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Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in British Columbia and Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawyers' Rights Watch
B.C. CEDAW [Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women] Group
Description
Identifies areas of persistent discrimination and highlights Canada's ongoing failure to address rights violations. Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the occasion of its review of Canada’s 19th and 20th reports.
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Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada: Learning from the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
David Eby
Robyn Gervais
Description
Lawyer from the British Columbia Civil Liberties Assoc. and lawyer who represented Aboriginal interests critique the Commission in terms of the structure, lack of consultation and operation, and give reasons why groups most directly affected eventually withdrew from the process. Followed by question and answer period. Duration: 1:21:17.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Matthew Midolo
Footnotes: Undergraduate Feminist Journal, vol. 11, 2018, p. [?]
Description
Investigation into the Canadian government's role in enforcing colonial gender ideology and its impact on Indigenous women.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: Gender, Indigeneity, and Genocide

Alternate Title
MMIWG in Canada: Gender, Indigeneity, and Genocide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Justine Berezintsev
Katherine James
Laurel Rush
Gabrielle Vallières
Description
Looks at how the intersection of marginalized identities led the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Women and Girls to conclude that the this femicide was part of the larger act of genocide.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal: Towards a Meaningful Collaboration

between the SPVM and Indigenous Communities

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dominique Bernier
Doris Farget
Mirja Trilsch
Description
Reports on the results of interviews with Service de police de la ville de Montréal (SPVM) and community workers about the police force's response to the crisis. Includes discussion of the current situation and challenges to collaboration, and recommendations for developing a better a relationship. Summary Report.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: The Role of Grassroots Organizations and Social Media

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kaitlyn Watson
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 33, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Women's Human Rights, 2018/2019, pp. 204-210
Description
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.
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[Missing and Murdered Women]

Alternate Title
ReVision Quest
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Darrell Dennis
Gladys Radek
Warren Goulding
Bruce Hulan
Muriel Stanley Venne
Description
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
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Missing or Murdered Indigenous People: Culturally Based Prevention Strategies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon
Travis W. M. Roberts
Department of Justice Journal of Federal Law and Practice, vol. 69, no. 1, Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons: Law Enforcement and Prevention, January 2021, pp. 47-70
Description
Explores the historical context of the current situation and the ways that public health interventions can improve outcomes by promoting active participation in culture, which is a preventative measure against violence and victimization. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to page 47.
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Missing Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joyce Green
Canadian Dimension, vol. 38, no. 5, September/October 2004, p. 2
Description
Estimated 500 Aboriginal women have gone missing in the past 20 to 30 years.
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Mistahimaskwa -- "Big Bear in chains"

Images » Photographs
Description
Image depicts Mistahimaskwa bound and covered with a blanket while seated in a chair. 4 soldiers/policemen (two holding rifles) stand behind him. A fort wall (Fort Carlton?) is directly behind them.
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Mistress Madeleine

Alternate Title
Daughters of the Country
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Aaron Kim Johnston
Description
Tells the story of a Métis woman who appears to be quite happy and content in her common-law marriage to a Hudson's Bay Company clerk until he deserts her because of her background and company policy. Duration: 57:01
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Mnisose / the Missouri River: A Comparative Literary Analysis of River Stories from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the #NoDAPL Movement

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Hernandez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 72-95
Description
Examines multiple narratives—historical and contemporary—relating to the river and discusses how those narratives in combination with the privileging of text-based have been used alternately to empower and disempower Indigenous communities and nations.
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Mobilising across Colour Lines: Intimate Encounters between Aboriginal Women and African American and Other Allied Servicemen on the World War II Australian Home Front

Alternate Title
Mobilising Across Color Lines:
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Hughes
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 47-70
Description
Article examines oral histories and archival content to reveal the lived experiences of Aboriginal women in Australia who formed relationships with the allied service men stationed there during WWII. Discusses how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and African American, Native American and other servicemen of colour were often drawn together in the face of shared experiences of colonial discrimination and oppression.
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Module IV: North (Inward Reflections) — Focusing on the Non Discrimination Touchstone

Alternate Title
Touchstones for Leadership: Reconciliation in Indigenous Child Welfare
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margaret Kovach
Description
General course overview of the curriculum intended to bring participants through the four phases of reconciliation based upon the Touchstones of Hope principles. This module explores the process and goals for reconciliation against racial discrimination as they apply to child welfare. Materials presented as exhibit 47 from Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry.
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The Moral Limits of the Law: Settler Colonialism and the Anti-Violence Movement

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, Karangatia: Calling Out Gender and Sexuality in Settler Societies, 2012, pp. 69-88
Description
Article explores the intersection of Indigeneity and colonial violence focusing on the issues that arise from attempting anti-violence work from within colonial frameworks of law and justice.
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More on the Return of the Native

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Asch
Colin Samson
Current Anthropology, vol. 47, no. 1, February 2006, pp. 145-149
Description
Comments on the debate initiated by Adam Kuper's article The Return of the Native and includes the authors' reply.
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More Trouble for the Heuny

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nok Khamin
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indochina, October/November/December 2000, pp. 22-29
Description
Discusses Laotian government policies towards indigenous groups and the impact of hydroelectric dam construction. To access this article scroll down to page 22.
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Moving Towards Saimaqatigiingniq

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bethany Scott
Julie Harris
David Joanasie
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, no. 2, Literacy & Democracy, December 2013, pp. 69-76
Description
Examines how government actions into the 1970s, including the killing of sled dogs, negatively affected Inuit people. Also discusses the progress made from the Qikiqtani Truth Commission’s recommendations.
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Mrs. Mary Jacobson Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Mary (Mrs.) Jacobson
Carol Pearlstone
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with Mary Jacobson, the daughter of a Hudson's Bay manager. She talks about job discrimination against Indian and Metis, how welfare payments have destroyed the old way of life and tells a story of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 that her mother told her.
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The Murder of Melaityappa and How Judge Mann Succeeded in Making ‘the administration of justice palatable’ to South Australian Colonists in 1849

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Skye Krichauf
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, no. 1, December 2017, pp. 23-45
Description
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.
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