Here’s another article on the blockade drawing attention to the missing and murdered indigenous women.

The federal government has already insisted that it is willing to commit $25 million to the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains. While this is a start, the mandate is not specific to why First Nations women are at a higher risk of violence due to historical and socio-economic factors.

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It seems lost on the Harper government that these women are being targeted because they are First Nations women…why?

And why have most of them occurred in the last 15 years?  A serial killer undetected?