May 5 is Red Dress Day. This National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is a day to remember the thousands of missing and murdered Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit persons in Canada, and to raise awareness about the root causes of this violence.
Indigeneity is a key pillar of RRU’s Academic Strategic Plan, in which we emphasize our focus on deepening our understandings of ontologies and deepening relationships with Indigenous Knowledges. Our plan reflects commitments to work to identify the assumptions that underpin the colonized dominant worldview and examine how these relate to our understanding of Indigenous worldviews, in part by drawing on the Calls for Justice of the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls in our curriculum and learning resources on Indigenous Peoples in Canadian history.
Visit the resources our Indigenous Education colleagues Russ Johnston, Jasmine Feather Dionne and Cherylanne James have so generously shared as we continue our learning together.
Resources
Articles
- Gendering Disposability by Sherene H. Razack Gendering Disposability | Royal Roads University Library (worldcat.org)
- The Fiscal Body of Sovereignty: to ‘make live’ in Indian Country by Shiri Pasternak Royal Roads University Library (worldcat.org)
- Can the Other of Native Studies Speak? By Billy Ray Belcourt Can the Other of Native Studies Speak? | Decolonization (wordpress.com)
Reports
- Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Home Page - Final Report | MMIWG (mmiwg-ffada.ca)
- No More Stolen Sisters by Amnesty International No More Stolen Sisters | Amnesty International Canada
- Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environment Violence: A Partnership of Women’s Earth Alliance and Native Youth Sexual Health Network VLVBReportToolkit2016.pdf (landbodydefense.org)
Videos
- Is it really genocide? In Canada? Is it really genocide? In Canada? | TVO Today
- Dr Audra Simpson, Indigenous Women and Intellectual Traditions in Anthropology. Dr Audra Simpson, Indigenous Women and Intellectual Traditions in Anthropology - YouTube
- Indigenous Women and the Story of Canada | Sarah Robinson | The Walrus Talks. Indigenous Women and the Story of Canada | Sarah Robinson | The Walrus Talks - YouTube
- Helen Knott, Peace River Rising: The link between violence against Indigenous women and violence and violence against the land. CBC News. Peace River Rising: The link between violence against Indigenous women and violence against the land (youtube.com)
- Finding Dawn: National Film Board of Canada. Finding Dawn - NFB
- Tina Fontaine: The Life and Legacy, APTN InFOCUS. Tina Fontaine: The life and the legacy | APTN InFocus (youtube.com)
Podcasts
- All my Relations: Native Women are Funny All My Relations Podcast: Native Women Are Funny on Apple Podcasts
- Aunty Up! Auntie Up! — Makwa Creative
- We are Resilient: An MMIW True Crime Podcast. We Are Resilient: An MMIW True Crime Podcast on Apple Podcasts
Websites
- The Redress Project The REDress Project – Jaime Black (jaimeblackartist.com)
- (Indigenous) Governance is Gay (Indigenous) Governance is Gay - GUTS (gutsmagazine.ca)
- Their Voices will Guide Us: Student and Youth Engagement Guide NIMMIWG-THEIR-VOICES-WILL-GUIDE-US.pdf (mmiwg-ffada.ca)