Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women #MMIW Toolkits and Films

New resources regularly added.

Red House is a multi-platform project in development about the growing epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the US and the relationship some of these cases have to the drilling industry. Check out their TV series and podcast. http://redhouseseries.com/

House Natural Resources Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States hearing on missing and murdered Indigenous women. March 14, 2019. https://www.c-span.org/video/?458789-1/hearing-missing-murdered-indigenous-women and https://youtu.be/GwIqmsCq-fU
US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. “Oversight Hearing on ‘Missing and Murdered: Confronting the Silent Crisis in Indian Country.'” Dec. 12, 2018. https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/oversight-hearing-missing-and-murdered-confronting-silent-crisis-indian-country

Finding Dawn. 2006. New York, NY: Women Make Movies. https://www.nfb.ca/film/finding_dawn/
Highway of Tears. 2016. Matthew Smiley. https://amzn.to/2KTjsNr
The Missing. 2014. https://youtu.be/wSS6mRaMSHA
Missing Indigenous. 2017. http://www.missingindigenous.com/
“National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.” Mountain Lake Journal, May 4, 2018. https://mountainlake.org/national-inquiry-into-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls/
The Search. 2019. Al Jazeera Fault Lines. https://youtu.be/mdPv0NDfMbA
This River. 2016. Katherena Vermette and Erika MacPherson. [short film.] https://www.nfb.ca/film/this_river/
Trawling Winnipeg’s Rivers for the Bodies of Unsolved Murder Cases. Vice, Sept. 10, 2015. https://youtu.be/K8iDzIQW0XE
When They Were Here. 2017. Ivan and Ivy MacDonald. [Note: Not sure if this film has been completed yet.] https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/documentary-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-may-inspire-full/article_5fa877c5-50f2-5311-a093-7b43d7adb227.html
Wind River. 2017. Taylor Sheridan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_(film)

Not Invisible by Red House. “Not Invisible seeks to unravel the mysteries and myths behind cases of missing & murdered Indigenous women that are tied to water protection, land sovereignty, and extractive industries.” http://redhouseseries.com/podcast/
Who Killed Alberta Williams? by Connie Walker and Marnie Luke. “In 1989, 24-year-old Alberta Williams was found dead along the Highway of Tears near Prince Rupert, B.C. Police never caught her killer. Twenty-seven years later, her unsolved murder continues to haunt her family — and the retired cop who says he knows who did it. CBC News has produced an eight-part podcast and slideshow.” https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/podcast

Bearhead, C. “Their voices will guide us: Student and youth engagement guide.” National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. [Canada.] http://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/NIMMIWG-THEIR-VOICES-WILL-GUIDE-US.pdf
NIWRC. “Tribal Community Response When a Woman is Missing: A Toolkit for Action.” Restoration Magazine, February 2017. Pages 18-19. http://www.niwrc.org/files/Restoration-V14.1.pdf

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women #MMIW – Films, Podcasts, and Toolkits