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Aboriginal chiefs in Manitoba are angry that a Winnipeg museum has scratched the word “genocide” from an exhibition about Canada’s treatment of aboriginal.

The digital sign — meant to attract visitors to an exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights when it opens in 2014 — was at one point slated to label human rights violations against First Nations as genocide but the museum’s steering committee changed its mind after deciding “we’re not in the position to make declarations of genocide,” a spokeswoman said.

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Upon learning of the change, the Southern Chiefs Organization lashed out at the museum’s CEO in a letter Friday, claiming the move “is a clear demonstration of the insincerity and populist agenda of the federal government.”

It accused the museum of “sanitizing the true history of Canada’s shameful treatment of First Nations.”

According to the letter, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs pledged $1-million in donations to the museum “with the understanding that history of the treatment of First Nations people would be on exhibit.”