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Art and Exhibitions

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Walking with our Sisters

Walking with our Sisters: A Commemorative Art Installation for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the United States
Walking With Our Sisters is by all accounts a massive commemorative art installation comprised of 1,763+ pairs of moccasin vamps (tops) plus 108 pairs of children’s vamps created and donated by hundreds of caring and concerned individuals to draw attention to this injustice. The large collaborative art piece will be made available to the public through selected galleries and locations. The work exists as a floor installation made up of beaded vamps arranged in a winding path formation on fabric and includes cedar boughs. Viewers remove their shoes to walk on a path of cloth alongside the vamps.

MM interview with Metis artist Christi Belcourt on Walking with our Sisters WWOS

Rebeka Tabobondung interviews Christi Belcourt for MUSKRAT Magazine about the Walking with our Sisters exhibition/memorial hosted by G'zaagin Art Gallery at the Parry Sound Museum. The exhibition ran from January 10 to 26, 2014.

The REDress Project

The REDress Project
The REDress Project focuses around the issue of missing or murdered Aboriginal women across Canada. It is an installation art project based on an aesthetic response to this critical national issue. The project has been installed in public spaces throughout Canada and the United States as a visual reminder of the staggering number of women who are no longer with us. Through the installation I hope to draw attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence.

The REDress Project at the National Museum of the American Indian

To commemorate Women’s History Month, the National Museum of the American Indian presented The REDress Project, an outdoor art installation by artist Jaime Black (Métis). Shown in the United States for the first time, the installation of empty red dresses centers on the issue of missing or murdered indigenous women. Black hopes to draw attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Native women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence.

Jingle Dancers

Tia Wood Special - 2017 Gathering of Nations

A powerful performance of Jingle dancers in red dresses.

A Tribe called Red

Performance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

In October, Canada’s unions staged a unique and powerful performance with music by A Tribe Called Red, video, holograms and dance to honour Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women: A Digital Exhibition,

MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN: A Digital Exhibition (USA)
Our exhibit is meant to shed light on this important issue, as well as showcase the activism, legislation, and art of the movement. We also want to expose and explain important connections between this current movement and larger themes of settler colonialism, gendered violence, and environmental exploitation. We hope our exhibit spurs you to act, either by supporting one of the artists highlighted, calling a representative on behalf of legislation which strengthens tribal sovereignty, or advocating for better databases to account for these cases.
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Galleries include:
Music as Medicine
STOP STEALING OUR SPIRITS
Shedding a Light on MMIW Through Art
Sing Our Rivers Red Activism
Land Sovereignty is Body Sovereignty
Corporations as a Colonizing Force
The Violence Against Women Act
The History and Potential of Savanna’s Act
Not Invisible Act of 2019
Oliphant v. Suquamish Tribe (1978)
The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in MMIW Data Collection
MMIW and Environment Degradation: The Dakotas
Poetry as Activism and Healing
Photography – Patrick
Victims of Terrain: Alaskan Native Women
Riding for the Missing and Murdered
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CMHR

National MMIWG2S+ Awareness Day
Items from the sacred bundle of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people will be shared as part of a special display to mark National MMIWG2S+ Awareness Day. The sacred bundle includes hundreds of artistic expressions created by family members, friends, survivors, artists, and others during the National Inquiry. It was entrusted and welcomed to the care of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in 2021.
No more stolen sisters: honouring MMIWG2S+ in special display (press release)
Items from the sacred bundle of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people will be shared in the Museum’s Level 1 Gallery as part of a special display to mark National Day of Awareness for MMIWG2S+. The sacred bundle includes hundreds of artistic expressions created by family members, friends, survivors, artists and others during the National Inquiry. As part of the National Inquiry’s Legacy Archive, the items were entrusted and welcomed to the care of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in 2021.