Women attend the closing ceremony of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on Monday in Gatineau, Quebec.(Chris Wattie / Reuters)

Indigenous journalists from the U.S. and Canada gathered recently in Winnipeg for a conference on important issues - like the missing and murdered. It's a tragedy that knows no boundaries.

Antonia Gonzalez of National Native News was there and filed this report for the Mountain West News Bureau.