by Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch

To the mothers, lovers, sisters, daughters, friends, cousins, aunties, grandmothers. In Love and memory your Spirits from beyond the stars walk on. by KatrA'Rhāya Raven

This spring the first flowers up were dandelions. My son was giving them to me as fleur pour ton coeur and then he loved when he could blow the white puffs into the air. I was looking at them thinking:good for the liver, cleanses the blood, good for anemia, constipation, rheumatism, high in B vitamins... the healing properties of the dandelion roots, leaves and flowers are amazing. Then the next day I was watching my neighbor spray her dandelions with toxic chemicals, rip them out of the earth and scowl, they were a weed on her beautiful yard. I started my vamps and I thought about all the positives these women had/have(hoping for the missing) and then the the negatives, dandelions seemed like the logical choice for my flower. by Naomi Racette

I believe that the women Prayed, when they knew that they would die. That is why there is a Rosary around them. Additionally, the beaded Rosary reresents the linkage of our Spirits and a circle of all of our Prayers. by Rose Ric Richardson

by Wyt Raven

by Kathy Robinson-Hays

by Sherry Farrell Racette

by Doreen Leigh Roman

These were by 2 of my granddaughters with some help from their dad by Doreen Leigh Roman

by Christiane Riverin

I had a hard time coming up with what I wanted to bead, but I eventually thought of the Cherokee Rose, which has a place in my people's more modern lore. It goes that while on the Trail of Tears, the children were dying from of hunger and exposure to the cold. The elders prayed for a sign to lift the mothers' spirits after losing their children and the Cherokee Rose began to grow from the mothers' tears. The rose still grows along the Trail of Tears today. I pray that all of the vamps created for this project bring comfort to the families of missing and murdered women like the rose did for the Tsalagi people. by Micalah Ann Ray

by Mallory Rice

by Annie Ross

by Christiane Riverin

by Christiane Riverin

I am calling them "A Ray of Light" to represent how this project is shedding light on such an important issue and to represent hope for healing. by Samantha Rae

by Shelley Sivia Rabinovitch

by Ryan Rice

I chose to do a hummingbird and butterfly to signify the grace and beauty that every onkwehon:we woman possesses! by Iewennaieri Rice

This project touched me as in Vancouver we have had a terrible occurrence of the missing women of the downtown Eastside as well as the ongoing occurrences in the northern area of the province with the "Highway of Tears" and the mystery of how these women disappeared. Poppies always feel so bright and fragile when you find them in a meadow. They are associated in my mind with John McRae's poem which he wrote in WWI. I used silk threads and silk fabric on ultrasuede backing. by Patricia Ross

by Amber Richardson

by Lucy Robinson-Cook

Wings of Thunder by Gerri Ann Riehl-Bandur

by Janelle Roy

by Sherry Farrell Racette

Sisters under 13 Moons on Turtle Island. My vamps have two sisters on a wooden walkway looking at the moon. The first being a crescent moon, the second a full moon. No matter where you are, or how far apart, you can look at the same moon your loved one may be looking at too. We love and miss them 13 moons a year; every season, every harvest, every gathering. The moons are birch bark collected in Northern Wisconsin. If you look closely at the sister with the heart wings, she has a halo – angels among us. They are near to our hearts. The medicine wheel circles the full moon. After beading, and I am a first time Vamp beader, I noticed it looked like one yellow bead was missing. I also noticed I attached the medicine wheel flip flopped. I decided not to fix it. The missing yellow bead and the backwards wheel symbolize lost youth to me, and sisters that had to grow up too fast because of these horrid experiences. Many did not live to that direction in the life circle. The leather was gifted to me by a moccasin instructor at the 2013 Nagaajiwanaang Ojibwe Language Camp on the Fond Du Lac reservation in Sawyer, Minnesota. She was teaching how to make baby moccasins, in tribute to the babies who are born with fetal alcohol syndrome, or that fall victim to the high infant mortality rate among our Native people. You can still smell the campfire within six feet of them. For her and the missing sisters that may have been pregnant or did not have the chance to be a mother, I took the missing yellow bead and created [...]

The black velvet represents the darkness and sorrow. The large white flower represents all the lost women and children who are all innocent and pure. Finally the silver small flowers are families left here on Mother Earth. by Karen Skaggs-Roblee

by Seven Generations Education Institute