THE FACTS
- Indigenous women and girls are five times more likely to experience violence than any other population in Canada and this violence tends to result in more serious harm.
- Indigenous women make up 16% of all female homicide victims, and 11% of missing women, even though Indigenous people make up 4.3% of the population of Canada.
- The Canadian federal government conducted an investigation into the MMIWG2S crisis (linked below), and made a national report on all the cases. HOWEVER, the number of cases is actually much higher than what is in the report. The 2014 RCMP Operational Overview notes that police recorded 1,017 incidents of Aboriginal female homicides between 1980 and 2012, but there have been many reports that show that the numbers are much higher at around 4,000 missing or murdered indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people in the last 30 years.
CANADIAN SHORTS FILMS ON MMIWG2S
Finding Dawn
Protect our future daughters
The road forward
This river
Get Educated On Missing and Murdered Women and Girls and Two spirit peoples In Canada (MMIWG2S) With These Sources
The Canadian encyclopedia
Drag the red
Highway of Tears
Public inquiry report on MMIWG2S
Assembly of first nations MMIWG2S page
CBC database on MMIWG2S
https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/
BOOKS ON MMIWG2S
“If I Go Missing” by Brianna Jonnie.
Short picture book. Based off of a letter to the canadian government from an indigenous girl living in Winnipeg. He letter was written to address the number of missing indigenous women and girls from her area and to tell them what to do as government officialsif she wnet missing.
“Stolen Sisters” by Emmanuelle Walter
The story of Tina Fontaine and Rinelle Harper (two missing indigenous women) and how serious violence against indigenous women in Canada is.
“Indigenous writes” by Chelsea Vowel
A book for non-indigenous people to educate themselves on issues affecting indigenous peoples across canada.