Understanding the Manitoba Friendship Centre Foundation: Listening to the Visionaries

This Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (UAKN) funded project aims to direct a strategic vision for Friendship Centres in Manitoba in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The objectives are to collect oral history stories from visionaries and founders at two Manitoba based Friendships Centres, document the stories in digital video format to share with the Friendship Centres’ communities, as well as train community members in research skills, such as interviewing, data collection, Indigenous digital storytelling methodologies, and knowledge mobilization methods. The project will increase the accessibility of research knowledge among academic and non-academic audiences, and support the building of reciprocal relationships between those two groups.