Helen Betty Osborne had been hanging out with her friends at a café and she was excited for her future. No one will ever know what Osborne could have achieved because the young Cree woman was murdered, sparking a conversation around violence towards Indigenous women across the country.

On Mother's Day back in May, Brad Firth - a marathon runner from the Gwinch'in First Nation, who goes by the name Caribou Legs - left Vancouver by foot. In full war paint, with no entourage and only a single small knapsack to carry supplies, he set out on a 7,800 km run across Canada to raise awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women.

By Lailani Upham Char-Koosta News "Chorus is one of my favorite classes," said Marita. She wears white paint from eye to temple to represent peace in her school and community. (Lailani Upham photo) POLSON - Among the store-bought fashions worn by Polson High School students the attire that stands out is worn by senior Marita Growing Thunder.

The poems in Witness, I Am serve as testimony for Métis poet Gregory Scofield. Inspired by calls to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians, Scofield's urgent, emotional collection speaks to the injustices experienced by his mother, Dorothy Scofield, and aunty, Georgina Houle Young, who was murdered in 1998. Scofield, who

There's another story to the tragic saga of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) and it's coming to light through an Instagram project created by the National Film Board (NFB). What Brings Us Here -- a project by writer and filmmaker Katherena Vermette and producer Alicia Smith -- profiles volunteers of the Drag the Red and Bear Clan Patrol of Winnipeg.

Brad "Caribou Legs" Firth shared his story in a talking circle at the Qalipu First Nation community room on Wednesday. The event welcoming Firth to the city on his cross-country run to raise awareness about murdered and missing indigenous women was hosted by the band and the Corner Brook Aboriginal Women's Association.

While it wasn't a full house, the audience was engaged at Amnesty International's public forum in Fort St. John on Friday, Nov. 4. The forum acted as a venue to discuss the findings of Amnesty's report Out of Sight, Out Of Mind: Gender, Indigenous Rights, and Energy Development in Northeast B.C., and had five panelists on stage as voices for various aspects of the report.

That is because he is running across the country from Vancouver to Newfoundland to raise awareness about the missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. This run recently brought him to Shelburne County. The number of unsolved cases is high and is a problem.

An aboriginal man who set out on a cross-country journey from British Columbia on Mother's Day has arrived in Newfoundland. He's known as "Caribou Legs" and he's trying to shine a spotlight on the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. NTV's Don Bradshaw reports.

Karen Kejick, holding an eagle feather, and other members of Iskatewizaagegan (Shoal Lake 39) First Nation head out to Highway 17 to raise awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and other forms of violence against women on Monday, Nov. 7.

Many people have seen the kneels that National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers has taken during the national anthem to protest racial oppression and police brutality in the United States. Since Kaepernick's gesture gained widespread attention in late August, teams at various levels in several sports have followed his example.

Standing on Canada's Parliament Hill, meters from the historic Centennial Flame, Canadians witnessed another year of commemoration, representing the many missing and murdered Aboriginal women across Canada. Stories of loss and hope, grief and frustration, filled with song and dance and spoken word, left many standing in a mesmerizing stare; they were moved by powerful words, but remained speechless. The event was one of the annual Sisters in Spirit Vigils to honor lost sisters, wives, daughters, and aunts, among friends, families, activists, and supporters, who have fought in their communities for so long. Families and leaders have lobbied governments for decades, facing the reality of the Canadian government's inaction and omissions relating to the investigation of hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Families and leaders are faced with the dissatisfactory inaction that has persisted too long at the cost of so many. And despite countless setbacks and hardships endured, Aboriginal voices and allies calling for action remain strong.

Historically, violence against women has been an accepted practice across the globe. Violence against women activism emerged as part of women's rights, women's liberation, and womanist movements of the second half of the twentieth century. Collective actions to end violence against women vary in emphasis of accountability, victim support, and empowerment and in levels of advocacy, including individual, relationship, community, societal, and global.

Cogan, Marin. "The Sisterhood." Foreign Policy 219 (2016): 68.

The literature review for this Major Research Project (MRP) documents research on violence against Indigenous women and leads to the following observation: if we look at the historical roots of why these women become targets of violence today, we realize that Indigenous men were also the targets of this very same historical colonial violence. Yet, research has shown that Indigenous males have largely been studied from the perspective of the perpetrators of violence and never as victims (Brownbridge, 2008; Brzozowski et al., 2006; Chenault, 2011; Dylan et al., 2008; Innes, 2015; RCMP, 2014; RCMP, 2015; Statistics Canada, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006; Thibodeau et al., 2013; Weaver, 2009). The question then becomes, why are Indigenous males not being researched as victims of violence, and why do we only view them as perpetrators of violence?

Pro gradu -tutkielma käsittelee Kanadan poliisivoimien, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), vuoden 2014 operationaalista raporttia Kanadan kadonneista ja murhatuista alkuperäiskansojen naisista. Heitä katoaa ja murhataan Kanadassa suhteessa huomattavasti enemmän kuin muita naisia. Aihe on hyvin ajankohtainen sekä kriittinen ja siihen on paikallisten organisaatioiden lisäksi kiinnittänyt huomiota mm. Amnesty International ja Yhdistyneet Kansakunnat.

Duncan, Catriona (2016) "Yes, and Back Again by Sandy Marie Bonny," The Goose: Vol. 15: Iss. 1, Article 58.

Since the invasion of North America by white male colonizers, Indigenous women and girls have been constructed as homogenized and dehumanized "Indian princesses" and "savage squaws." These constructions, albeit false, have real consequences, resulting in disproportionate rates of male violence against Indigenous women and girls in the context of a contemporary for-profit rape culture. In 2015, the Canadian federal government announced a long-awaited inquiry into violence against Indigenous women and girls. This article recommends an expressly Indigenous feminist framework in order to comprehensively address the issue of male violence against Indigenous women and girls in a national inquiry.

Canada has had a long-standing problem with both societal and institutional racism against Indigenous peoples, especially within the justice system. Numerous national inquiries, commissions, and investigations have all concluded that every level of the justice system has failed Indigenous peoples. More recent inquiries indicate that racism against Indigenous peoples is particularly problematic in police forces in Canada. Yet, despite the evidence, little has been done in Canada to act on the recommendations. This has resulted in the over-incarceration of Indigenous peoples, numerous deaths of Indigenous peoples in police custody, and the national crisis of thousands of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. This article seeks to highlight the lesser-known problem of police-involved racialized and sexualized abuse and violence against Indigenous women and girls as a root cause of the large numbers of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada. It is argued that an in-depth look at police-involved disappearances, sexual assaults, and murders of Indigenous women should be included in a national inquiry into the high rates of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. It is hoped that such an investigation under the national inquiry will result in evidence-based analysis and recommendations for legislative and policy-based changes that are consistent with the human rights protections afforded Indigenous women and girls and with the calls for action by Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, various United Nations human rights bodies, and the families, communities, and nations of the Indigenous victims.

This article explores the complex relationship between processes of making, memory, healing, and social activism activated by Walking With Our Sisters, a large-scale commemorative installation intended to foster awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Stephanie G. AndersonStephanie G.