66: The Real Wind River

This week we actually put our graduate degrees in film to use while we discuss the amazing film Wind River. The 2017 film is a fictional story inspired by thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and two spirit people. In honour of May 5th's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, we give an overview the horrifying statistics affecting these communities as well as some specific cases. As always you can learn more from the links below, and be on the look out for us to cover some of these cases in greater depth in future episodes. FURTHER READING: https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/ (National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - Final Report (Canada)) https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/ (National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada)) https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mmiw-4000-hajdu-1.3450237 (Confusion reigns over number of missing, murdered indigenous women) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/world/americas/canada-indigenous-women-highway-16.html (Dozens of Women Vanish on Canada’s Highway of Tears, and Most Cases Are Unsolved) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears (Highway of Tears) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton (Robert Pickton (wiki)) https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2013/03/06/sexual-violence-scars-native-american-women/ (Sexual violence scars Native American women) https://www.nativewomenswilderness.org/mmiw (Native Women’s Wilderness) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/12/02/2019-26178/establishing-the-task-force-on-missing-and-murdered-american-indians-and-alaska-natives (Establishing the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives (Federal Register)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_and_murdered_Indigenous_women (MMIW (wiki)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_(film) (Wind River) https://gamerant.com/avengers-stars-wind-river-elizabeth-olsen/ (Wind River Spoiler Free Review (Game Rant)  ) https://www.theguardian.com/fi