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Examples Of Unsolved Cases Of Killed Indigenous Women

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Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: the road to reconciliation Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) is an often overlooked and neglected phenomenon, based on racism, colonialism, and gender-based violence that warrants solutions and reconciliation. For only 4% of the Canadian population (1.5 million people), Indigenous women and girls make up 25% of unsolved murder cases. To understand the insanity of that statistic, it's similar to the whopping 7% of Americans (2.3 million people) out of 333 million (4% of the world population) who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. One of the reasons that contribute to this giant number of unsolved cases is the negative stereotypes against Indigenous people. Preconceived …show more content…

Stereotypes like those, paired with gender-based violence, can lead to crimes being under-reported and normalized. Indigenous women are 4.5 times more likely to be murdered than anyone else in Canada. Out of 4000 cases of murdered Indigenous women, half are unsolved. One of these cases, unsolved due to police negligence and stereotypes, is the murder of Nicole …show more content…

It affects all of Canada and serves as a commentary on our society. This issue reflects our nation’s long history of racism and gender-based violence. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to action #41 “call[s] upon the federal government, in consultation with Aboriginal organizations, to appoint a public inquiry into the causes of, and remedies for, the disproportionate victimization of Aboriginal women and girls. The inquiry’s mandate would include an investigation into missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls, and links to the intergenerational legacy of residential schools.” Abiding by this call to action is an essential step for Canada to uphold justice, equality, 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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We Were Children, the documentary on residential schools, is a re-enactment of two aboriginal children and their first hand experiences in the residential school system. The kinds of problems this documentary presented include mistreatment faced by the children who attended these schools, corruption and scandal inside the administration of the schools, and the false perception about these schools that resonated amongst Canadian society. These two children talk about the bullying they had to endure from the nuns which show that the children were not seen as equal to a child of non-Aboriginal decent. Furthermore, the types of abuse administration would put these kids through was immensely disturbing considering this was a state run institution.

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Research has indicated that more than 500 Indigenous women have gone missing or murdered in Canada since the 1980’s as the awareness to the violence is minimal (Gilchrist, 2010). A specific example of this is the disappearance of Lisa Marie Young on June 30, 2002 in Nanaimo, British Columbia (Native Women’s Association of Canada, 2017). Lisa was 21 years old when she disappeared from a night celebrating a birthday as one of her friends had a conversation with a male stranger who then offered them a ride to a house party. Upon arrival, Lisa said she was hungry and the male offered to drive her to get food once he dropped her friends off at the party, ever since then she was never seen again (Native Women’s Association of Canada, 2017). Authorities did not seem to be concerned as the search for Lisa commenced in September 2002, two months after her disappearance.

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