(Re)Presenting Indigenous women: a critical analysis of two reports on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada

Abstract

Indigenous women and girls in Canada live in a society which poses a risk to their safety because they are women and Aboriginal. The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) has been gaining notoriety as a topic of interest in Canadian society in the twenty-first century. Using a discourse analysis, this project examines two reports written from a national perspective on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and asks two primary questions: Do these reports provide readers with an accurate (re)presentation of Aboriginal women and girls in Canada? And does the report in question challenge racial stereotypes or reproduce violence against Indigenous women and girls?