Running Bird is remembered as a loving daughter and mother from the Siksika Nation in Alberta. Growing up, she enjoyed traditional beading she learned from her mother. When she was born, Mavis Crowchild (mother) told her “You’re going to be a traditional girl.” Running Bird has been missing since March 26, 1995. She was last seen with her partner, Fred Lagrelle, while leaving for a hunting trip. Police have not determined foul play; Lagrelle passed away 2016. “I know I’ll never see my sister. I’ll never get to say hi. I’ll never get to hear her laugh. I’ll never get to hear her say, ‘I love you,’ or, ‘I’ll see you next time.” “In the Blackfoot language, there is no word for goodbye.”- Keith Running Bird (Brother)

Roberta Geraldine Lincoln, 34, was found dead in the hallway of the eighth floor at the Balmoral Hotel at 159 East Hastings St. in Vancouver on July 31, 1993.

Nellie Angutiguluk moved from the small village of Puvirnituq in Nunavik to Montreal after the death of her husband. She leaves behind three children and is remembered as “a quiet, kind, sweet individual” who was “generous, [and] she shared whatever she had.” Nellie Angutiguluk was taken too soon in May 2015 as a victim of domestic violence. 54% of Indigenous women have reported “severe forms of family violence” compared to 37% of non-Indigenous women (Native Women’s Association of Canada, Fact Sheet: Violence Against Women).

Marlene was born November 23, 1957. She was a member of the Pine Creek First Nation, Manitoba. Marlene went missing in the winter of 1983 from Vancouver BC. That winter she had called her sister in the middle of the night crying, saying she would be traveling to Calgary. When she didn’t arrive at her sister’s home in Revelstoke Alberta, her family tried repeatedly to report her missing. It wouldn’t be until 2002 that an official missing report was filed after police showed up at Marlene’s home with news about a man suspected of murdering women and hiding their bodies on his pig farm in British Columbia (Robert Pickton). No DNA was ever located and Marlene has never been found.

Marilyn was 52 years old when she died on December 24th, 2006 in Edmonton, Alberta. She and her nephew had gotten into an altercation. Both Marilyn and her nephew had been drinking that night. The nephew was under the influence of cocaine as well. Marilyn had passed out and when she awoke, she started throwing glass bottles at her nephew who got so enraged that he put his aunt in a choke-hold followed by a rope around her neck. Marilyn was strangled to death.

Leah Anderson belonged to the Cree community of Gods Lake Narrows in Northern Manitoba. Leah went missing after she had left home to go skating with friends at the local arena the night of January 4th, 2013. When she didn’t return home that night, her family assumed that she had stayed overnight with friends. When Leah didn’t arrive home the next day, or call to inform her family of her whereabouts, they realized that something was wrong. The community as a whole banded together to search for her. Leah was 15 years old when her beaten, disfigured body was found on January 6th, 2013, along a snowmobile trail on the reserve. Found alongside her body were her skates and the bag that she had left home with. No suspect has been found in her case. The family believes that much of the evidence that could have brought answers was destroyed during the snowfall that occurred during the time that Leah was missing.

Laura was a member of the Île-à-la-Crosse Metis Settlement in Saskatchewan. She was murdered a year after her sister Bernadette. Like her sister, she too was 22 years old at the time of her death. No arrest has been made in her case.

Loretta Capot-Blanc, 31, was a mother of one who disappeared from her home on the Fort Nelson First Nation in British Columbia on August 11, 1997. Three weeks later, community members found her remains buried under a haystack on the reserve. RCMP in Fort Nelson called the case a suspicious death, while investigators from Prince George RCMP came to the reserve to assist in the investigation. Eighteen years later, the case remains unsolved.

Lori Lee Kasprick was 14-years-old when she was last seen by her family in 1976. The family moved to Hilliard, about 90 kilometers east of Edmonton, Alberta,a year before her disappearance. Before that, she had lived in Winnipeg and Vogar, Man. Despite sightings of her in Edmonton and Winnipeg, she has never been found.

Lorilee Mae Francis was 24 years old when she went missing in October 2007. Her family reported her missing in December of that year. They were concerned because she usually contacted them around Christmas. Police say she was living a high-risk lifestyle. Her disappearance is handled by the KARE unit, an RCMP entity that investigates files of murdered or missing vulnerable persons in Alberta. Police said Francis has no family in the area, and may have left northwest Alberta and moved elsewhere.

Leah Anderson, 15, told her aunt she was going ice skating when she left the house in God’s Lake Narrows in Manitoba, on Jan. 4, 2013. Leah never came home and two days later, she was found dead on a snowmobile trail. In 2017, police made an arrest in connection with her murder but the suspect was released without any charges.

Leanne Benwell, 27, was living near Edmonton, Alta., at the time of her disappearance in 2007. Her body was found in a remote area three months after she went missing. A provincial medical examiner determined that her case was not criminal in nature, according to her mother, Connie Benwell. Now, Alberta RCMP say they are reviewing her case and have offered to meet with Connie, who believes Leanne met with foul play.