{"id":13408,"date":"2017-02-10T09:27:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13408"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:32:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T17:32:43","slug":"local-march-honours-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/02\/10\/local-march-honours-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Local march honours missing and murdered indigenous women"},"content":{"rendered":"

The provincial crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women continues; here in Victoria, there will be a gathering and a memorial march on Sunday to remember those women. University of Victoria practicum student Jessica Dawn is an event organizer for the march; she says that governments need to be doing more about the situation, and that the march can help raise awareness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe often have an elder who does the prayer,\u201d she says, \u201cand at the Legislature we also have opportunities for speakers from the community, as well as for family members who have lost loved ones, to share their stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This year’s Stolen Sisters Memorial March will be held on February 12 (image provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dawn says the government could be doing more to address the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada, which impacts aboriginal communities all across Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been lots of women and families who have articulated ways for local and federal governments to be more involved and address some of the fundamental funding issues with some of the services to indigenous communities, particularly rural communities,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Along with funding issues, and issues relating to isolation and lack of transportation, Dawn believes that police departments or investigators may be treating missing indigenous women differently than they would treat other women.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there’s an opportunity for local and federal governments to be doing more,\u201d she says. \u201cI think that in a lot of cases, when a white educated woman goes missing it\u2019s a different profile for indigenous women who have lived what is \u2018a high-risk lifestyle.\u2019 So I think perception is an issue, and also the ways in which resources get allocated, and they are not always allocated evenly. I think those are some of the things happening on the Highway of Tears and other places in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stolen Sisters Memorial March
\n11 am Sunday, February 12
\nCorner of Pandora and Quadra
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The provincial crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women continues; here in Victoria, there will be a gathering and a memorial march on Sunday to remember those women. University of Victoria practicum student Jessica Dawn is an event organizer for the march; she says that governments need to be doing more about the situation, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t