Vancouver filmmaker explores inner lives of Indigenous women – Vancouver Courier

Mary Galloway’s short film Spirit Glitch a highlight of Storyhive’s first Indigenous edition

October 9, 2019

Canadian genocide.

Those two words — controversial to some, inarguable to others — were used repeatedly in a government report released earlier this year by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The report described the violence, trauma and systemic neglect faced by Indigenous women and girls over the decades. It made more than 200 recommendations, and noted that while the number of Indigenous women and girls who’ve gone missing is estimated to exceed 4,000, there’s no way to actually know the true number, and it’s probably far higher.

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