In the news today, Feb. 19
Three stories in the news for Monday, Feb. 19
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ARCHIVISTS AIM FOR MORE INDIGENOUS SENSITIVITY
Reconciliation is rewriting Canada’s memory banks as archivists across the country work to make their collections more open to, and sensitive towards Indigenous people. Library and Archives Canada is leading the way with a 12-million dollar project to hire Aboriginal archivists to work in First Nations communities and to give more control over materials gathered there to the people who created them. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report urged libraries and archives to rethink their work in light of Indigenous people.