Inuit Perspectives

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Week 10: Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, Inuit Perspectives I found myself very relieved to finally discuss the murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada, a topic that receives devastatingly little attention in the mainstream media. When thinking about this journal article, I automatically knew that I wanted to contribute to Metis artist Jaime Black’s (2014) REDress project, which was started as a way to build attention to the realities of the missing and murdered women. The topic of missing and murdered Indigenous women is very important to me. While I have not lost anyone in my life personally, the mother of a missing woman (Lisa Marie Young, from Nanaimo) was within my family’s social circle. Lisa went

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