For the Indigenous, Was This Building a Gesture of Reconciliation? Or an Empty Gift?
Briefly

Near the old perfume counters on the ground floor of the Hudson's Bay department store in Winnipeg, Canada, a trade dripping with symbolism took place.The 39th governor of Hudson's Bay North America's oldest company and one of Canada's most iconic accepted from an Indigenous leader two beaver pelts and two elk hides in exchange for the building, the company's onetime Canadian flagship.
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