Missing

While Indigenous women and girls make up only 5% of Canada’s total female population, they account for 23% of all women and girls murdered in Canada, are targeted for violence more than any other group and are 12 times more likely to go missing or be killed. After numerous governmental inquiries and millions of dollars spent on investigating and studying this issue, there is still no solution or focused initiative to combat this systematic racism and violence against indigenous women and girls. In June 2019, Justin Trudeau stood solemnly in front of this country and correctly declared this crisis a “genocide”. He promised an action plan to be published in June 2020, his government has postponed it, the country is still waiting. The prime minister promised to do whatever it took to dismantle the violence ravaging our women and girls, they are still waiting. Indigenous women and girls continue to disappear and die everyday. On average our government and our society turn our backs on a community that loses an average of 133 women and girls every year, or three a week. This series of prints, “Missing”, is a small attempt to continue to focus some awareness on an issue that our government, and most of our society, continues to ignore.