A new documentary is in the works to highlight and bring attention to the missing and murdered indigenous women of First Nations Canada. With over 4,000 cases, Saldana feels that a film like this deserves as much attention as we can get. “If this exact same story were being told...
Never Forget - The Stolen - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women From Wikipedia The exact number of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or have been murdered in Canada since the 1970s is uncertain, with estimates ranging from approximately 1,000 to nearly 4,000.[8] In response to activists, the Canadian...
Jesse James White who is Hunkpapa/Lakota won the first horse race of the night and brought attention in his victory to the issue of our missing and murdered indigenous women. His shirt bore a message about it and even in interviews afterward talked of the women and of the genocide....
NowThis recently interviewed 16-year-old Amaia Marcos (Oglala Lakota) at the 2018 Women’s March, where she was raising awareness of violence against indigenous women. “We’re taken advantage of all the time and we’re done. We’re sick of it," Marcos stated. “Our Auntie went missing a while ago and so we haven’t...