We’ve compiled this list of resources that can help you challenge racism against First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women and communities on Canada Day.
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Brandi Morin is a Cree/Iroquois/French award-winning journalist and bestselling author from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta. In this episode, she shares from her first-hand experience as a survivor of the MMIWG crisis, and how her experience propelled her into a life of writing. This episode is part of the Signal for Help podcast.
Connie Walker won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for her second season of this podcast series, in which she unearths her family’s history with the residential school system. Read our interview with Connie about her award-winning investigative podcast, Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo.
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Read MoreGuest Fallon Farinacci is Red River Métis and a child survivor, advocate, and speaker for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. Fallon testified in the National Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, sharing her story of loss and trauma. Later, Fallon joined The National Family Advisory Circle, where she worked closely with other affected family members and the Commissioners for the National Inquiry. Fallon continues to share her family’s story and brings awareness to ongoing genocide Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people face in hopes of bringing change across Turtle Island.
Listen NowGuest Kairyn (Kai) Potts (he/him) addresses gendered digital hate, harassment, and violence in Canada. Kia is proudly Nakota Sioux from Treaty 6 Territory, from Paul First Nation, and the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation. He is a proud Two Spirit person and sits as the National Youth Board Representative for the 2 Spirits in Motion Society. As a former Indigenous Youth Suicide Prevention Team representative, he is a passionate advocate who works to improve the lives of Indigenous youth, particularly queer youth and youth in the child and family services system. Kai now makes his home in beautiful Tkaronto where he works as a writer, actor, model, TV host, and continues his advocacy through content creation, frontline workshops, community events. He hosts Snapchat Canada’s first original series Reclaimed and has appeared in the APTN series 7th GEN.
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With the help of a business program that honours Indigenous entrepreneurs’ cultural ways of knowing, being and doing, Vashti Etzel was able to take her wearable art business to the next level.
Read MoreNational Indigenous Peoples Day is a chance to celebrate the accomplishments of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. So many of their stories have been left out of history books. In an effort to honour their accomplishments, Sally Simpson has been compiling a list of Indigenous women’s “firsts” since 2011.
Read MoreRead any memorable books lately? Our staff members have, and they all have one thing in common: powerhouse Indigenous women authors.
Read MoreThe National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country.
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Must-see films by Indigenous women filmmakers that are sure to inspire.
Watch NowTo highlight the four-year mark since the release of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, CBC Manitoba produced this project. The project showcases what actions have been taken to work towards the Calls for Justice. On their website, visitors can listen to family members speak about their experiences as justice seekers for their missing and murdered loved ones.
Access NowWatch this interview with Katherena Vermette, award-winning writer and poet who shares diverse narratives and experiences of Métis women and girls. Her first book, North End Love Songs, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her novel, The Break, was a bestseller in Canada and won multiple awards. Her graphic novel series, A Girl Called Echo, focuses on Echo Desjardins, a 13 year-old Métis girl who travels through time.
Watch NowThis Tireless Reader’s Collective spotlights two acclaimed Indigenous women authors, Michelle Good (Five Little Indians) and Karen McBride (Crow Winter). Michelle Good is of Cree ancestry, a descendent of the Battle River Cree and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation. She has worked with indigenous organizations since she was a teenager and at forty decided to approach that work in a different way obtaining her law degree from UBC at 43. She has practiced law in the public and private sector since then, primarily advocating for Residential School Survivors. Her first novel, Five Little Indians won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize and her poetry has been included in Best Canadian Poetry in Canada 2016 and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in Canada 2017. Karen McBride is Algonquin Anishnaabe from the Timiskaming First Nation in the territory that is now Quebec. Karen She loves to write stories about truth and healing, but mostly about magic and myth. She hopes to continue to explore the themes and lessons taught to her through the oral tradition of her elders and ancestors. Karen’s latest book, Crow Winter, which focuses on Hazel Ellis unravelling a mystery with the help of Nanabush, has received critical acclaim.
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