Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

Looks at how technology can facilitate multiple forms of violence against women, including stalking, human trafficking, and abuse of child images.

A discussion about digital technologies and its impact on Indigenous women in regards to violence and privacy and its connection to promoting colonial ideology.

Focuses on New Mexico.

A report that discusses the mainstream media's coverage and the response by the law enforcement agencies to murdered and missing Indigenous females in American cities.

Data gathered from law enforcement records, state and national databases, media coverage, social media, and community family member accounts. Includes data broken down by state / region.

Explores the Commission's Calls to Justice in terms of the urban context of the Friendship centre movement and their clients' day-to-day needs.

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.

Recommendations: to provide enough counselling and services for trauma recovery; community response teams to deal with victims, families and perpetrators; community led protection for families; specialized resource packages for families and service providers.

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.

Comments on alternatives to choosing to go missing including counseling and crisis intervention.

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

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.

Challenges efficacy of information found in the Missing & Murdered Native American Women Report issued by the Washington State Patrol.

Looks at election-related tweets which carried hashtag #MMIW; content analysis showed that they mostly commonly conveyed hope, anger and disgust. Paper from: SMSociety '16: Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society.

An examination of the root causes for the high levels of violence against Indigenous women and some of the hot spots in the US.

Comments on a mural located in Montreal and painted in memory of women who were killed or disappeared from Vancouver, British Columbia.

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.

Presenter discusses the links between Canadian and Australian reconciliation experiences. Duration: 41:07.

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

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.

Focuses on the crisis situation and the need for action as everyday a girl or woman is murdered, disappears or is sexually assaulted. Duration: 1:15:15.

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.

Details the results of an exploratory investigation conducted by Quebec Native Women organization.

Includes workbooks for developing a national action plan and national public inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls, and lists of reports, recommendations, and resources.

A virtual summit to discuss the need for a mobilization effort by Indigenous communities for judicial reform.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2019.

"This article will provide an overview of the context surrounding the national crisis, as well as outline the bottom-up initiatives which have provoked a political response".

Report aims to provide clear direction to those who are developing the mandate for the inquiry.