March calls attention to missing Native women
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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Native Women's Association of Canada organized marches across the country to raise awareness of Native women who have gone missing or have been killed.
About 50 people participated in a march in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on Sunday.
At least 16 Native women from the area have disappeared or have been killed in recent years.
"This is a community group which arose from concerns that aboriginal women were continuing [to disappear] and were still being murdered at a rate greater than other women," Saskatchewan Senator Lillian Dyck told CBC News. Government statistics show that young Native women are five times more likely than all other women to die as a result of violence.
Sisters In Spirit Vigils took place in nearly 40 communities across Canada.
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'Not one more,' marchers declare in march to honour missing women
(CBC 10/6)
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