Talk:GRSJ224/MissingandMurderedIndigenouswomen

Great topic! It very well ties in with what we have been working on in the course, so I was really happy to follow along with your information and ideas! The page is very neat and there are no grammer/spelling mistakes. It seems like you worked very hard on this and this topic was something that you really had on your mind for a while! It would have been cool to maybe see some narratives or have links to news or the community talking about this issue, but overall great way to formally, and respectively open up the topic at hand! Thank you!

I really enjoyed reading this page. It is something that i am not familiar with and really enjoyed educating myself on it. I would have really loved if you would have included some specific stories and how the govenrment has dealt with these situations. The story you mentioned briefly about the fifteen year old girl was a great start but i think you should elaborate further and really take the reader through the entire process of the situation. I also think by tieing in some course topics such as the indigenious narratives, intersectionality and feminism would really bring this whole page together.

This is a very present and crucial topic to talk about, especially today in Canada. I think by adding a few more ways that Indigenous women are showing resistance against these cases would really benefit your page. For example the "walking with our sisters" project is a for a resistance that consists of a collaboration of Indigenous art that is used to represent all the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. This project would be good to highlight and show that although these women are facing oppression and injustices, they continue to fight for their sisters, moms, aunts, grandmother, etc. The project is also a good way to gain recognition to the issue as the art installation travels to cities and communities around Canada.

I found your topic super interesting and I believe this topic is still prevalent and salient in Canada today. Maybe you should mention or create a section on some real life cases in Canada; or even talk about Vancouver's East Side (And relate some concepts/ topics we have learnt in this course so far)! Also, maybe you can juxtapose between the high population of murdered indigenous women and the high population of indigenous women who are incarcerated in British Columbia, let a lone Canada today.

Hi,

It's great that you're talking about this issue! One thing I would suggest is, as examples of how much Indigenous women are represented in violence, there is an RCMP report‡ that shows how much they make up of all female homicide victims in Canada and how much they make up the female population in Canada. You can briefly talk about the discrepancy between those two figures.

Another thing is Robert Pickton's case in 2002 where 33 women were killed by the serial killer and, again, Indigenous women were over-represented in his victims.

Best,

Youngmin Choi

‡Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview [e-book]. [Ottawa]: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, c2014.; 2014.

I agree with Youngmin, I think using specific examples will help demonstrate the severity of this issue. Overall, I really liked the tone of your article and the organization made for an easy read. I also appreciate how you identified police as a major hurdle in the prevention of these crimes. However, I think there are other (maybe lesser) culprits as well. For example, the media does not report on missing cases with the same fervor when the victims are First Nations women. I would also suggest that if you have room, to include a bit on what the current Trudeau government is currently doing to combat this issue. Although we don't know if it's made things better or worst, it is drastically different from the Harper government's approach.