Galt Museum Hosts Special Event Featuring Legacy of Hope Foundation Board President

Lethbridge – The Galt Museum & Archives | Akaisamitohkanao’pa (eternal gathering place) is honoured to host the visit of Adam North Peigan, Board President of the Legacy of Hope Foundation on February 9, 2024. The occasion will feature Apooyak’ii/Dr. Tiffany Prete, guest curator of Stolen Kainai Children: Stories of Survival. Adam's visit coincides with the Escaping Residential Schools: Running for their Lives exhibit, which is on loan from the Legacy of Hope Foundation. The exhibit is raising awareness about the Residential School System.

EventsPeter TahFebruary 8, 2024Galt Museum & Archivesexhibit, Indigenous, Residential Schools, Truth and ReconciliationComment

Powerful New Museum Exhibitions Share Stories from Residential School Survivors

The Galt Museum & Archives | Akaisamitohkanao’pa (eternal gathering place) is pleased to share details of two concurrent temporary exhibitions opening to the public on September 23, 2023. Both feature powerful first-person stories shared by residential school survivors from across the country, but also right here in southern Alberta from Kainai First Nations members.

CuratorialPeter TahSeptember 25, 2023Galt Museum & ArchivesResidential Schools, Indigenous, Exhibits, ExhibitionsComment

Statement on Residential School Gravesites

We at the Galt Museum & Archives, a settler-colonial cultural memory institution, extend our deepest condolences to the families and communities who were forced to endure Indian Residential Schools and had loved ones taken from them.