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- ↑ Austin Grabish (17 June 2017). "Drag the Red searchers get grim lesson on finding, identifying bones". CBC News. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- 1 2 "New 'one of a kind' boat will help Drag the Red continue search for missing in Winnipeg rivers". CBC News. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ↑ Leyland Cecco (9 June 2019). "Canadian volunteers scour river for missing Indigenous women". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ↑ Akeesha Footman (4 August 2016). "This River documentary searches for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls". Muskrat Magazine. Retrieved 30 September 2021.