Justice for Canada’s indigenous women Al Jazeera

August 15, 2016

The remedy cannot simply be an apology or an official acknowledgement that these women have been wronged.

Each number has a name, a family, a life story and, tragically, an unresolved ending.

One of those stories belongs to Danita Faith BigEagle (PDF). The youngest of six children, Danita was born in Arcola, a tiny town known as the “city of angels” that sits in the southeast corner of the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan.

Like her ancestors, Danita is part of the Ocean Man First Nation, just one among the countless indigenous communities that was a fixture on the prairie long before European settlers arrived and remains an essential part of the Canadian mosaic.

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