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Initiatives/Resources to Address Sexual Violence
Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC)
You Are Not Alone: A Toolkit for Aboriginal Women Escaping Domestic Violence, Provides Aboriginal women with community safety planning resources to address domestic violence. The toolkit also includes a Who’s Who: Domestic Violence Resource Guide of services available to Aboriginal women in every province and territory.
Our Spirits Are Not For Sale- A Handbook for Helping Sexually Exploited Aboriginal Women and Girls. The primary purpose of this handbook is to provide information on sexual exploitation and sex trafficking to Aboriginal women who think they may be sexually exploited. The secondary purpose is to provide an overview on best practices for front-line workers who work with exploited Aboriginal women.
Moosehide Campaign
Men taking a stand to end violence against Aboriginal women and children
I am a Kind Man Campaign
Men taking a stand to end violence against Aboriginal women and children
Health Canada
Health Canada has created a brochure to help people cope with emotional reactions to residential school memories.
Guide to Mental Health Counselling Services
For more information on both the Non-Insured Health Benefits and Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support programs check out the Guide to Mental Health Counselling Services.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Native Women’s Association of Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Website
Includes nearly 15 years of reports, campaigns, events and art aimed at bringing #MMIW to the fore.
What Can I Do to Help the Families of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls?
NWAC Community Resource Guide
Walking With Our Sisters Project by Christi Belcourt
The REDress Project
An aesthetic response to the more than 1000 missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada” by Jaime Black.
Highway of Tears film
“A documentary looking into the missing and murdered women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia.”
Missing and Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams
8-episode Podcast about Alberta Williams, an Indigenous woman who was murdered in 1989. Her case was never solved.
Supporting Youth
Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN)
An organization “by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.” Projects include: Two-Spirit & Indigenous LGBTQQIA Mentors, Elders & Grandparents Support Circle and Sexy Health Carnival.
All My Intimate Relations: Stories of Indigenous Sexuality
Articles about Indigenous sexuality including moon time, sexuality, puberty, wedding traditions, Two-Spirit identity etc
We Matter Campaign
"We Matter is a national multi-media campaign designed to gather positive messages from people across the country, to offer support for Indigenous youth going through a hard time."
Indigenous Ally Toolkit
The Montreal urban Aboriginal Community Strategy Network has developed a toolkit that breaks down how to be a good ally to Indigenous peoples.
Two Spirit Resources
Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance on Facebook
The Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance strives to “represent the emotional, spiritual, mental and physical well-being and interests of Two Spirits and Indigenous LGBTQ+ individuals and groups in Wabanaki Territory”.
Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance: It Gets Better! video . Click Here
Two Spirits, One Voice video, Egale
Root Causes of Violence Against Aboriginal Women
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
TRC Calls to Action
We Are the Children
Hear Patricia Lewis’ Story of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School
Indian Residential Schools Statement of Apology response in the House of Commons
Beverley Jacobs, former President, Native Women's Association
Journey From the Shadows
Seven stories from seven Mi'kmaq individuals, survivors and descendents of survivors of Canadian Indian Residential Schools. As the stories unfold we realize that our storytellers are speaking for thousands. They are also leading the way to healing for so many who are not yet ready to speak. Traditional healers, along side western practitioners, provide commentary throughout the video.
Podcast of Dr. Sarah Hunt reading a paper entitled ‘Decolonizing the Roots of Rape Culture’
Dr. Hunt (Kwakwaka’wakw Nation) is an Assistant Professor, First Nations & Indigenous Studies/Geography at the University of British Columbia and a Two Spirit scholar.
Displacement and its Impact on Indigenous Women
video featuring activist Harsha Walia
First Peoples, Second Class Treatment
The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada
BEANS
Inspired by true events, BEANS is film about a Mohawk girl on the cusp of adolescence who must grow up fast and become her own kind of warrior during the armed stand-off known as the 1990 Oka Crisis.
Little Bird
Little Bird, is a six-part series about a Sixties Scoop Survivor searching for her birth family.
Module Sources
Aboriginal Multi-Media Association, “Mary Two-Axe Early”
Amnesty International
- Stolen Sisters
- Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: A Summary of Amnesty International’s Concerns and Call to Action
Assembly of First Nations
- A National Action Plan to End Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls
- Assembly of First Nations Submission in Support of the 4th National Aboriginal Women’s Summit
CBC
- “Judge rules in favour of Indigenous survivors of Sixties Scoop”
- 'Betrayed, humiliated' Val-d'Or women speak out after no charges against police accused of abuse”
- “Canada discriminates against children on reserves, tribunal rules”
- “First Nations children still taken from parents”
- “Cape Breton resource centre helps aboriginal women at risk”
- “Eskasoni crisis model could work in other places”
Conversations with Heidi Marshall, Cheryl Maloney, Claudette Commanda and members of the Mi’kmaq Advisory Committee.
The Globe and Mail, “Sandra Lovelace Nicholas fought for aboriginal women's rights”
Government of Canada, The Report on the Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples
Heart Wood Center for Community Youth Development, Youth Engagement on the Topic of Sexualized Violence in Nova Scotia
Sarah Hunt, Decolonizing the Roots of Rape Culture: reflections on consent, sexual violence and university campuses
Indigenous Health Working Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada; Health and Health Care Implications of Systemic Racism on Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Beverly Jacobs and Andrea J. Williams, Speaking My Truth
Isabelle Knockwood, Out of the Depths, 4th Edition
Library and Archives Canada, “Jeannette Vivian Corbiere Lavell”
John McKiggan, “A Tribute to Nora Bernard”
Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat, “Treaty Relationships”
The Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre, Mi’kmawe’l Tan Teli-kina’muemk Teaching About the Mi’kmaq
Mi’kmaq Confederacy of PEI, Creating an Inclusive School Climate for Aboriginal Learners
Mi’kmaw Spirit, “Mi’kmaw Spirituality – Fasting”
Mi’kmawey Debert
National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls
Native Women’s Association of Canada
- “About Us”
- “NWAC Applauds the Long-Awaited Elimination of Sex Discrimination in Indian Act Initiated By Government”
- MMIWG
- What Their Stories Tell Us Research findings from the Sisters In Spirit initiative
- Community Resource Guide What Can I Do to Help the Families of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls?
Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Government of Nova Scotia
- “Aboriginal People in Nova Scotia”
- “Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia Summary as of December 31, 2014”
- “The use of the terms Mi'kmaq and Mi'kmaw”
Ontario Native Literacy Coalition, Teachings of the Seven Sacred/Seven Grandfathers
Paq’tnkek Project Implementation Report
Daniel Paul
Janet Silman, Enough is Enough: Aboriginal Women Speak Out
sipeknekatik.ca, “History of Sipekne’katik”
Statistics Canada, Shannon Brennan; Violent victimization of Aboriginal women in the Canadian provinces (2009)
Status of Women Canada, “Mary Two-Axe Early”
The Thunderbird Partnership Foundation
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Unama'ki College, Cape Breton University
- The Mi’kmaq
- Historical Overview
- Treaties
- Contemporary Mi’kmaq – Kiskukewaq Mi’kmaq
- “Learning from Knowledge Keepers of Mi’kma’ki” - http://player.communitylive.ca/Player/Player/46 (archived recordings of the course)
The Union of Nova Scotia Indians, The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaw, and the Native Council of Nova Scotia; The Mi’kmaw Resource Guide
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner
University of British Columbia (UBC) Indigenous Foundations
Our Eskasoni, “History of Eskasoni”
Where Are the Children, “Timeline”
Wikipedia, “Canada (AG) v Lavell”
Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples, “First Nation Relationship with the Land”