Taken in Cree

Tina Fontaine was a 15-year-old girl whose body was pulled from the Red River in Winnipeg in August 2014, sparking international attention and shining a spotlight on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Women have been assaulted, gone missing and been murdered along British Columbia's Highway 16 for decades. Alberta Williams and Ramona Wilson were two young women whose proximity to the Highway of Tears made them vulnerable to violence.

Like many other women, Danielle LaRue and Ashley Machiskinic were victims of downtown Vancouver's East Side. Their deaths sparked calls for justice and safety for women in this community.

Marie Jeanne Kreiser's family was looking forward to seeing her on Thanksgiving, 1987, in Slave Lake. She never arrived. Though her family knows Marie Jeanne's case may never be solved, they want the world to know who she truly was.

Emily Osmond was 78-years-old when she was last seen by her nephew at her home on the outskirts of Kawacatoose First Nation, Sask., in 2007. Emily's dogs were abandoned and she told no one she was leaving. This peaceful woman vanished without a trace.

In 2009, 17-year-old Cherisse Houle's body was found near Sturgeon Creek in rural Manitoba. Cherisse was a vulnerable teenager whose life was plagued by recurring drug use and sexual exploitation. Tragically, she was trying to better her life before she died.