Missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada: a new population affinity assessment technique to aid in identification using 3D technology by Elisabeth Cuerrier-Richer

“…As of 2015, 204 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) remained unsolved in Canada, making it a major concern for Canadian Indigenous communities, who are still pressing for the resolution of these cases. …”
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Unveiling the Veiled Narratives by Elliot Goodell Ugalde

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A Pedagogy of Walking With Our Sisters by Laura Janeth McKinley

“…This article examines the pedagogical and ethical implications of a white settler’s encounter with the Walking With Our Sisters commemorative art installation honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women. I argue that the installation offers a pedagogical intervention in official state memory and conventional approaches to teaching difficult knowledge. …”
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The Media’s Representation of Cindy Gladue: An Analysis by Jay Makepeace

“…I use a Critical Discourse Analysis (van Dijk, 2015) framework to link discourses used in international, mainstream Canadian, and Indigenous news sources to the ongoing missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, two spirit plus (MMIWG2S+) crisis faced by Indigenous communities to situate and reassign responsibility for this gender-based violence …”
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In Search of the Truth: Uncovering Nursing’s Involvement in Colonial Harms and Assimilative Policies Five Years Post Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Paisly Michele Symenuk, Dawn Tisdale, Danielle H. Bourque Bearskin, Tessa Munro

“…A narrative review was used to broadly examine nurses’ responses to uncovering nursing’s complicity in five colonial harms: Indian hospitals, Indian Residential Schools, child apprehension, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), and forced sterilization. …”
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Conceptualizing risk for pregnant Indigenous peoples accessing maternity care in Canada: A critical interpretive synthesis by Sarah Durant, Arthi Erika Jeyamohan, Erika Campbell, Karen Lawford

“…We urge health systems and its workforces to adopt the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015) and the Calls for Justice from Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2019) to bring birth back to Indigenous communities through an Indigenous midwifery-led approach.…”
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Ending violence against Indigenous peoples in Canada: a healthcare responsibility by Jessica Kolopenuk

“…As a starting point, this responsibility involves implementing the relevant Calls for Justice outlined in Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.…”
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The looking ahead project: A lesson in community engagement and positive change by Paul E. Pedersen

“… In response to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement across the country, the Greater Sudbury Police Service initiated a community engagement approach to build a project with the goal of reducing violence against Indigenous women and girls. …”
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Human trafficking as a racialized economy and the exploitation of indigenous socio-spatial (im)mobility in North America by Margo Hill, Matthew B. Anderson, Idella King

“…The phrase “missing and murdered indigenous women” (MMIW) refers to the hundreds of deaths and disappearances of Native American women that occur each year. …”
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The Interpersonal Skills of Community-Engaged Scholarship: Insights From Collaborators Working at the University of Saskatchewan’s Community Engagement Office by Andrew R. Hatala, Lisa Erickson, Osemis Isbister-Bear, Stryker Calvez, Kelley Bird-Naytowhow, Tamara Pearl, Omeasoo Wahpasiw, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Pamela Downe

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Indigenous birth support worker (IBSW) program evaluation: a qualitative analysis of program workers and clients’ perspectives by Mamata Pandey, Leanne Smith, Nicole MacZek, Angela Tomkins, JoLee Sasakamoose

“…This requires a commitment to addressing systemic issues and implementing broader calls to action and justice proposed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. …”
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Deeping Our Relationships for Healing: Our Land, Our People, Our Freedom

“…Today, we have a longstanding epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls that is rarely reported on mainstream media or discussed in governmental or academic settings, while Indigenous women and girls go missing or murdered at rates higher than any other demographic. ?…”
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