Missing and murdered indigenous woman
Our stolen sisters
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Missing and murdered indigenous women.
There is an epidemic in Canada that many are unaware of; the epidemic is, our indigenous women keep going missing or found murdered.
Indigenous Peoples are at risk six times higher than any other race to end up missing and murdered. In a study done in 2016, there were 582 documented cases since the 1960s. With reason to believe the numbers are higher due to the most vulnerable woman not being reported or they got reported and the RCMP not taking it seriously.
British Columbia has the highest number of missing and murdered women across Canada. It is the home of a serial killer Robert Pickton a pig farmer from Coquitlam who was picking up sex workers in Vancouver's downtown eastside and bringing them back to his pig farm, where he murdered them fed them to his pigs. It's believed he was responsible for 49 women who disappeared from 1983 to 2002, when he was finally arrested on February 6, 2002, when a rookie cop investigating a firearms complaint discovered articles of clothing and other items belonging to a missing woman.
Then there is the infamous Highway 16, also known as The Highway of Tears, a 725-kilometre corridor stretching between Prince George BC and Prince Rupert BC, where an estimated 80 women disappeared or were found murdered dating back to 1970. Proposed explanations for so many years of these crimes happening and no arrests are due to poverty, drug abuse, domestic violence, and disconnect from traditional culture and families being torn apart from the foster care and residential schools. Poverty is a big part of many women being unable to own vehicles, so they hitchhike, making them fall victims to a serial killer who takes advantage of the soft soil, many wild animals and how isolated it is. The first investigation by the Rcmp to start looking at the cases as possibly being linked was done in December 1998. Accounts vary on the exact number of victims according to the RCMP project E-Pana list the number is fewer than 18 E-Pana also includes a large portion of people not related to the highway of tears. Aboriginal organizations believe the number of missing and murder is above 40.
There is no explanation as to why the indigenous are more likely to go missing then any other race yet they continue to vanish at an alarming rate.
Sadly most of the cases will continue to remain unsolved and the guilty will never be brought to justice. The only thing we can do is keep bringing awareness to these cases and direct the vulnerable to resources able to provide services that will help them from taking risks that could put them in the hands if a serial killer.
A list of some of the missing and murdered woman in Canada.
Traci Clifton -missing
Helen frost-missing
Jean Virginia Sampare-missing
Monica Ignas-murdered
Coreen Thomas-murdered
Mary Jane Hill-murdered
Jean Mary Kovacs-murdered
Roswitha Fuchsbicler-murdered
Nina Marie Joseph-murdered
Doreen Jack-missing
Alberta Williams -murdered
Cecilia Nikal-missing
Marnie Blanchard-murdered
Kimberly Dumais-murdered
Abigail Andrews-missing
Ada Brown-murdered
Aielah Saric Auger-murdered
Alannah Cardinal -murdered
Alice Netemgesic-murdered
Alisha Germaine-mudered
Amanda Cook-murdered
Amanda Simpson-murdered
Amanda Bartlett -missing
Amber Tuccaro-murdered
Amber Guiboche-missing
Andrea Meise-missing
Annette Holywhiteman-murdered
Angel carlick-murdered
Angela Meyer-missing
Angela Williams-murdered
Brooklyn Moose-murdered
Bonnie Joseph-missing
Brenda Campbell-mudered
Brittney Bearspaw-murdered
Caitlin Potts-missing
Carolyn Burns-missing
Chantelle Bushie-missing
Chantelle Catholique-missing
Coreen Moosomin-missing
Cynthia Audy-missing
Danielle Larue-missing
Danita Bigeagle-missing
Dawn Crey-missing
Delana Dixon-murdered
Edna Smith-missing
Elain Alook-missing
Emily Ballantyne -missing
Gladys Tolley-murdered
Gladys Simin-murdered
Helen Ratfat-missing
Marjorie Henderson-murdered
Henrietta Millek-missing
Immaculate Basil-missing
Irma Murdock-missing
Janet Henry -missing
Janice Desjarlais-missing
Joanne Ghostkeeper -missing
Juanita Cardinal -murdered
Kellie Little -missing
Krystal Knott-murdered
LanaDerrick -missing
Lavina Tocher-missing
Loretta Capot-blanc-murdered
Mabel Leo-missing
Maggie Burke-missing
Marie Mike-missing
Nadine Machiskinic-murdered
Nicole Daniels-murdered
The list goes on.
If you have any information on any of the missing woman on this list please contact The Canadian RCMP.
Help them find justice.
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