Settler-Colonial Violence and Commodification of Indigenous Bodies: Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Marie Clements' Play The Unnatural and Accidental Women and Carl Bessai's Film Unnatural & Accidental.

This article examines the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) phenomenon in Canada, focusing on the historical and ongoing settler-colonial commodification and sexualization of Indigenous women's bodies. It analyzes Marie Clements's play *The Unnatural and Accidental Women* (2000) and Carl Bessai's film *Unnatural & Accidental* (2006), both of which critically portray the intersection of racist stereotypes and settler-colonial male violence through the lens of a serial murder case in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The works use surreal and symbolic elements to foreground Indigenous women's experiences and agency while exposing societal indifference and systemic violence rooted in colonial history, economic marginalization, and pervasive misogyny. The article highlights how these cultural productions challenge official narratives that label victims' deaths as "unnatural and accidental," emphasizing the need to recognize the premeditated nature of such violence within broader colonial and patriarchal structures.