Southern Quebec Inuit group plans workshop for MMIWG survivors
Three-day session will balance grief and healing support with sealskin work
The Southern Quebec Inuit Association plans to continue its support of the families and survivors of murdered and missing Indigenous women with grief and healing session in Montreal later this month. Here, Sarah Birmingham testifies at the national inquiry into MMIWG hearing in Montreal last March, with elder Martha Greig behind her. (File photo)
A grief and healing session open to families and survivors of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is set to take place later this month in Montreal.
Hosted by the Southern Quebec Inuit Association, the three-day session will balance the grief and healing support with sealskin work, so that it’s not “non-stop emotional discussions,” a notice from the SQIA said.
The session, which will run from May 14 to May 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., can only accept 20 participants, the SQIA said.
Priority will be given to survivors and families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Last March, a national inquiry on the subject held hearings in Montreal.
For more information on the session, for which participants will receive honoraria, email sqiawellness@gmail.com or call 514-545-1885.
on Behalf of my work this can be beneficial for me and wofk
MMIWG, how sad.
My heart goes out to the tragedies of all of this, but I’m concerned about what I consider, selfishness of the living on the blood of the dead. Inuit are really stuck in self defeating syndrome of oppressive existence, and not a sign of recovery in the future at all. Yes, lots of reasons to be angry and sad with what was done. But there’s no reason, not to heal and get better. Inuit owe it to themselves and to their children, as to not allow this enslaved way of living to continue to dominant their life. MMIWG has become another spike in the blame game for Inuit. Another reason, notwithstanding the pain and suffering, but another reason to stay Sick. Inuit need to start understanding that many of the so called healers among Inuit are keeping Inuit in this state of terrible existence. Over and over again you see the same healers rushing to Inuit, many paid to do so, to comfort the crying, using the blood of the dead, to con the process of a better life. Many Inuit in Nunavik have never had any missing or murdered family members, so did, but most are just being kept in sickness by this, like many other reasons not to go forward.