Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown EastsideThis report, authored by the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, is the culmination of a participatory process with 113 Indigenous women and 15 non-Indigenous women regarding the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Indigenous women in the Downtown Eastside (DTES)--a neighbourhood known as ground zero for violence against Indigenous women--are not silent victims, statistics or stereotypes. This unprecedented work shares their powerful first-hand realities of violence, residential schools, colonization, land, resource extraction, family trauma, poverty, labour, housing, child welfare, being two-spirit, police, prisons, legal system, opioid crisis, healthcare, and more.