is the beginning of an ongoing mutually beneficial relationship.

JULY 2025

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