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Through the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls (MMIWG2S) and children, we are able to gain perspective on the violence faced by the communities.
Generations of Canadians have gone through life unaware of residential schools, the historical and ongoing effects of the Indian Act, the significance of treaties, or the contributions of Indigenous Peoples to Canada's mosaic.


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Joanne Ghostkeeper
Joanne Ghostkeeper was a generous and kind woman who would give you her last dollar if you needed it, her mom, Mary Willier, said. She...


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Josephine Chakasim
Josephine Chakasim, 17, was from Moosonee, Ont. She went out for the night on April 21, 1977 and never returned home. Her body was found...


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Joyce Hewitt
Joyce Hewitt was 22 when she was seen for the last time in Edmonton, Alberta. Her body was found in Sherwood Park, Alberta on Oct. 19,...


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Juanita Cardinal
Juanita Cardinal, 27, was fatally stabbed in Edmonton on Feb. 26, 2006, by a friend after a night of drinking. Edmonton police declared...


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Judy Quill
Judy Quill’s father described her as “gentle. … She just wasn’t the kind of person who got angry.” On March 22, 2009, Quill was found...


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Justine Cochrane
Justine Cochrane was a 15-year-old girl from the Sunchild First Nation, a Cree community in Alberta, who enjoyed crafts, powwows and...


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Joey English
Joey Tiiah Patricia English, 25, was a mother of three and a member of the Piikani Nation, a community in the Blackfoot Confederacy of...


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Inusiq Sarah Akavak
Inusiq was from Iqaluit, Nunavut. She was strangled to death at the age of 39 in her apartment by her common-law husband, Kootoo...


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Heaven Traverse
Heaven Traverse was just 18 months old when she died at a Winnipeg hospital on Jan. 14, 2005. The toddler was in foster care at a home on...


Sep 9, 2022
Story of Helen Betty Osborne
Helen Osborne was born in Norway House, Manitoba, the eldest of 12 children born to Joe and Justine (née McKay) Osborne. Her ambition was...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Hilda Agawa
Hilda was born in 1946. She was a member of the Batchewana First Nation, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Hilda was murdered by James Dunn a...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Helen Gillings
The body of 19-year-old Helen Gillings was found under a couch in an alley on King Street in Hamilton on Feb. 17, 1995. She was last seen...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Geraldine Beardy
Geraldine Ann Lewis Beardy, 29, was a mother of three from northern Manitoba’s Garden Hill First Nation. Her life ended during a trip to...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Gladys Tolley
Gladys Tolley, 61, was struck and killed by a Sûreté du Québec cruiser while crossing Highway 105 near the entrance to the Kitigan Zibi...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Glenda Morrisseau
Glenda Morrisseau, 19, loved to dress up and go out with friends. But on July 17, 1991 she disappeared in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Gloria Plume
Gloria Kaily Black Plume was a mother to six children, a grandmother and a sister. In March 1999, when she was 49, Gloria was found...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Gloria Mildred Gladue
Gladue, from Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, is remembered by family as “bright and bubbly” and someone “who took pride in...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Gloria Gladue
Gloria Mildred Gladue, 44, was from Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta. She was a mother of seven and grandmother to several...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Frances Ellah
Frances May Ellah (Cook), 59, from Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba, is remembered by her daughter as quiet-natured and pretty. On June...


Sep 8, 2022
Story of Felicia Solomon
Felicia Velvet Solomon, 16, was a Grade 10 student at R.B. Russell Collegiate in Winnipeg, Manitoba, when she disappeared in March 2003....
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