Photograph by Ian Patterson. Also in this issue AT THE RIVER'S EDGE, the searchers have found a bone. No, four bones. Two look like chunks of limestone stained tawny with mud, while another is a small circle that resembles a steak scrap given to a dog.

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg police have seized and are processing what the Drag the Red group believe to be human teeth. READ MORE: Drag the Red finds what it believes are human teeth by Red River "We seized what appears to be teeth and I'm not going to comment on whether or not they are human teeth," Constable Jason Michalyshen said at a news conference Tuesday morning.

Behind weeds growing from the riverbank and in the heat of mid-July, Kyle Kematch unwinds rope from a four foot-wide bar to attach to Drag the Red's new boat. He is one of few community members that volunteer their time to drag the Red River for traces of missing and murdered people.

Bernadette Smith and her team of volunteers are dredging Winnipeg's Red River again this year for evidence of missing aboriginal women, but this time they'll be doing it with the help of a forensic anthropologist. Ms. Smith says she hopes a workshop on forensic expertise and training, scheduled for next weekend, will result in a more efficient search effort.

No one pays 58-year-old Lawrence Corbiere to be help in the search for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in the Red River, but he helps anyway. "This is to support, do whatever I can," he said.

Part 1: Lost boy WINNIPEG-Verle Bushie peers over the top of her glasses, the habit of the middle-aged and nearsighted, trying to pull into focus a muddle of gunk retrieved from the silty bottom of the Red River.

A group of volunteers plan to dredge the Red River again this year, hoping to find anything that will bring closure to the families of missing and murdered aboriginal women. Bernadette Smith, whose sister Claudette Osborne went missing seven years ago, spearheaded the search last year after the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine was found in the river wrapped in a bag.

Monday marks the one-year-anniversary of when 15-year-old Tina Fontaine's body was pulled from the Red River. Her death led to the formation of Drag the Red, a group of volunteers who search the river for clues they hope will help investigators solve cases of missing and murdered indigenous women.

In This River, Katherena Vermette trains an intimate and personal lens on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and shows the lengths families will go to bring their loved ones home. In 1991, Vermette's brother went missing from Winnipeg, and six months later his body was found just north of Grand Beach, Man.

Efforts of Winnipeg volunteer group Drag the Red highlighted in This River

A new Instagram project launched by the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada gives a face to community-run Winnipeg search teams the Bear Clan and Drag the Red. Called "What Brings Us Here," the project includes portraits of volunteers, with an answer to the simple question: what brings you here to do this work?

Protesters challenging the sale of costumes depicting stereotypes of First Nations people in Montreal stores ended up stuck with a hefty bill Friday night. According to organizer Jessica Deer, police made the group pay $1,500 or face arrest for mischief for affixing stickers reading "We're not costumes: Say no to cultural appropriation" to the packaging of numerous costumes at one store.

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs will recognize victims of residential schools as well as missing and murdered indigenous women at Tuesday's game against the Edmonton Oilers. A pre-game video will feature Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie's recent live performance of Secret Path and highlighting the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund, which has been created to support reconciliation across Canada.

Brad Firth, face painted and donning a feather in his hair, makes a quick dash to the entrance of the RCMP headquarters in Burnside, taking momentary respite from the harsh October wind to advocate for his cause. Heading to Cape Breton Next.

His name is Brad Firth, but he goes by "Caribou Legs." He's a thousand kilometres away from finishing his cross-Canada run to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and children. His 7,400-kilometre run began on Mother's Day in British Columbia and will wrap up in Newfoundland next month.

Missing Nimâmâ tells the tale of Cree girl named Kateri whose mother has gone missing. The story alternates between Kateri, who wonders what happened to her lost loved one, to her mother, who maintains an invisible presence throughout Kateri's life. The book is one of five finalists of the 2016

On Oct. 17, when The Current was in Prince George, Anna Maria Tremonti was invited to take part in a women's sweat lodge by Lheidli T'enneh elder Marcel Gagnon. Listen to the stories shared as the roaring fire warmed the stones used to heat up the lodge.

Justice Minister Suzanne Anton meets with Minister of State for Rural Economic Development Cariboo Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett at her constituency office in Williams Lake Monday. As B.C.'s liaison to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Attorney General and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton said there's no question that policing done by the RCMP now is very different than it was 20 years ago.

There are many reasons as to why wearing a race as a costume is not a respectful choice. But did you know it might also be perpetuating the sexualizing and dehumanization of indigenous women? The statistics and movement behind #MMIW might have you surprised.

Walking, camping and hitchhiking the entire width of British Columbia isn't exactly a typical activity for seniors care home residents, especially not ones experiencing dementia.

We arrived late. We were doctoral students who took up as our study the "public secret" (Taussig, 1999, pg. 2) behind the contemporary disappearance of Indigenous women from the midst of the Western Canadian cities in which they, and we, were living. Suzanne Vail was there before we were, having arrived in 1987. She is the protagonist of Katherine Govier's novel Between Men, a young historian obsessively studying the 1889 murder of a young Cree woman named Rosalie in Calgary, Alberta. Reading Between Men in 2010, we found ourselves anticipated in form and obsession. That Suzanne Vail is a fiction and we are nonfiction does nothing to quiet this shock; rather, it prompts us to engage (with) her as we think through crises of ontology and epistemology in relation to what haunts contemporary efforts to frame historical remembrance of "settling" the Canadian West as a time of conquest (over land and people) and nation-building, a time of progress and development. In this article, we argue that Suzanne's obsession with Rosalie in Between Men can help us understand just how we, as scholars, are implicated in these contests over history, and explore why this might matter as we struggle toward something that might resemble justice for murdered or missing Indigenous women in the present.