UM Immediately | College of Regulation welcomes Elders-in-Residence, The Honourable Murray Sinclair and Wendy Whitecloud
August 25, 2022 —
The College of Manitoba’s College of Regulation is happy to welcome The Honourable Murray Sinclair and retired legislation teacher Wendy Whitecloud to Robson Corridor as Elders-in-Residence beginning in August 2022.
The Honourable Murray Sinclair
The Hon. Mr. Sinclair will act as an advisory useful resource to college students and the Manitoba Indigenous Regulation College students Affiliation (MILSA), performing as a data keeper specializing in Indigenous tradition and legislation. Concurrently serving as Elder-in-Residence to the College of Regulation, he will even be becoming a member of the Nationwide Centre for Reality and Reconciliation as an honourary patron. There, he can be offering Indigenous legislation steerage and skilled recommendation to the NCTR and its Governance Construction.
Whitecloud will act as a useful resource and mentor, principally to College of Regulation professors and workers.
“The College of Regulation has been dedicated to strolling the trail of Reality and Reconciliation, for a very long time already, however we acknowledge that this journey requires knowledge, session and recommendation,” stated Dr. Richard Jochelson, Dean of Regulation. “The Honourable Mr. Sinclair and Ms. Whitecloud’s assist and data are invaluable and we welcome them each again to Robson Corridor.”
“Together with Elders within the studying course of is a part of the muse of Indigenous pedagogy. Having these two exceptional and revered knowledge-keepers in our midst will fill a much-needed hole within the schooling of all our legislation college students, and can particularly profit our Indigenous legislation college students, each present and future,” stated Marc Kruse, the College of Regulation’s Indigenous Authorized Research Coordinator.
Wendy Whitecloud
A former member of the Canadian Senate who served as chair of the Nationwide Reality and Reconciliation Fee from 2009 to 2015, The Hon. Sinclair lately returned to the apply of legislation at Cochrane Saxburg. He’s Anishinaabe and a member of the Peguis First Nation. After graduating from Robson Corridor in 1979, The Hon. Sinclair pursued an illustrious 40-year profession within the Justice system as a lawyer and decide. All through, he typically returned to Robson Corridor as a visitor speaker and continues to mentor legislation college students and junior legal professionals.
As his record of credentials is exemplary, certainly one of The Hon. Sinclair’s best achievements are being a father, husband to his spouse Katherine and mooshum to his 5 grandchildren.
Wendy Whitecloud, accomplished her legislation diploma at Queen’s College, which final yr introduced her with its Justice Thomas Cromwell Distinguished Public Service Award. She lately retired from an extended and distinguished profession on the College of Regulation, the place she served because the Director of Educational Help program, instructing property, constitutional, and Aboriginal legislation. A previous board member of the Elizabeth Fry Society, she was a member of the Aboriginal Justice Implementation Fee.
