500 native women who have disappeared or been murdered in the last 20 years

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A grieving mother led a caravan of marchers Friday to remember the hundreds of native women who've been murdered or gone missing since 1985.

One of them is her daughter, Daleen Kay (Muskego) Bosse.

"We're still waiting for her to come home," said Pauline Muskego, fighting tears.

"And we're still believing that she will come home."

Daleen, then 26, was last seen on May 18, 2004 in Saskatoon.

She was close to her daughter Faith, now four, a curly-haired youngster who walked amongst the marchers as they arrived from the Onion Lake First Nation, 350 kilometres north of Saskatoon.

About 40 members of the Cree community left their home five days earlier. They took turns running or walking the distance over rural Saskatchewan roads that seem to stretch to the horizon.

It cites how the disappearance of five native women along a lonely stretch of B.C. highway between Prince Rupert and Prince George barely caused a media ripple. Alberta Williams, Delphine Nikal, Ramona Wilson, Roxanne Thiara and Lana Derrick all vanished between 1988 and 1995 along what is now known as the Highway of Tears.

A $5,000 reward is offered for any information about the young mother, who is approximately five-foot-five and weighed 170 pounds when she disappeared. She wears glasses or contact lenses.

Daleen is just one of about 500 women who have disappeared or been murdered in the last 20 years, says Beverley Jacobs.

That figure is an estimate based on preliminary research and anecdotal evidence, said the president of the Native Women's Association of Canada. She suspects the total is higher.

Most Canadians don't realize the seriousness of the issue, Jacobs said
http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/news/story.html?id=64a1f9bd-f68b-466c-8ffc-3051acb1d5ab
 
Remembering them during Native American Indian Month. A quick search of the Doenetwork indicates a number of unknown and missing women believed to be Native Americans.
 
Today police found the remains of a woman, in Saskatchewan. Its too early to know if she was Native, or anything else.

I've posted the story here:
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=916420#post916420

What is interesting is that there was a recent new announcement into some large funding for the search for missing people - its mentioned at the end of the article. There are a large number of Native people who go missing in Western Canada, so hopefully this will assist in locating more!
 
If someone wants to talk about a racial group that gets little or no media attention or discussion...

Try to find "Trail of Tears" in your kid's history books! :furious:
 
Or read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.



shadowangel said:
If someone wants to talk about a racial group that gets little or no media attention or discussion...

Try to find "Trail of Tears" in your kid's history books! :furious:
 
The body of missing 14-year-old Aielah Katherina Saric has been found near Highway 16 near Prince George, a region that has been plagued by disappearances and murders of young women over the past 15 years.

"It just seems too coincidental that all this is going on," said Tom Chipman, whose own daughter, 22-year-old Tamara Chipman of Terrace, was last seen hitchhiking along the same highway in September 2005.

At least nine women, including Chipman, have disappeared or have been murdered since 1990 in the Prince George area, and some estimates put the number of missing women considerably higher.

Many have vanished along the 724-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 -- the so-called Highway of Tears -- that runs west from Prince George to Prince Rupert.

All but one of the women were aboriginal, and all were between the ages of 15 and 25 at the time of their disappearance, leading many people in the community to speculate a serial killer may be at work.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=e66fb5b4-1b69-4dee-bc19-58d5cd68a009
 
RCMP have repeatedly said they cannot rule out the possibility that a serial killer could be preying on women along Highway 16. But they also say they've found no evidence to link the cases.
http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_pg-murder20060215.html

There is a lot of speculation in Canada about whether a serial killer is targeting Native American women here. As long as the possibility exists, I think LE should keep an open mind while investigating these unsolved cases.
 
Mullins said:
Or read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.

I think you're missing something, since I'm a history teacher. The Trail of Tears has been in history books for years, as has been Wounded Knee. Every h.s. history teacher that I know teaches both. And, yes, they are both in The Americans, a widely distributed text.
 
Most people are busy preparing for Christmas, but a father in northwestern B.C. has been searching lonely stretches of highway and logging roads trying to find his missing daughter.

"We've pretty well covered every side road between Terrace and (Prince) Rupert," explains Tom Chipman, sitting with his wife Christine in the Kitsumkalum Firehall, headquarters for the daily ground search for Tamara Chipman, a pretty 22-year-old with a lovely smile.

"We're up at six every morning and we quit at dusk. I know everybody's getting tired. I don't know how long we can carry on. I guess until the snow comes and the weather shuts us down."

It's a Friday night in this northwestern B.C. town, and the volunteers are tired after walking about 15 kilometres, hunting for a shred of evidence of Tamara.

Tom Chipman has also walked along Highway 16, which runs between Prince Rupert and Terrace, looking in culverts for his daughter.

"It's scary looking into a culvert," says Chipman, who makes his living as a gillnet fisherman. "Every day we don't find a body is a good day."

Chipman searched for his daughter -- his only child -- six days straight last week. A heavy snowfall last Sunday closed the road to Prince Rupert and curtailed search efforts temporarily. He resumed the search this week.

His daughter was last seen Sept. 21 hitchhiking outside Prince Rupert, heading toward her home in Terrace. She has a two-year-old son, Jaden, who is being cared for his father, Rob Parker, who was the last to hear from her.

According to Amnesty International Canada, Tamara's disappearance brings to 33 the number of missing or murdered women along the highway -- all but one were aboriginal.


http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=11eba736-3c10-4795-8e42-156321266647&k=59454
 
Although this is NOT along the hiway of tears, there is an unidentified Native woman that has been found in Alberta. She was found on April 8, 1979 and is thought to have died 1-2 years earlier. She was found In Banff, Alberta.

Photo of reconstruction and more details at:

http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/5ufab.html
 
No funeral service is planned in Prince George. Instead, a service will be held in Driftpile Cree Nation north of Edmonton.

Aielah's body was discovered in a highway ditch last Friday by a motorist near Tabor Mountain, 17 kilometres east of Prince George.

Police have not released the time or cause of death, but are treating it as a homicide.

"We have as many investigators as possible on this case," said RCMP spokesman Const. Gary Godwin.

The First Nations teen was last seen by her family Feb. 2. At the time, family members said she stayed overnight with a friend and were told there had been an unconfirmed sighting of her getting into a black van Feb. 3.

Aielah's mother, Audrey Auger, spent days combing the city in a vain attempt to find the teen.

Mary Teegee, director of Carrier Sekani Family Services, last night told Global BC a taskforce should examine if there are any links between the eight native women who have disappeared since 1990.

Teegee, who oversees an organization with annual revenues of almost $10 million, said that if white girls from West Vancouver had gone missing there would be a massive investigation.

"It's long overdue that there be a public enquiry," Teegee said.

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=70a6111a-4d36-48f2-bf9e-8aefe142fdaa&k=91427
 
I posted this in the Missing but not Forgotten forum. I thought I should post this here as well:

Winnipeg police say they have no new leads on the case of an aboriginal teenager who disappeared two years ago today.


Sunshine Wood was last seen leaving the St. Regis Hotel in downtown Winnipeg around midnight on Feb. 20, 2004. Six months earlier, she had moved to Winnipeg from the Gods River First Nation to attend high school.

http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/story/mb_sunshine-wood-20060220.html

Poster at this link:
http://popeye.discash.com/childfind/db/child.cgi?alias=141
 
First nations leaders are calling for a more coordinated approach to police investigations into the cases of eight women missing or murdered along Highway 16, the so-called highway of tears that runs between Prince George and Prince Rupert.

"No one wants to repeat the mistakes of the investigations into the missing or murdered women on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver," Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said Tuesday.

The lessons learned from that tragedy, he said, could yield positive results in the Highway 16 investigations.

The First Nations Leadership Council recently sent a letter to the RCMP calling for a more coordinated approach, by combining the expertise of all past and present RCMP officers who worked on the cases over the years.

Edward John, Grand Chief of the First Nations Summit, said the First Nations Leadership Council is confident the RCMP is willing to strengthen its response to the issue, in order to provide answers and peace of mind to the grieving families.

One retired RCMP officer, Fred Maile, an investigator in the Clifford Olson serial murder case, told The Vancouver Sun last December that he is convinced a serial killer is preying on young women along the highway, and he believes a serial killer was involved in at least three and possibly four cases.

The eight cases that the RCMP say are actively being investigated are those of Delphine Nikal, 15; Ramona Wilson, 15; Roxanne Thiara, 15; Leah Alisha Germaine, 15; Lana Derrick, 19; Nicole Hoar, 25; Tamara Chipman, 22; Aielah Katherina Saric, 14.

Gary Rosenfeldt, the father of one of Olson's victims, has been pushing for 25 years for a national police unit that would investigate possible cases of serial murders and assist local police.

He said the U.S. has such a task force -- a Federal Bureau of Investigation specialty team -- that is aware of how serial killers operate and provides support to investigations such as Seattle's Green River case.

"It has been almost 25 years since we talked about it and here we are still promoting it," Rosenfeldt said Tuesday.

Jagrup Brar, MLA for Surrey-Panorama Ridge and the NDP's public safety critic, said he has asked the solicitor-general to take a closer look at the Highway 16 cases to see if something more can be done.

"He needs to act quickly to look into the situation -- either to confirm or eliminate the possibility of a serial killer," he said. "This is a serious public safety issue."

Jonah Cunningham of Vancouver, whose sister Leah Germaine was a Highway 16 murder victim in 1994, said he finds it "alarming" and "very disturbing" that the murders continue. The body of the latest victim, Aielah Katherina Saric, 14, was found earlier this month. "I believe it's time for a more focused investigation," he said. "A task force would be good."

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=fbffb3e1-37de-4043-b668-0b9f5f0cefec

Edited for length and copyright.
 
the fifth annual Memorial for Canada's Missing/Murdered Native women
will be held on Sunday March 12th at 1 pm
at
120 Cornwall Street ( Coop Centre)
Toronto, ON
A Feast will follow.
Please bring womens and girls shoes to this Memorial. They will be returned to
you at the end of the event.
Anyone wishing to participate in this years Memorial or those requiring further
information is asked to contact waabzy@...
Miigwetch!
 

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