MMIWG Inquiry Anniversary
On June 3, 2019, Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
The report goes into detail on the struggle families have with authorities over loved ones that have either been murdered or gone missing – and labels what Indigenous women have experienced since colonization as genocide.
The commissioners released 231 Calls for Justice from provincial, territorial and federal authorities.
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The MMIWG inquiry created to examine the disproportionate level of violence faced by Indigenous women and girls will “investigate the investigations” of police agencies across the country, according to the inquiry’s Chief Commissioner Marion Buller.
The four commissioners overseeing the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are testifying before a House of Commons in Ottawa.
Jorge Barrera APTN National News Officials with the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous…
MMIWG inquiry has “a lot of dysfunction, a lot of disorganization, a lack of leadership.”
At first, Innu mother, grandmother and residential school survivor Lise Jourdain hesitated before sharing her story with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and Girls.
Chief Commissioner Marion Buller said the report is almost completed, well in advance of the Nov. 1 deadline.
The art piece is called “Disposable Red Woman”.
The daughter of Anna Mae Aquash, who was murdered in South Dakota in the 1970’s is welcoming the chance to finally tell her mother’s story before the national inquiry.
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