Manitoba
National, toll-free 24/7 crisis line for individuals who need support as a result of learning about and from the Inquiry, its reports and related information. Service is available in English, French, Cree, Anishinaabemowin(Ojibway) and Inuktitut.
Phone: 1-844-413-6649.
- After-care supports - Indigenous Services CanadaIn Manitoba, phone: 1-866-818-3505.
After-care supports: "Survivors, family members and those affected by the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls can access mental health counselling and community-based cultural support services." - Health SupportsA list of supports shared on the 2021 National Action Plan,
- Family Information Liaison Units - Indigenous Services CanadaSee listings under "Manitoba".
- Indigenous Cultural Healing and Mental Health SupportsSOURCE: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, updated August 17, 2023.
SUMMARY: A list of resources and services with a focus on those delivered by Indigenous organizations or governments in Winnipeg and Manitoba, or by the provincial of federal government specifically for Indigenous Peoples.
- Hope for Wellness LineCall the toll-free Help Line at 1-855-242-3310, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Online chat available on the website.
- Crisis Lines and Supports Info GuideFind listings of a wide range of crisis lines and supports for all people and ages.
The 20 branches of Winnipeg Public Library are located on Treaty No. 1 territory and the Homeland of the Métis Nation. The drinking water in Library buildings comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation in Treaty No. 3 territory.
- Fact Sheet: Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in ManitobaSOURCE: Native Women's Association of Canada. 2010.
- Missing & Murdered: The Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and GirlsSOURCE: CBC
SUMMARY: Information about 285 women (at August, 2016) from across the country. They focused on cases where authorities have said foul play was not involved. Choose "Explore the data" and use the filter boxes to select Manitoba.
Community organizing in Manitoba
- Missing Persons & Persons at Risk ToolkitProvided by Ka Ni Kanichihk organization in Winnipeg and families of missing & murdered women. The kit contains downloadable instructions and templates to help families in organizing their responses and efforts to find a loved one who has gone missing.
- Drag the RedSUMMARY: grassroots group founded in 2014 by Bernadette Smith, organizes annual searches of the Red River and adjacent areas.
Film: this river
SUMMARY: From the National Film Board "This short documentary offers an Indigenous perspective on the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who has disappeared. Volunteer activist Kyle Kematch and award-winning writer Katherena Vermette have both survived this heartbreak and share their histories with each other and the audience. While their stories are different, they both exemplify the beauty, grace, resilience, and activism born out of the need to do something."
Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba by Publication Date: 1991Borrow a print copy of the AJI. Volume 2 is dedicated to information about the murders of Helen Betty Osborne in 1971 in The Pas, Manitoba and J.J. Harper in Winnipeg, 1988.
November 13 is the anniversary of the murder of Helen Betty Osborne, whose life was taken in The Pas, Manitoba, 1971.
- The Death of Helen Betty OsborneSOURCE: Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba. Volume 2, 1991.
SUMMARY: This volume of the AJI is dedicated to information about the murders of Helen Betty Osborne in 1971 in The Pas, Manitoba and J.J. Harper in Winnipeg, 1988. - Helen Betty Osborne Memorial AwardsSOURCE: National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
- The Helen Betty Osborne Memorial Fund ActSOURCE: Government of Manitoba
- Historic Sites of Manitoba: Guy Hill Indian Residential School / Helen Betty Osborne Memorial Monument (The Pas)SOURCE: Manitoba Historical Society