Reconciliation Studies Learning Tour Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory,
Spring 2025

From May 22 to June 1, 2025, St. Stephen’s University offers a ten-day Learning Tour to Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory (and surrounding areas), where participants will learn about local reconciliation efforts between settler and Indigenous peoples. We will meet with elders and knowledge-keepers as well as Indigenous and settler activists, academics, artists and others who are directly involved in community-based work to foster cultural revitalization, social justice and right relations between Indigenous and settler peoples.

More info on: https://www.ssu.ca/rs-learning-tour

Why Winnipeg?

Located on the original lands of the Anishinaabe, Ininiwak, Anishininew, Dakota and Dene peoples and on the homeland of the Red River Métis, the city of Winnipeg has an extraordinary and ongoing history as a centre of colonization and Indigenous resistance and revitalization in Turtle Island/North America. As the home of the largest urban Indigenous community in the country, Winnipeg harbours insights that reveal the deep challenges as well as the remarkable efforts to create a better future for coming generations. While the majority of our time will be spent in Winnipeg itself, the tour will also include a retreat at an Indigenous-led spiritual centre outside of the city.

Quick Facts

• The Learning Tour can be taken for academic credit, or for personal learning and enrichment (audited).
• When taken for academic credit, the Learning Tour forms one component of SSU’s Reconciliation Studies Certificate, which in turn can be taken on its own or integrated into a master’s degree at SSU. More information about the certificate can be found on SSU’s website: https://www.ssu.ca/certificate-in-reconciliation-studies.
• Costs: $1150 for students and $1500 for auditing participants. Students additionally pay tuition ($2370) and a once-per-semester student fee of $200 (regardless of the number of courses taken).

Financial Aid

We are here to make your education as affordable as possible, and welcome a conversation with our prospective students to help us come up with a financial arrangement that works for everyone! More information on scholarships, bursaries, etc. is available at https://www.ssu.ca/financial-aid. Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply.

Registration

Complete the online registration form by filling in all of the fields on https://www.ssu.ca/rs-learning-tour-registration-form and responding to all questions and clicking the ‘Submit’ button at the end. Once we receive your registration form, a staff member of St. Stephen’s University will be in touch with you to with further instructions and information.

Contact

We are here to answer your questions! For any more information and questions, please contact our main office
(https://www.ssu.ca/contact).