Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) genocide

This poster was presented at the Humanities and Social Sciences Student Virtual Poster Conference (April 9, 2021) with support from the HiPE Committee (Douglas College). For the past 150 years, we have been taught to avert our eyes from Canada’s true history and the treatment of Indigenous, Metis and Inuit communities. Canada is deemed ”our home and native land,” yet the vast majority of this land has been stolen from Indigenous nations. In BC alone, 95% is truly unceded territory that was never legally signed away by Indigenous peoples to the Crown or Canada (Lukacs, 2014). Gradually, histories have ben brought to the forefront of government action through the commencement of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2008) and subsequent Calls to Action (2015)-of which demanded an investigation into the alarming plethora of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. This launched the National Inquiry into MMIWG which was formally released in 2019 and ultimately reported on the ”deliberate race, identity and gender-based genocide” that has been, and continues to be, committed against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA individuals. The following research-whilst not yet concluded-embarked on a journey to discover how the media and various stakeholders covered/represented the issues raised by the Inquiry-and specifically the genocide claim.