Two public art renderings of Queen Victoria in Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory, were revised by grassroots activism from 2020 to 2023. These insurgent and resurgent temporal public art revisions explored in this article contribute to the crucial present and future discourse regarding the decolonization of public space and, in Canada, the Calls to Action put forth by the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada to redress the harms of the Indian Residential School System in North America. The tearing down of the Statue of Queen Victoria at the Legislative grounds and the amendments made to Mediating the Treaties at ‘This Place’/Air Canada Park are precedents of anti-colonialism in action and proof that urban Indigenous communities can and should expand the art and architectural public discourse to counter settler practices and values of built form.
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