WINNIPEG — Murray Sinclair, who was born when Indigenous people did not yet have the right to vote, grew up to become one of the most decorated and influential people to work in Indigenous justice and advocacy.
A former judge and senator, one of Sinclair's biggest roles was chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools.Sinclair was a father of five and a grandfather.Born in 1951, Sinclair was raised on the former St. Peter's Indian Reserve north of Winnipeg. He was a member of Peguis First Nation.
In it, Sinclair described discrimination he experienced being Anishinaabe in a non-Indigenous school. He also directed the complex Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest into the deaths of 12 children at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre. “Education is the key to reconciliation,” Sinclair said. “Education got us into this mess and education will get us out of it.”
In accepting that honour, Sinclair said he wanted to show the country that working on Indigenous issues requires a national effort.
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