Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls

The families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls say they are anxiously awaiting more details about the programs and services they were promised to help them navigate the justice system.

Sacred Roots Productions is a Native production company owned by Akwesasne Mohawk women, Shelby Mitchell-Adams and Jessica Loft-Thompson. In October 2015 they began production on a culturally appropriated adaption of "Pig Girl," a riveting, intense play by Governor General Award Winning Playwright Colleen Murphy, loosely based on serial murderer Robert Picton.

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No one in Chilliwack has been more of a champion for an independent inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women than First Nations leader Ernie Crey. That inquiry into MMIW is becoming reality at the national level. "We lobbied hard to make that happen," he said.

Caribou Legs spoke to NSCC students during a stop in Truro this week. He is running to raise awareness about missing and murdered indigenous women. Also known as Brad Firth, the runner is going across Canada to raise awareness about missing and murdered indigenous women, as well as to honour women.

A globally renowned play is making its first English appearance in Montreal, highlighting the persisting trauma of residential schools on Indigenous communities through the use of stereotypes. Goldie, an Indigenous woman who became a sex worker in Vancouver's downtown eastside after leaving a residential school in the 90's, gets into a john's pickup truck one night and follows him back home.

The Manitoba government needs to step up with support programs and services that were promised to families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, says Bernadette Smith, whose sister has been missing for eight years.

On the evening of October 4, around 500 people gathered at Place Emilie Gamelin for the eleventh memorial march for missing and murdered Indigenous women. The march was organized by the Centre for Gender Advocacy, and aims to honour the missing and murdered women and raise awareness.

It took longer than Barbara Kate Keam's lifetime for her family to finally find out what happened the night she was beaten to death. Keam, 21, of Norway House, Man., was found beaten to death in the remote community on June 7, 1981.

It's a stretch of highway in Northern B.C. that's infamously dubbed the Highway of Tears. In the last four decades there have been 18 documented cases of women who have been murdered, or gone missing, along Highway 16. Ten of those women are indigenous.

Vigils held across the country Tuesday to remember nearly 1200 murdered and missing indigenous woman. They blow in the blustery wind with an eery sense of forgotteness, 24 of them here along Comox Road on the Komoks reserve, red dresses hanging like clothes on a close line, but representing so much more.

In 1994, Alex Cywink learned that his younger sister's body had been found in a park. Today, he and his siblings work not only on behalf of their sister, but for the more than 1,000 other indigenous women who are missing or have been murdered in Canada's recent history.

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The condemnation comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced Canada for treating Indigenous people with indifference and neglect.

Rene. Stacey. Shirley. Sandra. Molly. Pam. Cynthia. Florence. Nora. Crystal. These are just some of the names indigenous women that have gone missing from the Peace Region. They were honoured, along with their families and friends, during the Sisters In Spirit Vigil on Oct. 7.

The second annual Red Shawl Campaign aims to raise awareness about missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada and to provide healing to families. The Mi'kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre at the University of New Brunswick started the event to coincide with the Red Dress Project.

McGill's third annual Consent Week began on Monday, September 29, with a vigil for missing and murdered Indigenous women. The event, organized collaboratively by Consent McGill, First Peoples' House, and Indigenous students, was held on lower field behind the Hochelaga Rock with roughly sixty people in attendance.

More than 100 people participated in the city's fifth annual Sisters in Spirit march in downtown Sudbury this morning, remembering missing and murdered First Nations women. Some estimate 500 Aboriginal women and girls have gone missing over the past 30 to 40 years, while others say it's more like 1,100.

Stephanie English was devastated in June when news of her daughter's death shook her family. The body of 25-year-old Joey English was discovered in a treed area in Calgary, but some of her body parts have still not been found. "My grandchildren are motherless. The justice system is failing us.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to attend a rally organized today on Parliament Hill to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit individuals. Organizers will meet the media at 10 a.m. ET. The vigil on Parliament Hill starts at 11 a.m. The speakers expected at the vigil include: Beverley Jacobs (Mohawk).