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Based in Oroville, WA, this is an Indigenous-led holistic healing and restoration movement to address MMIWG in the US and Canada through prevention by empowering Indigenous women and communities. Offers a program for women to learn physical, mental, emotional, spiritual empowerment and self-defence tools rooted in traditional knowledge.

This group was created in February of 2015 by three women from Six Nations to educate their communities and collaborate with other missing, murdered Indigenous women, girls, men and boys’ families. Offers one-on-one counselling, residential services for those seeking safety from violence, community education, and other programs/supports such as family court.

This organization spans across most of Canada, and has the goal of assisting Indigenous men who are trying to leave the lifestyle of crime, violence, and addiction. They also provide mentoring, food and clothing, as well as peacekeeping services to events, functions and hostile environments.

AWAN was established in 1995 in response to a pressing need for an Aboriginal women’s group to provide a much needed voice for Aboriginal women’s concerns regarding governance, policy making, women’s rights, employment rights, violence against women, Indian Act membership and status, and many other issues affecting Aboriginal women in contemporary society.