Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

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The National Inquiry on Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: Recommendations from the Symposium on Planning for Change - Towards a National Inquiry and an Effective National Action Plan

Alternate Title
Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: Planning For Change - Towards a National Inquiry and an Effective National Action Plan, January 30-31, 2016
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Feminist Alliance for International Action
Native Women's Association of Canada
Discusses twenty-two recommendations from symposium for the design of a national inquiry into murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in Canada.
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The National Inquiry on Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: What Is It? How Should It Work?

Alternate Title
2016 Paz and Knute Buttedahl Memorial Lecture
Tensions in the Design of a National Inquiry on Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls
[Special Lectures, 2015-2016]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Shelagh Day
Presentation by the Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Canadian Feminist Alliance on International Action regarding what an inquiry would look like and the issue of tensions in the design of a national inquiry. Duration: 1:15:52.
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The National Inquiry's Consolidated Literature Review: Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls

Alternate Title
Consolidated Literature Review: Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Research Team
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Pippa Feinstein
Megan Pearce
Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women]
Includes initial list of 40 documents provided by Federal government as well as an additional 44 collected and summarized by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
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National Survey Estimates of Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native People

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
André B. Rosay
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. 91-102
A review of three surveys that provide information about the prevalence and incidence violence: the National Crime Victimization Survey, the National Violence Against Women Survey, and the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey.
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New Mexico Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives Task Force Report: Report to the Governor and Legislature on the Task Force Findings and Recommendations

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives Task Force
Divided into four sections: overview of legislation which underpins the work of the task force; background and contextual considerations in New Mexico; summary of findings of research including data provided by jurisdictions and case studies of information provided by families; and core findings and policy recommendations.
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NGO Report on Canada's Nineteenth and Twentieth Periodic Report to CERD

Alternate Title
NGO Report on Canada's Nineteenth and Twentieth Periodic Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brenda L. Gunn
Focus on murdered and missing Aboriginal women and children, protection of lands and resources, duty to consult and accommodate, and the impacts of incarceration.
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No Action, No Progress

Alternate Title
No Action, No Progress: FAFIA’s Report on Canada’s Progress in Implementing the 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action
"Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action Report on Canada's Progress in Implementing Priority Recommendations Made by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2008".
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No More Stolen Sisters: Campaign Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amnesty International
Extensive list of learning resources including reports books, films, podcasts, websites and Facebook pages, followed by suggestions for networking and connecting with grassroots activists.
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NWAC Report Card: January 2017-April 2017 (Second)

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Report card presents an update and assessment of the progress made by the National Inquiry Commission to the families of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and to the public. Report card follows letter to the families, communities, stakeholders and commissioners.
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NWAC Report Card: May 2017 - March 2018

Alternate Title
Native Women's Association of Canada Report Card: May 2017-March 2018
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Grades the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on fulfilling its obligations, outlines observations, and makes recommendations.
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NWAC Report Card: September 2016-December 2016

Alternate Title
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: NWAC Report Card
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Update and assessment of the progress made by the National Inquiry Commission to the families of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and to the public.
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"Only the Silence Remains": Aboriginal Women as Victims in the Case of the Lower Eastside (Pickton) Murders, Investigative Flaws, and the Aftermath of Violence in Vancouver

Alternate Title
National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin, a National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Patricia O'Reilly
Thomas Fleming
Analyzes shortcomings of the investigation and police attitudes towards victims and their families. Excerpt from Well-Being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté. Originally presented at the National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011.
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Oregon State Police Report on Missing and Murdered Native American Women: Listening and Understanding Tour House Bill 2625

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Missing and Murdered Native American Women Work Group
Reports results of conversations with tribal partners and communities with respect to the scope of the problem, barriers to use of the current systems, and ways to create partnerships which would increase reporting, identification, and rapid response to cases.
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[Organizational Traps: Groupthink, Rumor and Ego]

Alternate Title
Criminal Investigative Failures
Oppal Commission
Organizational Traps: Groupthink, Rumour and Ego
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kim Rossmo
Comments on the murders committed by Robert Pickton. Excerpt from chapter in the book Criminal Investigative Failures by Kim Rossmo. Exhibit no. 69 from the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.
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Page 5 Chatter

Alternate Title
Page Five Chatter
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Beverly Carter
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 7, October 2010, p. 5

Article presents three different news reports: Inquiry into the investigation of serial killer Willie Pickton, the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan's 2004 election scandal, and the Great Bear Rainforest RAVE project.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.

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Paths of Inquiry

Alternate Title
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Research Team [National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls]
Outlines research clusters comprising the scope of research for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
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Pedagogy of Indifference: State Responses to Violence against Indigenous Girls

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Megan Scribe
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 32, no. 1-2, Violence in Education: Transnational, Global and Local Perspectives, 2017-2018
Focuses of the National Operational Overview on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women (NOOMMIW) to demonstrate how state-produced and supported documents, and narratives around gender and sexual violence against Indigenous girls and women constitute a form of public education which sustains rather than prevents these crimes.
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Prevention Strategies Related to Missing or Murdered Native Americans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Darling
United States Attorney's Bulletin, vol. 69, no. 1, Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons: Law Enforcement and Prevention, January 2021, pp. 159-182
An examination of the strategies from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families to focus on prevention and economic mobility to improve the outcomes for Indigenous women and children. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to page 159.
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Questions Need to be Answered, Says Family Member of Pickton's Last Victim

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stefania Seccia
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 7, October 2010, p. 8

Reflects on the life and personality of Mona Wilson, a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton, and the naming of a corporation after Wilson's First Nation's name, Running Bear.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.

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Race, Space, and Prostitution: The Making of Settler Colonial Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robyn Bourgeois
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 30, no. 3, 2018, pp. 371-397
Argues that prostitution has played a fundamental role in securing the necessary domination over Indigenous peoples and land in the making of the Canadian nation-state. Focuses on four examples: early settlement in British Columbia; the Indian Act; the Pass System; and Vancouver's missing women.
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Rebecca Belmore: Vigil and the Named and the Unnamed, 2002

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Charo Neville
West Coast Line, vol. 41, no. 1, Representations of Murdered and Missing Women, Spring, 2007, pp. 52-57
Looks at a performance artist whose work addresses the issue of missing and murdered women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance; That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jules Arita Koostachin
BC Studies, no. 191, Autumn, 2016, pp. 179-181
Book reviews of: Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women by Amber Dean. That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shenher. Entire section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 179.
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