Winnipeg Free Press
By: Cody Sellar
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Dan Dowan makes an offering of tobacco at the stone base that once held a statue of Queen Victoria on Saturday. Dowan’s grandmother was forced to attend a residential school when she was a child. (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press)
The anger that drove two queen statues to the ground at the Manitoba legislature is understandable but misdirected, two local Indigenous leaders say.
The anger that drove two queen statues to the ground at the Manitoba legislature is understandable but misdirected, two local Indigenous leaders say.
The Queen Victoria statue and a smaller statue of Queen Elizabeth were pulled down by protesters on July 1 at the end of a walk to remember Indigenous children who died at residential schools.