Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are victims of violence against Indigenous women in Canada and the United States, of those in the First Nations in Canada and Native American communitie
Art installation inspired by the REDress Project (Seaforth Peace Park, Vancouver, Canada, National Day for Vigils for MMIW, October 2016)
Sign displayed at a protest held on March 4, 2014, on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario
Activists for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) at the 2018 Women's March in San Francisco
City Council member Juarez supporting MMIWG, in Seattle, Washington, 2019
Throughout the history of Canada, the Canadian government, its colonial predecessors, and European settlers perpetrated systematic violence against Indigenous peoples that increasingly has been descri
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
…assaults reported involve non-Indigenous perpetrators, while 70% of assaults go unreported. MMIWG has been described as a Canadian national crisis, and a Canadian genocide. In response to repeated calls from Indigenous groups, activists, and non-governmental organizations, the Government of Canada, under Prime Minister…
They Came for the Children a publication by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Beothuk tribe of Newfoundland is extinct as a cultural group. It is represented in museum, historical and archaeological records.
The Brother Jonathan docked at Victoria's Esquimalt Harbour on 12 March 1862, carrying smallpox infected passengers from San Francisco.
Study period at a Roman Catholic Indian Residential School in Fort Resolution, NWT