About Our Sisters

Our Sisters, Building Safety, Securing Futures is both a reactive and preventative initiative which remedies the impacts of colonialism, racism, systemic disparity, prejudice, hatred towards women and objectification of Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit. Our Sisters, Building Safety, Securing Futures is reactive in the sense that it has taken an overwhelming amount of time, advocacy efforts, and loss of Indigenous women and two-spirit to ascertain that Indigenous women make up 16% of all female homicide victims, and 11% of missing women, yet only 4.3% of the total population of Canada are Indigenous. These statistics indicate that Indigenous women and girls are "overpoliced and under protected" according to the University of Toronto's Andrea Roman Alfaro. Our Sisters, Building Safety, Securing Futures will reactively redress the alarming phenomena of Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and two-spirit (MMIWG2S), through explicit rather than implicit community goal planning, implementation, facilitation and continuity. Our Sisters, Building Safety, Securing Futures will identify and execute a relevant community network system, to implement preventative and reactionary items to combat Canada's MMIWG2S. Our Sisters, Building Safety, Securing Futures will include the City of Saskatoon as the pilot project city, with the intention of expanding to additional cities across Saskatchewan in the near future. This initiative will be culturally relevant, culturally diverse, multi-organizational and provincially inclusive. Our Sisters, Building Safety, Securing Futures will develop a written digital expression of loss, detailing stories from families of MMIWG2S, highlighting and celebrating the lives of their lost loved ones.