MMIW

Before teaching about MMIWG, it's essential that you’ve taken the time to understand the report, the significance of the day, and its deeper meaning. Please ensure you’ve done this important learning before bringing the conversation into the classroom. 

Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

From the Office of the Treaty Commission

This is a lesson plan for an art installation

NSI IndigiDocs "When the Children Left" 

To honour the memory of her sister and her untimely passing in 1989, Angeline McLeod highlights the barriers her community faces around education. The film delivers a scathing indictment on systemic and urgent issues brought on by these social injustices through the use of home videos and childhood memories.

LESSON PLAN: Indigenous Women’s Activism 

*Trigger Warning* This lesson plan contains highly sensitive materials related to racism, gender-based violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. This lesson may cause students discomfort, unease, or possibly “trigger” a recurrence of trauma.

This lesson was originally designed for Ontario Grade 10 History, but could be used in ELA 10, ELA 20 or ELA 30.

Lesson Plan: Their Voices Will Guide Us- Student and Youth Engagement Guide

Their Voices Will Guide Us is an education initiative of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Our intent is to facilitate critical thinking, purposeful reflection, and dialogue around the perceptions and lived realities of Indigenous women and girls.

This initiative is designed to engage students and teachers in meaningful learning about the important roles of Indigenous women and girls in their families, communities, and nations, highlighting their strength, agency, and traditional responsibilities as Indigenous women and girls as well as to engage students and teachers in examining the impact of the high levels of violence that Indigenous women and girls experience.

Lessons for K-4,  5-8, 9-12

The Issues of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada Teaching Unit

This is unit was designed for Comox Valley School (British Columbia) by Ken Lees & Gordon McMahon. 

Lessons for ELA 10, Wellness 10, ELA 20, ELA 30, Law 30

Women’s Memorial March in Honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

This lesson was designed by Mareike Michele 

The purpose of this lesson is to draw attention to the portrayal of missing and murdered indigenous women in popular media. Due to the subject matter, the suggested grade level is upper high school (grade 10-11) 

 Creating a Social Action Art Piece in Response to the National Inquiry of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

This lesson was designed by  Jadyn Fischer-McNab

Students will learn about murdered and missing Indigenous females through the lens of social action art pieces. Students will begin by having “Missing Nimama” read to them and discussing the different voices represented in the book. They will then dive into a study of learning more about this topic and the organizations trying to bring awareness through traveling art installations. The students will complete a final project or create their own social action art or media piece using any medium to represent what they have learned or bring awareness to a topic they are passionate about.  

Lessons for Grade 9 - 12