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Missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada: a new population affinity assessment technique to aid in identification using 3D technology [PDF]

open access: yesForensic Sciences Research, 2022
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.
Elisabeth Cuerrier-Richer
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The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls National Inquiry: Meta-genre, Genre Hybridity, and Social Change

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2021
In this paper we present a rhetorical genre analysis of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) National Inquiry. We focus on the concepts of meta-genre and genre hybridity in the context of social change to explore the dynamics of ...
Diana L. Wegner, Stephanie Lawless
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Unveiling the Veiled Narratives

open access: yesCanadian Journal for the Academic Mind, 2023
Critical Indigenous scholars have extensively examined the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/Girls (MMIWG) along the Highway of Tears (HoT) in British Columbia and have linked the phenomena to varying underlying colonial structures.[i ...
Elliot Goodell Ugalde
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“Reconciliation” in undergraduate education in Canada: the application of Indigenous knowledge in conservation

open access: yesFACETS, 2021
Both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) explicitly emphasized the role of educators in “reconciliation.” Alongside this, conservation practitioners are ...
Danika Billie Littlechild   +2 more
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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

open access: yesWitness, 2020
The year 2020 marks five years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada released its Calls to Action, directing nursing to take action on both “truth” and “reconciliation.” The aim of this article is to examine how nurses have ...
Paisly Michele Symenuk   +3 more
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Canada 's Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and the Imperative for a More Inclusive Perspective

open access: yesInternational Indigenous Policy Journal, 2019
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) emerged to bring attention to the overrepresentation of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. It has raised awareness about systemic racism and sexism as well as
John G. Hansen, Emeka E. Dim
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Analyzing the NIMMIWG’s 231 Calls for Justice through a food studies lens

open access: yesCanadian Food Studies
In 2019, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) released a report containing 231 Calls to Justice to address the disproportionate level of violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in ...
Tabitha Robin   +3 more
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Empathy for missing and murdered Indigenous women

open access: yesHybrid
In Alaska, Native women are victims of violence at far higher rates than women of other ethnicities. This phenomenon, known as #MMIWG (for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls), affects North America as a whole, but Alaska seems particularly ...
Lucie Bonnet
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Quelle empathie pour les femmes autochtones disparues ou tuées ?

open access: yesHybrid
En Alaska, les femmes autochtones sont victimes de violence à des taux bien supérieurs à ceux des femmes d’autres ethnies. Ce phénomène, connu sous le nom de #MMIWG (pour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) frappe l’Amérique du Nord dans son
Lucie Bonnet
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How the Canadian Government Continues to Enable Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls

open access: yesCanadian Journal for the Academic Mind
Most Canadians are aware of the injustices Indigenous women and girls have faced and continue to face. However, their lack of understanding of how the Canadian Government, a supposed proud enthusiast of multiculturalism and cohabitation, deliberately ...
Abigail Olmstead
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