Breaking News: Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women GENOCIDE (NYT)
Some 1,181 Indigenous women were killed or disappeared across the country from 1980 to 2012, according to a 2014 report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Indigenous advocates, and the report, say the number is likely far higher since so many deaths have gone unreported.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/world/canada/indigenous-women-girls-violence-inquiry.html
The Final Report on the Canadian Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls |
Report here.
“Reclaiming Power and Place
The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. . The two volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country.”
My writing on MMIWG at Dean’s blog LEFT HOOK here
The federal government’s policy of termination against tribes lasted from 1887 to 1943. Native people were stripped of their cultures, languages, and ancestral instructions and expected to adopt the ways of the colonizer. Our ceremonies became illegal. Children and adults alike suffered and died to save them. These things survive today only because they continued in secret.
Throughout this time, mainstream society participated in our degradation and erasure. Pop culture hypersexualized native women with its “Pocahottie” imagery, and dehumanized us by saying we’re little more than a Halloween costume.
Today, we are still being hunted and killed.
There is an epidemic of missing and murdered native women throughout North America, but even though it’s been going on for decades and many native families on the continent can recount stories of loved ones who’ve gone missing or been murdered, there remains insufficient data on the problem because there’s been no centralized database for keeping that information.
In 2013, the Canadian government began a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, but the United States has yet to take such action.
READ: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Need Your Support | Teen Vogue
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So disturbing!!!!
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Yes, it is.
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I couldn’t open the link from here either. I don’t understand people. It just never gets better. My heart hurts.
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Such evil continues, but it is up to us to oppose it, to shine a light on it, so justice can be done.
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Someday’s, the best I can do is spread as much kindness to anyone I come in contact with and hope it keeps moving forward.
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I think that spreading kindness however you can is one of the most important actions all of us can do.
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I had no idea. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
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Liz, you are very welcome.
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How can people be so cruel? It seems like we never learn.
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I think many of us do learn, but we must always continue to learn more.
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Well said, Charles.
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Jennie, thank you.
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You are welcome!
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Thank you very much for the information, Charles! Best wishes, Michael
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Michael, you are very welcome.
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Thank you very much, Charles. So kind of you. Be blessed. Michael
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Michael, you are welcome.
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Thank you so much for sharing this breaking and continuing news, Charles. (Sorry the reblog button is not working. I’m working on it 🙂
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You are very welcome, and I hope the reblog button works soon!
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So sad and disturbing… I did recently see a short report about that huge number of missing Indigenious girls and women in German TV.
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Yes, it is very disturbing.
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