Chapter 9 Reassembling the "People’s History": Curating labour activism through Itineraries Christopher Gunter Launched in 2014, Indigenous Walks was founded by social entrepreneur Jaime Morse. Feeling that Canada's capital and centre of political power often excluded the "Indigenous history of the land on which Parliament Hill sits" (Cram, 2020), Morse was motivated to launch a walking tour project that presents the public with the Indigenous history of downtown Ottawa. Given the rise of social justice initiatives, these types of cultural projects are becoming an increasingly popular method of making a marginalized or excluded public's voice heard in Ottawa's cultural landscape. Systematically, many of the institutions commemorating Canada's past and histories were motivated by and built on colonial values (Sartre, 2001). For example, Canada's cultural policy is made on an ambivalent and contradictory link with its colonial past (Paquette, Beauregard, & Gunter, 2015). While the dynamics and strategies of colonialism vary, it is widely acknowledged that many techniques sought to 'civilize' the public to better conform to European norms, values, cultures, etc., which, in turn, were used to hegemonically control the daily lives of the public. Thus far, government-sponsored cultural gratuities or colonial apologies have done little to sanitize, let alone transform, the current hegemonic narratives, structures, and institutions to which the public (primarily the colonized) are predisposed (Bentley, 2018). Thus, like the Indigenous Walks by Morse, it is unsurprising that those publics that feel neglected and ignored have begun to initiate alternative projects that are both independent and representative of their excluded histories and cultures. As an alternative cultural project, walking tours are fascinating for several reasons. From a political perspective, walking tours build community by offering a grassroots alternative to educate the public of past histories and atrocities (Bischoff, 1987), develop a sense of citizenship