PPT-Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada

Francis Furfaro Confederation College CFOL848 Overview Introduction Background Government Response Awareness Campaigns Conclusion Introduction Appalling statistics have recently been released by the RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police indicating that there are over 1000 Indigenous women who have been reported missing or murdered since 1980. AT NO PS64573751152014E57375PDF ISBN 978573751573751005737523789573753 brPage 3br RCMP National Operational Overview Executive summary n late 2013 the Commissioner of the CM ini tiated an CM led study of reported incidents of missing and murdered The Cruelly Murdered we think have quite excellent writing style that make it easy to comprehend A Letter from the Front She did not know then that all her family had been cruelly murdered in Stutthof concentration camp Af ter the war Zenya let me r The missing and m urdered Aboriginal women are our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, aunties, neices, cousins, partners and wives and they are missed and honoured every day . For years Abo The Friendship Centre Movement. Creating Opportunity for Canadian Urban Aboriginal Peoples. FIESS. October . 1. 9, 2011. Montreal, QC. National Association of Friendship Centres. 275 . MacLaren. Street. Note: . Aboriginal . peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that the example resources may contain images and names of deceased persons. .. Country and Place: . ‘Country’ is a space that individuals or groups of Aboriginal peoples occupy and regard as their own. . (MMAW). Community Engagement & Research Initial Results. Alberta Victims Services. Policy and Program Development Branch. Alberta Justice and Solicitor General. 1. 2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Participating communities across the Province:. Woman holds a placard of a murdered Aboriginal woman. Most of the cases involve young women and girls. Just over half of the cases (55%) involve women and girls under the age of 31, with 17% of women Augustus, Octavian. Laws banning gambling, drinking, idleness, and divorce.. A great Roman Emperor. Caligula. Appointed horse consul.. Killed w/o remorse.. Believed himself to be above the laws of normalcy and decency. . ATTEMPTS AT ASSIMILATION . Legislated Colonization. . These social control aspects of the Indian Act placed Indians in the position of a colonized people. As Harold Cardinal asserted "Instead of implementing the treaties and offering much needed protection to Indian rights the Indian Act subjugated to colonial rule the very people whose rights if was supposed to protect". . st. Century. When the first Europeans arrived in Canada in the 1500's they found the land populated by about 400,000 to 500,000 Aboriginal peoples.. Aboriginal myths suggest the first nations originated here, with the help of a spirit.. ATTEMPTS AT ASSIMILATION . Legislated Colonization. . These social control aspects of the Indian Act placed Indians in the position of a colonized people. As Harold Cardinal asserted "Instead of implementing the treaties and offering much needed protection to Indian rights the Indian Act subjugated to colonial rule the very people whose rights if was supposed to protect". . Earl Nowgesic, RN, BScN, MHSc, PhD. Assistant Professor. Interim Director, Waakebiness-Bryce . Institute for Indigenous Health. Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University . of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. in WWII. 1939 - 1945. WWII begins. WWII began on September 1, 1939 and would end on May 8, 1945 with the surrender of Nazi Germany.. Canada would play a major role in this war.. Racism prejudice. In this context, the milieu of racism in Canada, Aboriginals regardless once again stepped up to volunteer to fight in a war overseas and to defend a country that constantly attempted to be rid of them.. APRALTHirsT NaTionInuiT7oMenx0007s HeaLTh9Vonne BoYerMarch 2006NaTiVe LaW CenTre UniVersiTY oF SasKaTcheWan NaTionaL ABoriGinaL HeaLTh OrGaniZaTion NaTionaL ABoriGinaL HeaLTh OrGaniZaTion x0008NAH