MMIW stencil
A young child dressed in traditional Indigenous clothing and holding a doll is painted using a stencil and black paint. The letters "MMIW" {Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women] appear in red above the child. "Windigo Army" is painted in red spray paint in the lower right corner.
Windigo Army
Urban Art Mapping
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Artist: Windigo Army
Photographer: Allison Thornton
UAM-GF_3591
Unitarian Church of the Messiah
1491 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Arrival of the First Europeans -Informational Sign
Informational sign edited with a black sharpie pen. The original text noted that in 1792 British explorers were “stunned to find Spanish ships at Point Grey” and “were welcomed by villagers who presented gifts of fish…” Edits to this sign were made in black sharpie pen, changing the phrase “Early European explorers” to “Early European colonizers”. Also, it was noted that in addition to receiving European items such as “knives, pieces of iron, nails, buttons and sometimes guns” the Coast Silash People also “got their land stolen.”
Vancouver Park Board in collaboration with an unknown editor
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Photographer: Paul Lorah
Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada
Residential Schools Protest Site
Children’s clothing, stuffed animals, and photos of missing children are placed on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery to memorialize “215 children whose remains have been found buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, in Vancouver” according to <a href="https://www.vicnews.com/news/it-was-devastating-chief-recalls-after-remains-of-215-children-found-in-b-c/">Victoria News</a>. Some of the messages written on signs include:<br />“We are not accepting verbal apologies this year, only changed behavior”
<p>“No Pride in Genocide”</p>
<p>“Every child matters”</p>
<p>“Our Home on Stolen Land”<br /><br /></p>
<p>The protest responded to the abuse of Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. According to the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mass-grave-residential-schools.html"> New York Times</a> post on May 28, 2021: “An Indigenous community says it has found evidence that 215 children were buried on the grounds of a British Columbia school, one of the many in Canada set up to forcibly assimilate them.”</p>
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Photographer: Paul Lorah
Robson Square Vancouver, Canada. The intersection of Hornby Street and Robson Street.
No More Stolen Sisters
A white sign reads "No More Stolen Sisters" with a red handprint. The red handprint symbolizes the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement.
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Photographer: Paul Lorah
Robson Square Vancouver, Canada. The intersection of Hornby Street and Robson Street.
No More Stolen Sisters
Black paint on stairs near the Residential Schools Protest occupying Robson Square in Vancouver, Canada. The black paint reads "No More," "Stolen," and "Sisters." The protest responded to the abuse of Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. From the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mass-grave-residential-schools.html">May 28, 2021, New York Times</a>: “An Indigenous community says it has found evidence that 215 children were buried on the grounds of a British Columbia school, one of the many in Canada set up to forcibly assimilate them.”
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Photographer: Paul Lorah
Robson St. & Hornby St. Vancouver, BC V6Z 2E7, Canada
Red Handprint
A red handprint is painted on cement. The red handprint is a symbol of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement.
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Photographer: Paul Lorah
In Memory Shane
A figure's face is painted on the side of a building in white, blue, and red. Next to the figure, is a red heart with white wings. Around the heart, a date is written in blue, and "In Memory Shane" is written in white. Inside of the heart is a male figure holding up his middle finger.
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Photographer: Heather Shirey
Justice For Jared
A sticker reads "Justice For Jared" with a bald eagle. The bald eagle holds a ribbon in its talons that reads "Disarm-Defund-Dismantle Police For A Kinder-Safer Future."
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Photographer: Heather Shirey
Blue Lives Murder
"BLUE LIVES MURDER, JUSTICEFORJARED.ORG" is written on a brown wheatpasting on a wall of a building. The text is written in blue, red, and black. Surrounding the wheat pasting is other writing such as "no backstairs" in light blue.
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Photographer: Heather Shirey
Refugees Welcome
Four wheatpaste posters are placed on a wall. Two posters read "Antifa Area" while the other two read "Refugees Welcome."
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Photographer: Heather Shirey