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In July 2023, Jeff Monague’s poem “In Grief” powerfully captured the sorrow of Indigenous communities mourning MMIWG2S+, using vivid imagery to express the quest for closure and justice.

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.

Missing Nimama portrays the life of Kateri, a girl raised by her grandmother, as she experiences key life milestones observed by her mother’s spirit, in a narrative of love, loss, and acceptance that humanizes a national tragedy.

In the novel “The Break,” a strip of hydro land in Winnipeg’s North End symbolizes the fractured lives of its characters, centering around four generations of a Métis family led by the matriarch Flora, or Kookom in Cree.

Dallas read his poem, which honours and remembers Indigenous women, for Black Coffee Poet.

A poem written for Canada’s 800+ MMIWG

Gregory Scofield’s “Witness, I Am” features “Muskrat Woman,” an epic poem that reinterprets a Cree creation story while addressing the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, alongside personal poems exploring his diverse Métis heritage.