Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls

A week dedicated to reminding New Brunswickers of missing and murdered aboriginal women in the province concluded with a run on Saturday. "I was thinking about my grandmother," said Deanna Price of Duncan's First Nation. "Her life was taken way to short, and so I carry her with me and all the young women whose lives were taken tragically and too soon."

Last month, RCMP delivered an update on missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada, a report that led many to put the onus for reform on aboriginal families and communities. "Our 2015 update confirms the unmistakable connection between homicide and family violence," said RCMP deputy-commissioner Janice Armstrong, speaking to the media after the report.

Premier Wade MacLauchlan speaks with some of the people who attended the Sisters in Spirit Vigil in Charlottetown on Tuesday, held to honour the lives of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada. The premier told the crowd the province will be inviting the national inquiry to come to P.E.I.

Catherine Dickson and her daughter Lily, 11, stand outside the Trinity United Church in Summerside before starting their awareness walk for missing and murdered aboriginal women. It's a call for justice. And, it's a call for healing, said Catherine Dickson one of the leaders for the CGIT and explorers pilgrimage walk.

A Winnipeg photographer is using an old-fashioned technique from the 1800s to capture the pain, sorrow and strength of indigenous women today. The photos that line the walls of a Winnipeg shop look as though they could be more than a hundred years old, but small details give away the modern-day subjects.

An advocate for B.C.'s missing women is renewing his calls for Canada's national public inquiry to investigate the mysterious deaths and disappearances of Indigenous boys and men, as well as women. Ernie Crey pushed for the creation of a national inquiry for years, after his sister Dawn's DNA was found on the farm of serial killer Robert Pickton.

With the utmost respect to the loved ones of every murdered, missing Indigenous woman and girl, my hope is that this situation-the inquiry, the further requests for Inuit representation and Sen. Patterson's opinion piece-will bring to light the need to open up communication, so we can come together at the federal, territorial-provincial and community level to create safe spaces for meaningful dialogue around race, racism and racial equity.

By Peggy Revell on October 13, 2016. Maggie Amarualik holds up a photo of her sister Salome, Wednesday at Medicine Hat College, in front of the red dress she feels suits her sister the best.

If the RCMP treats the women in its own ranks the way it apologized for last week, how did it treat the investigation into hundreds of missing and murdered aboriginal women at the centre of the national inquiry? That's one of the questions being asked by the leaders of the First Nations Summit.

In this edition, the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women share how hard it is when a loved one vanishes. Even though the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women has launched, there are no public details on how, when or where the commission will openly proceed.

Nashville's Crystal Shawanda is back on her home turf of Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island this week to film a music video that bears a weighty social commentary. Shawanda is hoping to draw on the work of visual artists who have already explored and focussed on the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW).

Discussing the controversial issue of murdered Indigenous women throughout Canada, Cumberland College held a videoconference on Friday, October 7 in Melfort, broadcasting to Nipawin and Tisdale campuses. The seminar was held in part of the college's participation in 'The REDress Project' by Winnipeg artist Jamie Black. During the session, First Vice-Chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations' Kimberly Jonathan was invited to speak up on the matter.

An acclaimed work by the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada has been adapted to include the story of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The company performed its ballet Ghosts of Violence to an audience of students in Fredericton Wednesday and Thursday, with changes to include First Nations women and images.

Mé​tis visual artist, Christi Belcourt, from Espanola received the Individual Artist Award. She is the creator of Walking With Our Sisters, a commemorative art installation for missing and murdered Indigenous women. Comprised of 1,700 beaded moccasin tops, the installation will travel to 32 locations across North America by 2019.

OTTAWA - The chief commissioner for the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women knows the world is watching her team - and she wants to assure Canadians much is happening behind the scenes even if it doesn't seem like it.

A growing movement is demanding that indigenous boys and men be part of the inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. It took years of pressure and a change in leadership before the federal government launched the inquiry focusing on women specifically.

OTTAWA - The chief commissioner for the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women knows the world is watching her team - and she wants to assure Canadians much is happening behind the scenes, even if it doesn't seem like it.

OTTAWA - The chief commissioner for the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women knows the world is watching her team - and she wants to assure Canadians much is happening behind the scenes even if it doesn't seem like it.

Marjorie Henderson (Morrisseau), originally from the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, was a mother of seven who was well-loved by her children. On July 31, 1993, Marjorie was found in her apartment, dead from blunt force trauma to the head. She was 56 years old. Winnipeg police handled the case.

Thompson Citizen October 7, 2016 09:42 AM Keewatin Tribal Council (KTC) organized a march in honour of missing and murdered aboriginal men and women in Thompson Oct. 4, marching from the KTC offices to the southern bank of the Burntwood River. Family members of the missing and murdered stood in the October cold to share their grief and memories.