Guides: Indigenous Resources: Moose Hide Campaign

Resources

Book Cover: Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance

CBC Video Collection: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

What is the Moose Hide Campaign?

The Moose Hide Campaign is a grassroots movement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who are standing up against violence towards women and children.

The 2024 Moose Hide Campaign educational awareness event is being held on Thursday, May 16 from 10 a.m. to noon in the North Oshawa Library's Fireside Reading Room. The event will include a smudge, hand drum, performance by Kylie Soundy and a jingle dress demonstration for a healing dance. Light refreshments will be provided.

Wearing the moose hide signifies your commitment to honour, respect and protect the women and children in your life and to work together to end violence against women and children.

In addition to distributing moose hide pins, the Campaign hosts both regional and national gatherings which include a day of fasting. People of all ages, backgrounds, and gender identities are welcome to attend Moose Hide Campaign events.

To honour the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people, we invite you to visit the Library in person to create your own faceless doll. The Faceless Dolls project was started by Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) in 2012 as a way to give a voice to the voiceless. Each doll represents an Indigenous woman who has become a ‘faceless’ victim of a heinous crime, and to raise awareness to the epidemic of missing and murdered women and girls in Canada.

Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls

Native Women’s Association of Canada
Founded on the collective goal to enhance, promote, and foster the social, economic, cultural and political well-being of First Nations and Métis women within First Nation, Métis and Canadian societies.
Status of Women in Canada
Status of Women Canada works to advance equality for women by focusing its efforts in three priority areas: increasing women's economic security and prosperity; encouraging women's leadership and democratic participation; and ending gender-based violence.
The Facts about Gender-Based Violence (Canadian Women's Foundation)
Indigenous Women's Circle (Status of Women in Canada)

MMIWG: Reports and other resources

Resources related to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

Official Reports and Publications

Library Research Resources

Black Eyes All of the Time by Brenda Comasky; Anne McGillvray
Publication Date: 1999
The impetus for this book arose out of a 1995 Winnipeg study involving twenty-six Aboriginal women. The compelling accounts these women give of the domestic violence they experienced, first as children and later as wives and mothers, make it all too clear that any plan to implement diversionary reforms must first take into account this under-represented group. For survivors of domestic violence, jail terms for abusers allow time for healing, and the threat of criminal prosecution may quell violent outbreaks. Lax responses from an inconsistent criminal justice system often put Native women at risk. Drawing on the experiences and views of the women affected, Black Eyes All of the Time analyses how this pervasive cycle of violence evolved and suggests possible solutions involving both the dominant Canadian justice system and Aboriginal traditions.
Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance by Amber Dean
Publication Date: 2015
Surviving in the Hour of Darkness by Sophie G. Harding
Publication Date: 2005
Surviving in the Hour of Darkness:The Health and Wellness of Women of Colour and Indigenous Women addresses the health issues - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - of black women, First Nations women, and other women of colour. The book is a collection of scholarly essays, case studies, personal essays, poetry, and prose written by over 45 contributors. It illustrates, through the voices of many women, that gender, religious, cultural, and class background strongly influence how one experiences illness, how and when one is diagnosed, and how one is treated within the healthcare system. The book also focuses on the need for cultural sensitivity and inclusiveness in the delivery of health services. Surviving in the Hour of Darkness :The Health and Wellness of Women of Colour and Indigenous Women aims to promote and generate knowledge with and about minority women while identifying key strategies for promoting their health, thus contributing to a broader understanding of how the experience of being a minority woman affects one's health and well-being.
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 2nd Edition by Joyce A. Green
Publication Date: 2017
The second edition is more confident and less diffident about making the case for Indigenous feminism and in deploying a feminist analysis. The chapters cover issues that are relevant to some of the most important issues facing Indigenous people--violence against women, recovery of Indigenous self-determination, racism, misogyny, and decolonisation. Specifically, new chapters deal with Indigenous resurgence, feminism amongst the Sami and in Aboriginal Australia, neoliberal restructuring in Oaxaca, Canada's settler racism and sexism, and missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canad
Red Women Rising by Carol Muree Martin (Nisga'a - Gitanyow) & Harsha Walia
Publication Date: 2019