Introduction : violence against indigenous women and the representational politics of resistance -- The missing women commission of inquiry : story-based methods in public inquiry and commemorative film -- Narrative appeals : the stolen sisters report and storytelling in activist discourse and poetry -- Colonial violence, feminist anti-violence discourse, and memoir -- Recognition, remembrance, and redress : the politics of memorialization in the cases of Helen Betty Osborne and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash -- Conclusion : thinking beyond the national inquiry: a red girl's reasoning.