Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: I. All Our Relations -- 1. Voices from the Downtown Eastside / Beatrice Starr -- 2. Honouring Women / Beverly Jacobs -- 3. Sacred Sisters and Sacred Circles -- Story of One Nehiyawak Family and the Power of Spirit / Sandra Lamouche -- 4. Honouring Elsie -- Was She just a Dream? / Sarah Hunt -- II. Violence of History -- 5. Generations of Genocide -- Historical and Sociological Context of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Cirls / Robyn Bourgeois -- 6. Tradition of Violence -- Dehumanization, Stereotyping, and Indigenous Women / Michelle Good -- 7. (Un)Making of Property -- Gender Violence and the Legal Status of Long Island Algonquian Women / Kelsey T. Leonard -- 8. (The Missing Chapter) On Being Missing -- From Indian Problem to Indian Problematic / Maya Ode'Amik Chacaby -- III. Challenges -- 9. Violence and Extraction -- Stories from the Oil Fields / Helen Knott -- 10. Skirting the Issues -- Indigenous Myths, Misses, and Misogyny / Alex Wilson -- 11. Moose in the Room -- Indigenous Men and Violence against Women / Kim Anderson -- 12. Considering Wenonah, Considering Us -- Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy -- 13. Centring Resurgence -- Taking on Colonial Gender Violence in Indigenous Nation Building / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- IV. Action, Always -- 14. Islowewuk E-wichiwitochik -- Saskatchewan Community Actiuism to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls / Rita Bouvier -- 15. Woman Sacred / Pahan Pte San Win -- 16. Leading with Our Hearts -- Anti-Violence Action and Beadwork Circles as Colonial Resistance / Kimberly Robertson.