Colorlines Q&A: Where is the Data on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?
Investigative journalist, Connie Walker, of the Okanese First Nation in Canada, discusses her work, the media’s lack of response and her podcast, Stolen: The Search for Jermain.
Photo Credit: Connie Walker, courtesy of Connie Walker; Stolen show art, courtesy of Jessie Harte, Elise Harven and Talia Rochmann
Nearly 30 years ago, in 1995, 28-year-old
Pamela Jean George a mother of two from the Sakimay First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada was brutally murdered by two white, affluent men, ages 19 and 20. The following year,
MacLean’s reported that the men boasted about driving around, getting drunk, sexually assaulting and killing George. MacLean’s also noted that one of the murderers was even reported to have told a friend, “She deserved it. She was Indian.” For killing George, the two university students received
Posted: Jan 06, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 6
A survivor of the Sixties Scoop, Crystal Semaganis is working to piece together an identity that was torn away from her by government policy.(Submitted by Crystal Semaganis)
When I see the cultural appropriation and identity theft of Indigenous people the Latimer situation and others like it it stirs something ancient in me, that resonates deep like the heartbeat of Mother Earth herself.
I was part of the Sixties Scoop. For those of you unfamiliar with that term, it refers to the tens of thousands of Indigenous children apprehended by the government to be assimilated and raised in non-Indigenous homes. In my case, the AIM (Adopt Indian and Métis) program of Saskatchewan from the 1960s and 1970s placed me permanently in a white family in small-town Saskatchewan.