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Aboriginal Women’s Action Network

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.

Ongoing National Advocacy Community Safety Healing & Ceremony Resources & Toolkits

Crazy Indians Brotherhood

CrazyIndians

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.

Ongoing Community Safety Healing & Ceremony Men

Family Members and Community Heal

Family-Members-and-Community-Heal

A sharing circle that was first spontaneously started by Angel and Rose Fontaine, who wanted to hold a smudge on the anniversary of Jeanenne Fontaine’s murder. At first there were five members from their childhood friendship group that gathered to pray, share food, drum and support each other, and they later had new members join them.

Healing & Ceremony Men

Aug 18, 2018 Winipeg

First Nations Family Support Group

RTSIS

The First Nations Family Support Group was created by Regina Treaty/Status Indian Services when the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls stopped in Saskatoon in 2017. Their activities include beading, sewing, talking circles, and field trips to learn about traditional medicine.

Ongoing Advocacy Community Safety Healing & Ceremony

Ganohkwasra: Love Starts With Us

Ganohkwasra

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.

Ongoing Advocacy Community Safety Healing & Ceremony

Giigewigamig Traditional Healing Centre

Giigewigamig

Giigewigamig is a First Nations place of healing located in Pine Falls, Manitoba, and independently operated by Sagkeeng, Black River and Hollow Water First Nations. Giigewigamig provides wholistic care to community members, and is also a gathering place for loved ones to support their family members as they seek care.

Ongoing Advocacy Community Safety Healing & Ceremony Men

May 15, 2017 Pine Falls

Hiddedoor Studio Tattoos

A native artist from Kenora, ON, tattoos clients on the 14th of each month, donating the day’s earnings to support justice for the missing, beginning with a tribute to Delaine Copenace after consulting her mother.

Ongoing Artwork Healing & Ceremony

Jun 1–30, 2024 Toronto

House of the Moon

HouseOfTheMoon

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.

Ongoing Community Safety Healing & Ceremony

Indian Homemaker’s Association (IHA)

The Indian Homemakers’ Association (IHA) of B.C. was a non-profit organization made up of Indian women that started in 1969 in order to improve the living conditions within First Nations communities, including providing adequate facilities on reserves, facilitating training programs, fighting discrimination, promoting equality and establishing political recognition for women and Indigenous peoples. The IHA was dissolved in the early 2000s.

Advocacy Community Safety Healing & Ceremony Literary Activism Men

1969 – 2000 Chehalis

Medicine Bear Counselling, Support & Elder Services

Medicine Bear Counselling, Support and Elder Services provides trauma and grief counseling in a culturally safe setting for families of missing and murdered women, created at their request and in partnership with government and non-government bodies.

Ongoing Advocacy Community Safety Healing & Ceremony Elders

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