Terminology
The ongoing human-rights crisis which encompasses the high and disproportionate rates of racialized and sexualized violence towards Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people
What is missing and murdered Indigenous women?
The number of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people
What is 1200+?
Indigenous peoples experience poverty, homelessness, food insecurity, unemployment, and barriers to education and employment at much higher rates than non-Indigenous people
What is social and economic marginalization?
Shock, numbness, disbelief, anxiety, anger, despair, horror, rage, fear, frustration, confusion, shame, grief, uncertainty, confusion, and negative effects within existing family relationships and dynamics
What is emotional effects?
The creation of public campaigns on the issues Indigenous people experience and challenge the acceptance and normalization of violence.
What is public education and awareness?
The intentional use or threatened use of power or force that is likely to cause harm against someone else, a group, or community
What is violence?
The most common cause of death in Indigenous female murder cases (32%)
What is physical beating?
The institutions and those who worked for them are the source of further physical, sexual, and psychological violence, due to stereotypical views about Indigenous Peoples
What is prejudice and discrimination?
Depression, headaches, loss of appetite, loss of weight, high blood pressure, fatigue, insomnia, nightmares, hyperarousal/hypervigilance, lethargy, muscle tension, chills, increased heart rate, nausea, cramps, fainting, dizziness, respiratory problems, and impaired immune response
What is physical effects?
The funding of Indigenous-centred and community-based health and wellness services that are accessible and culturally appropriate, and meet the health and wellness needs of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people
What is healing services?
The family members, friends, and other loved ones of the victim who are directly impacted by the life-changing trauma, hardship, and loss
What is co-victim?
Number of children affected by the loss of their mother due to her disappearance or murder
What is 440?
The conditions force a disproportionate number of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people into dangerous living situations such as extreme poverty, homelessness, prostitution, and substance abuse
What is social and economic marginalization?
Loss of income and financial burden through professional counselling services, medication, legal counsel services, childcare services, funeral expenses, transportation (to and from court), time off work, search and expenses (gas, posters).
What is financial effects?
The establishment of oversight bodies (such as Indigenous Ombudsperson, Human Rights Tribunal, or civilian police oversight bodies) to represent the interests of families, survivors, and communities by investigating and addressing complaints of maladministration or violation of rights
What is investigative operations?
The disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups
What is genocide?
28% of MMIW cases, the most in Canada, took place in this province
What is British Columbia?
The wounds caused by violent experiences (including those that are colonial) passed on through generations within a family, community or people
What is intergenerational and multigenerational trauma?
Perpetuation of colonialism, development of multigenerational and intergenerational repercussions (i.e., children of missing and murdered women), public outcry, and the spread of awareness.
What is social effects?
The elimination of jurisdictional gaps that result in the denial of services, or improperly regulated and delivered services
What is legal reform?
The cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma experiences
What is historical trauma?
The likeliness of Indigenous women being murdered by serial killers compared to their non-Indigenous women
What is 7 times?
The reason behind perpetrators' actions, law enforcement's failure to catch the perpetrators, and institutions' recognition of the crimes against victims as a result of their personal failings and not larger systems that victimize and fail to protect them
What is prejudice and discrimination?
In one province, $5,191,451 annually (and $70 million total including intangible impacts) for murders and $7,198,300 annually (and $78 million total including intangible impacts) for disappearances
What is economic effects?
The act of amplifying Indigenous voices and experiences, and advocating for Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people's safety, security, and dignity
What is allyship?