Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Police Abuse of Indigenous Women in Saskatchewan and Failures to Protect Indigenous Women from Violence
This submission outlines Human Rights Watch’s findings on police interactions with Indigenous women in Saskatchewan based on six weeks of fact-finding carried out from January to July 2016, in addition to interviews and correspondence with police authorities and complaint mechanisms from August 2016 to January 2017.
Violence on the Land Violence on our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence
This report reveals how many Indigenous communities are sites of chemical manufacturing, while others have seen an introduction of man camps to work for the gas and oil industry. The impacts of environmental violence are coupled with sexual violence, murders and disappearances, reproductive illnesses and toxic exposure, and threats to Indigenous lifeways.
Video of Clear Skies – A Family Violence Story
Clear Skies is an engaging new comic and video which tells the story of Marnie and her kids who live with family violence. With the support of her community, and by learning her legal options, Marnie is able to leave an abusive relationship.
Follow Up on the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
This report is the provincial government’s official follow up to the provincial Missing Commision of Inquiry, which made 63 recommendations plus two urgent measures to increase the safety and save lives of vulnerable women and girls in British Columbia.
Unreserved with Rosanna Deerchild
Unreserved is the radio space for Indigenous voices – our cousins, our aunties, our elders, our heroes. Rosanna Deerchild guides us on the path to better understand our shared story. Together, we learn and unlearn, laugh and become gentler in all our relations.
2016 National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Outcomes and Priorities for Action to Prevent and Address Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls
This brief describes the outcomes and priorities for action in preventing and addressing violence against Inuit, Métis, First Nations women and girls in Canada, as envisioned by the second MMIWG National Roundtable which gathered in 2016.
Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada spent six years travelling to all parts of Canada to hear from Indigenous peoples who had been taken from their families as children, forcibly if necessary, and placed for much of their childhoods in residential schools. This volume is a summary of the discussion and findings contained in the Commission’s final multi-volume report.
Indigenous Girls and the Violence of Settler Colonial Policing
In cities and towns across Canada, Indigenous girls are being hunted, harassed, and criminalized by local law enforcement agents and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. These normalized outbreaks of state control are reflective of Indigenous girls’ daily realities embedded within the structure of an ongoing settler colonial social context that has strategically invented the criminal justice system to secure and maintain settler sovereignty.