Discusses how complacency towards Indigenous women by Canadian society has disadvantaged them and caused vulnerability.

Discusses how Aboriginal women experience race-, class-, and gender-based violence due to the effects of colonization, and how activism such as the Native Women's Association of Canad's Sisters in Spirit initiative, Christi Belcourt's Walking With Our Sisters art installation piece, and the #MMIW, #AmINext, and #ImNotNext campaigns serve to raise awareness of the issue and counteract portrayals found in the mainstream press.

Database includes links to photographs and stories of 230 women. Can be searched by name, and filtered by year and province.

Host speaks with one of the founders of Walk 4 Justice, author of Just Another Indian, RCMP officer in charge of Project E-Pana, which is investigating disappearances and murders along the "Highway of Tears", and the founder of the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women. Duration: 27:30

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 2013.

Argues that historical stereotypes about women, Aboriginality and sex trade workers continue to place the war on women into the margins of society.

Focuses on the story of Rinelle Harper, a Winnipeg teenager who was attacked and left for dead, and other families affected by the issue. Duration: 13:27.

Reports results of a historical review of case files from 1956 to 2014.

Topics include administrative data, media coverage, and results from listening and truth gathering interviews.

Reports on results of community engagement sessions held to determine the scope of the problem, identify barriers, and create partnerships to increase reporting investigation. These sessions were to include tribal and local law enforcement, federally recognized tribes, and urban Indian organizations. Efficacy of report was challenged in the document MMIWG: We Demand More: A Corrected Research Study of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls in Washington State.

Article includes listing of 100s of missing persons including: the late Amber Tara-Lynn Redman, Daleen Bosse, and the late Melanie Dawn Geddes, Shelley Napope, Calinda Waterhen, Eva Taysup, Mary Jane Serloin, Joyce Lucille Tillotson (missing since 1983) and many others.

Family members, entertainers and organizer of the Walk 4 Justice discuss the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. Duration: 54:35.

Estimated 500 Aboriginal women have gone missing in the past 20 to 30 years.

Videos of forums held to give Commissioner input about changes to improve safety for vulnerable women and the way police deal with missing persons investigations. Also includes the keynote speech Innovative Approaches to Protecting Vulnerable and Marginalized Women.

Relates to the conduct of police investigations from 1997 to 2002. Includes Pickton case.

Contains links to consultation, policy discussion, and background research reports, and general documents relating to the Commission.

Detailed chronology and analysis of police actions in case involving disappearance and murder of numerous women by serial killer Robert Pickton from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Vancouver Police Department report gives chronology of events and analysis of factors of that contributed to failure to recognize that serial killer Robert Pickton was operating in the area.

President of the Native Women's Association of Canada discusses the validity of British Columbia's inquiry, the reasons for the organization's withdrawal from the process, and the need for a national inquiry. Duration: 44:31.

Committee consulted with service providers, stakeholders, justice system personnel, judiciary and clients for the review.

Discusses the government's attempts to enforce compulsory service and Aboriginals' reactions to them. Argues that while the government refused to listen to protests, in the end practical considerations such as geographic isolation and health of potential recruits, and barriers of language and culture caused the policy to fail.

Looks at incarceration rates for Aboriginal men and women, the RCMP report on missing and murdered Indigenous women, and statistics from Canada's Homicide Survey.

Discusses two letters, regarding gangs and relationships, readers have submitted for advice. Article located by scrolling to page 10.

Comments on the case of Lisa Whitford who is raising her infant in a provincial remand centre.

[Aboriginal Economic Policy Research] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2012.

Consists of an interview about mourning rites, including death customs, self multilation as a sign of mourning; punishments for adultery and what happens to pipes and bundles when their owners die; and the loss of old mourning rituals and customs.

Argues that researchers and the media have focused on a tenuous biomedical link while ignoring social issues such poverty and housing. Also argues that this has created a culture of fear which targets Aboriginals.

Ada Ladu was born on the Mistawasis Reserve, worked for wages in the 1930s, married and mother of five. Beatrice Nightraveller, daughter of Josie Cuthand, was born on the Little Pine Reserve, Saskatchewan, worked for wages in the 1930s, also married with five children.They share: a story of a white baby girl abducted and raised by Indians in the Prince Albert, Saskatchewan district; accounts of the Riel Rebellion (1885), especially the aftermath in the North Battleford district; philosophies of child-rearing; loss of portions of Little Pine Reserve and the death of Little Pine.

Documents the experiences of a group of high schools students as they read and responded to The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday.

Examines the reasons an important official written police report went missing in 1881.

Book review of: Murder, Medicine and Motherhood by Emma Cunliffe.

[American Indian Studies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2012.

Uses the prosecution of Henry Valette Jones and Henry Thomas Morris for the murder of an Aboriginal man to illustrate the shortcomings of the colonial legal system in Australian when it came to prosecuting settlers for violence towards Indigenous peoples.

Webinar featuring representative from Native Women's Association of Canada. Duration: 58:03.

Panel discussion Duration: 1:19:19.

Findings from an analysis and compilation of public documents and RCMP lists presents a preliminary aggregate level look at the cases.

Contends that despite an inquiry now in process, governmental response is low to this serious problem facing the Canadian population.

Sociology and Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2018. Looks at four documentaries: Finding Dawn; The Pig Farm; Missing: The Documentary; and Highway of Tears.

Article investigates the media representation and the court’s treatment of Indigenous—specifically Apache--people, accused of murder in Arizona during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Briefing Paper for Thematic Hearing Before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - 147th Period of Sessions, March 12, 2013.

Reviews recommendations made by United Nations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the Legal Strategies Coalition, and Canada's responses to them.

Argues that the term femicide is inadequate since it refers to generic male violence against women, and crimes against Indigenous women are racialized gendered violence rooted in the effects of colonial power relations.

Young woman talks about overcoming her struggles, completing a criminology diploma, and working with sexually exploited Aboriginal children and youth.

Looks at the arrest and detention of Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman, during the 1990 Oka Crisis. Duration: 29:50.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2009.

Author argues that narratives developed in treatment are a product of the imposition of CBT in combination with dynamic group processes and this limits its effectiveness.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor, 2000.