Missing and Murder Women

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Calling upon us to recognize the epidemic of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, Beverley Jacobs reminds us of our collective responsibility to end this violence first by acknowledging the tough truths about colonization, racism and sexism in our communities.

Jacob is the former President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (2004-2009). Jacobs researched, advised and wrote the first draft of the Stolen Sisters…, a sobering report for Amnesty International, released in 2004, that brought international attention to the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada.

She is currently in her last year of an interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Calgary that includes Law, Indigenous Wholistic Health and Indigenous Research Methodologies. Jacobs’s Mohawk name is Gowehgyuseh. It means: “She is visiting.”

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