Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (the ‘MMIWG Inquiry’) is the latest truth-seeking body to grapple with legacies of violence against indigenous peoples in settler colonial states. While the name, Missing and Murdered, ostensibly limits its scope of application to bodily integrity crimes, the MMIWG Inquiry instead embraced an expansive understanding of violence to encompass gross violations of indigenous cultural rights and cultural harm more generally. This article argues that this holistic approach represents a stark departure from mainstream transitional justice models which have overwhelmingly prioritised the redress of a limited set of civil and political rights violations, while neglecting the underlying structural violence and cultural harm that permeates divided societies. This article advances a case to understand the MMIWG Inquiry as a transitional justice mechanism and draws upon its Final Report to analyse how truth commissions can engage with cultural rights violations in more meaningful ways. By directly and robustly accounting for indigenous cultural harm, the MMIWG Inquiry challenged the conventional parameters of the field and demonstrated the opportunity and utility of addressing cultural rights violations through a transitional justice framework.

加拿大的全国失踪和被谋杀土著妇女和女童问题调查（简称“ MMIWG调查”）是最新的真相调查机构，致力于解决定居殖民地国家针对土著人民的暴力行为。虽然“失踪与谋杀”这个名称表面上将其适用范围限制在人身完整罪行上，但MMIWG查询却对暴力行为具有广泛的理解，以涵盖更广泛的对土著文化权利和文化损害的严重侵犯。本文认为，这种整体方法代表了与主流过渡时期司法模式的明显偏离，后者普遍压倒了有限的一系列侵犯公民权利和政治权利的行为，而忽视了遍布分裂社会的潜在结构性暴力和文化损害。本文提出了一个案例，以将MMIWG查询理解为一种过渡司法机制，并利用其最终报告来分析真相委员会如何以更有意义的方式处理侵犯文化权利的行为。MMIWG调查通过直接，有力地说明土著文化损害，挑战了该领域的常规参数，并展示了通过过渡司法框架解决侵犯文化权利的机会和效用。