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Organizers preparing for the 5th annual Anishinaabe Days Celebration at Naawi-Oodena on Route 90 in…
Winnipeg, Manitoba — 2026-07-24
Organizers preparing for the 5th annual Anishinaabe Days Celebration at Naawi-Oodena on Route 90 in Winnipeg discovered that teepee poles delivered for the event had been sawed in half by vandals. Replacement poles were found and the event proceeded; a columnist and community leaders characterized the act as a hate crime against Indigenous people and criticized the police response.
EvidenceReported / Pending Review
Information has been received or identified, but assessment is not complete.
- Violence type
- Hate-Motivated Violence
- Motive
- Bias/Hate (alleged)
- Secondary motive
- Unknown/Unclear
- Category
- Hate and identity-based incidents
- Targeted identities
- Indigenous peoples
- Conduct
- Property damage and vandalism
- Targeted community
- Race and ethnicity — Indigenous peoples
- Source type
- News reporting
- Perpetrator
- Unknown vandals
- Target
- Indigenous community / Anishinaabe Days organizers
- Killed
- 0
- Injured
- 0
- Arrested
- 0
- Themes
- Indigenous Affairs
- Source
- Winnipeg Free Press
- Last reviewed
- Not yet reviewed by a person