Podcasts, film, television & art
Podcasts
- Missing and Murdered - CBC, hosted by Connie WalkerSeason One: Who Killed Alberta Williams? 8 episodes
Season Two: Finding Cleo. 10 episodes - Taken: The Podcast - Eagle Vision, hosted by Lisa MeechesEpisodes available in Cree and English.
Documentary | this river
Running time: 19 min.
Directors: Erika McPherson and Katherena Vermette for National Film Board of Canada
"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."
Documentary | Finding Dawn
Running time: 1 hour 13 min.
Director: Christine Welsh
"Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh brings us a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy – the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The film takes a journey into the heart of Indigenous women's experience, from Vancouver's skid row, down the Highway of Tears in northern BC, and on to Saskatoon, where the murders and disappearances of these women remain unsolved."
Television | Taken: The Series
- Taken: The Series - official website with episodes list."Riveting, spine-chilling, important television, Taken confronts, head-on, the clues that link the stories of these missing and murdered women and the hope of all Canadians to resolve this tragic reality for Indigenous women, and for our nation."
Television series: APTN, CBC. 4 seasons. 42 episodes.
Host: Lisa Meeches.
Artistic Expressions
- Gallery of Artistic Expressions
SOURCE: National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
SUMMARY: "The National Inquiry is honoured to share some of the hundreds of artistic expressions gifted throughout the Truth Gathering Process. All artists retain copyright."
- Walking With Our Sisters - initiated by artist Christi BelcourtNOTE: Walking With Our Sisters held its closing ceremonies August 15-18, 2019 at Batoche, Saskatchewan.
SUMMARY: "Walking With Our Sisters is a commemorative art installation to honour the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the United States; to acknowledge the grief and torment families of these women continue to suffer; and to raise awareness of this issue and create opportunity for broad community-based dialogue on the issue."
"In June of 2012, a general call was issued on issued on Facebook for people to create moccasin tops. The call was answered by women, men and children of all ages and races. By July 25, 2013, over 1,600 vamps had been received, almost tripling the initial goal of 600...". - Walking With Our Sisters - Winnipeg installation 2014WWOS was installed at the Urban Shaman Gallery in Winnipeg on March 21, 2014. Learn about the Winnipeg installation and activities.
SOURCE: Muskrat Magazine
- The REDress Project - initiated by artist Jamie BlackSUMMARY: "The REDress Project focuses around the issue of missing or murdered Aboriginal women across Canada. It is an installation art project based on an aesthetic response to this critical national issue. The project has been installed in public spaces throughout Canada and the United States as a visual reminder of the staggering number of women who are no longer with us. Through the installation I hope to draw attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence."