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Aboriginal Women: Overview Report

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No one should have to go through the pain of having a family member or friend stolen from their lives or ripped out of their home and murdered for no reason. As this issue has been going on unsolved for several decades now, people feel more unsafe walking around at night, not only in the areas with higher crime rate but also everyday places. We do not want to think or worry that one day we will get a phone call from one of our friends parents asking if we know were so and so are or have them tell us they died/ went missing. We feel that the government believes their doing everything they can to keep everyone feel safe but in reality most of us do not, no one says anything because we do not know what to say or who to go to with …show more content…

It is called, ¨Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women:Overview,¨ by Edana Beauvais written in 2017. Itś main focus is the National Operational Overview Report made by the RCMP on Canada’s violence against Aboriginal women in 2014, which proved again that Aboriginal women are more likely to suffer violent death and get abducted then non-Aboriginal women. The reasoning behind all the violence and wrongdoings against Aboriginal women is believe to be the scars left by residential schools, lack of housing, poverty and racism. In addition because of the past relationship between Aboriginals and the authorities being rocky from things like the sixties scoop where many First Nation children were taken from their homes, many Aboriginal families are scared to reach out for help from social services and trust the authorities. In 2014 there were 1071 homicide cases and 164 missing Indigenous women that were police reported. However there were and are many more that didn’t and won’t get reported to the police! Aboriginal women are three times more likely to face violence than non-Aboriginals. In this report the police didn’t bring up the unexplained cases at the time. Along with the report E-PANA, an RCMP task force, is studying if serial killers are responsible for the murdering of young women on highway 16 in BC. After 15 year …show more content…

The governing party at the time, conservatives lead by Stephen Harper, and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police didn’t agree with the inquiry and believed it would simply slow down the police’s investigations. When Justin Trudeau took over the office in 2015 he stated a national inquiry would begin in 2016. The inquiry didn’t satisfy what the Aboriginal committee was asking for. It was to look into the causes of the disappearances and

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Indigenous people are incarcerated at much higher rates than non-Indigenous in Canada and are incarcerated for longer periods of time (Cook & Roesh, 2012, p.222). Canadians have put Indigenous communities through much heartache and pain. With the colonization of Indigenous people to residential schools, Canadians continue to stigmatize and treat Indigenous people poorly. Indigenous people are more likely to suffer from drug abuse using needles because of the intergenerational trauma suffered through their parents attending residential schools in Canada (Bombay, Matheson, & Anisman, 2014, p. 327). This puts them at a higher criminal risk than others because of what they have been subjected to.

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Sadly, it states that the amount of cases that have been filed, which is 506 in the report, has most definitely been an understatement. It is stated that, “4 out of 5 Indigenous women have experienced violence”. This is similar to the victim, Brandy Vittrekwa, who was beaten to death. It also shows that most victims are murdered in more urban areas. Brandy happened to be killed around Christmas time, and left along a trail.

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But, determinates such as social, economic and historical events that play such a large role in Aboriginal women’s mental health and lead to depression, psychological disorders and self-destructive behaviours (Halseth, 2013). A serious threat that Aboriginal women experience that trampers with their mental health are the physical, verbal and emotional violence they endure in their own homes and in Canadian society as a whole (Halseth, 2013). These women are three and a half more times likely to experience violence and are also more likely to suffer seriously damaging

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Initially, European invasion meant that Aboriginal people were held accountable to a law they neither understood, nor believed in. Their own laws have throughout history been rejected, ridiculed and ignored. The Stolen Generations are another issue of mistrust. Aboriginal children were removed from their families under government orders, and for many Indigenous people, the presence of government officials is still associated with family separation. Past events, including dispossession of land, separation of families, poverty, racism, unemployment, overrepresentation in the justice system, education standards and loss of identity, country and connection to land, have led to Aboriginal people being disadvantaged when compared to the wider Australian population (NSW Department of Community Services, 2009).

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Introduction Discrimination based on race, gender and Aboriginal status continues to be a recurring theme in the lives of Aboriginals that live in Canada. Colonialism has had a negative impact on the lives and lifestyles of Aboriginals throughout Canada. They were forced into reserves that were located in unsuitable land for the European settlers to use. The European settlers would refer to the aboriginals as ‘barbaric’ and ‘uncivilized’ while they categorized themselves as ‘educated’ and ‘cultural’ (Farihah Ali, 2015). This mentality is what emerged the negative stereotypes directed towards Aboriginal people and has also had a negative impact in their way of life.

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20% Percentage by which Aboriginal Australians are more likely to commit offences of violence than their non-Indigenous counterparts (Korff,2016). The media depicts Indigenous people as trouble makers that begin violence. However, that is a false representation because they are many loving and caring Indigenous people in Australia. Just because one Indigenous person is into violence it doesn’t make it right for the media to portray all Indigenous people as violent trouble makers. 20 % of Indigenous people in Australis are violent because social media makes them feel inferior in their own country.

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