Ontario Native Women's Association

Published purpose

This 19-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include a series of commemorative art exhibits, hosted in four different cities throughout Ontario: Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Kenora, and Sioux Lookout; the collaborative Indigenous arts-based approaches used in this series will be self-determined by the families in each region, to honor their loved one in collaboration with ONWA, while encouraging public education and awareness of the loss and grief that continues to endure.