WARNING: This story contains distressing details. For Brenda Wilson, the National Day of Awareness for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls is a day for families to unite and hold each other up. Hundreds of vigils are held across Canada Oct. 4 to honour the lives of Indigenous women, girls, and gender diverse people who have gone missing or been murdered. Wilson’s 16-year-old sister Ramona Wilson went missing in June 1994 from Smithers, B.C. Her body was found 10 months later in a wooded area. The case remains unsolved. “There’s still no answers in my sister’s case,” said Wilson. “Who did this to her? Who murdered her? Who hurt her? Who took her away from us?” Amnesty International Canada said the recent cases of Chelsea Poorman, Tatyanna Harrison and Noelle O’Soup in the lower mainland of British Columbia highlight that violence against Indigenous women and girls remains a crisis, with inadequate support from police. The final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls found that the violence experienced by Indigenous women, girls and gender diverse people amounts to genocide. In its 231 Calls for Justice, 11 were directed at police services, including calling for the establishment of standarized response times to reports of missing Indigenous people, and to improve communication with families.