The link to the news article below highlights more than 250 cases of Canadian women who are assumed to be missing or murdered. Their names, pictures, provinces, descriptions, and other details relevant to their are case are shared when you click on each of their profiles. A table representing the number of women (both over and under the age of 18) that were reported as missing or murdered leading up to 2018 is shared above their profiles.

I chose to share this article because it reminded me of the work produced by Thomas King. In his book called The Truth About Stories, King shares stories about several different individuals. After telling each of these stories, King addresses the reader by saying, "It's yours. Do with it what you will . . . But don't say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story" (60). What King is insinuating through this commentary is that we have a choice about what we choose to do with these stories.

Each of the 250+ women in this article have been given space in Canadian media to have their story and the circumstances around their disappearances illuminated. The data shows that there has been a significant number of Indigneous women who are missing and murdered, but why is this the first time that I am hearing about them? The media is endowed with the power to choose which stories are most important, and the stories of missing and murdered Indigenous women have not been prioritized.

Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

Works Cited:
Carpenter, Patricia. "Missing and Murdered: The Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls." CBC News, n.d., https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/.
King, Thomas. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative. House of Anansi Press, 2003.