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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: forever loved / D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jennifer Brant -- I. Violence against Indigenous women and girls: a sociological phenomenon -- Stolen sisters: the politics, policies, and travesty of missing and murdered women in Canada / Wendee Kubik and Carrie Bourassa -- Understanding violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada / Jessica Riel-Johns -- "Only the silence remains": Aboriginal women as victims in the case of the Lower Eastside (Pickton) murders, investigative flaws, and the aftermath of violence in Vancouver / Patricia O'Reilly and Thomas Fleming -- Sisters in spirit / Anita Olsen Harper -- II. The ongoing erasure of Indigenous women -- The unmournable body of Cindy Gladue: on corporeal integrity and grievability / Caroline Fidan Tyler Doenmez -- Analyzing erasures and resistance involving Indigenous women in New Brunswick, Canada / Josephine L. Savarese -- The duty of the Canadian media in relation to the violence against Native women: lessons drawn from the case of Ciudad Juárez / Isela Pérez-Torres -- III. Education, awareness, and action -- Transnational advocacy for the missing and murdered Indigenous women / Rosemary Nagy -- How the lens of the global locates Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women: pedagogical methods, lessons, and hope from the classroom / Brenda Anderson -- Honouring "our sisters in spirit": an interview with film director Nick Printup / Jennifer Brant and Nick Printup -- IV. Taking a stance: resistance and sisterhood -- Sisterhood on the frontlines: the truth as we hear it from Indigenous women / Summer Rain Bentham, Hilla Kerner, and Lisa Steacy, Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter -- Visualizing grassroots justice: missing and murdered Indigenous women / Vicki Chartrand, Myrna Abraham, Leah Maureen Gazan, Cheryl James, Brenda Osborne, and Chickadee Richard -- Personal political pedagogy with respect to #MMIW / Maxine Matilpi -- V. Voices of healing: narrative and poetry -- Little sister / Tasha Spillet -- She, remembers, warrior / Tasha Spillet -- What I learned from walking with our sisters / Gillian McKee -- To my sister I have never met / Sherry Emmerson -- If one more / Sǎkihitowin Awǎsis -- Take back the night / Sǎkihitowin Awǎsis -- Accomplice / Alyssa M. General -- Moving forward: a dialogue between D. Memee Lavell-Harvard, Gladys Radek, and Bernice Williams / D. Memee Lavell-Harvard, Gladys Radek, and Bernice Williams.