I saw many girls walking into town on Friday evenings from the reservation we passed to get to the cottage. I was always frightened at their vulnerability. Do you know women who go to the bathroom together. It's because we are all vulnerable.
I hate to say it but predators are often opportunists. Women walking to their car alone..how many have their keyes in their hands like a weapon. Bernardo etc.
Hitchhiking from the reservation makes girls vulnerable. I'd look at transportation systems asap. I bet predators aren't racist I bet they are opportunists.
It's no surprise that indigenous women go missing. A life on the street working as a prostitute is significantly better than the isolation, abuse and ravages of alcohol on the reserve. Of course when bad things happen, as they invariably will, given the circumstances, the war drums of the propaganda warriors beat loudly signaling that it is someone else's fault as the elephant in the room knowingly gloats on.
"... I hope that one day, the irrationally fearful indigenous women, like I once was, can find solace in a more realistic analysis of the popularly misconstrued facts."
Karli Lewis: Thank you for this. It is women like you who can help indigenous women. Your analysis is what the MMIWG commission failed miserably in doing. If anything, their work made indigenous women even more vulnerable because it successfully disguised the brutality of many of those lives by hiding it behind claims of racism.
It would be wrong to suggest the plight of indigenous women has nothing to do with racism. For example, one stat in Karli's essay indicates that indigenous women account for 10% of the total population of missing women in Canada. However, it is highly unlikely that indigenous women make up 10% of the population of women in Canada. Another reported stat in the essay is, when adjusted for key socioeconomic factors (trust in neighbours, "discrimination", health, mental health, a history of child abuse, and homelessness), Indigenous women are not at higher risk of victimization. So it would seem, taking these ideas at face value, Indigenous women are at higher risk of socioeconomic factors that put them at risk of victimization. (Not rocket science.)
What drives these negative socioeconomic outcomes? Isolation, poverty, lack of educational opportunities, lack of positive role models, parental addiction and related poor outcomes for children, children's experience of violence in the home and in their communities, among other just as important factors including racism and reverse-racism.
It would be naive and probably racist on the face of it, to deny racism on the part of the larger community is not part of the reasons such conditions exist in the lives of Indigenous women and children. However, the failure of the MMIWG to recognize and call out the role of domestic violence in the victimization of Indigenous women and children is grievous. Their own racist agenda of pretending Indigenous women more at risk because they are prey of non-Indigenous people is abhorrent because they had a golden opportunity to help Indigenous women and children by admitting the problem of domestic violence. They preferred to promote their own racist agenda, thereby increasing the vulnerability of those women and children by further isolating them from wider society through fear.
Karli's calling this out is exactly the kind of leadership needed to improve the lives of Indigenous women and children. The MMIWG report and related campaign simply works on behalf of the abusers and predators to make Indigenous women and girls more vulnerable by disguising who they are most often victimized by and failing to acknowledge why others become vulnerable to predators.
I never worked in Morality but a good friend of mine did who arrested many prostitutes ranging from low class to young high class whores who make thousands $ per hour in Toronto but in other criminal cases I did come by them quite often. One case often reminds me of how normal they all are in one sense a reformed whore at age 17 who was raped by her ex boyfriend that I had the pleasure of convicting in court in the 1970,s.
Today we read in the news daily about these disgusting perverts who get early release from prison and even bail and low sentences for violent sexual crimes and believe me when I say that there is no such thing as a non violent sexual crime. Our children our wives our sisters are apparently fair game for these bastards and we all should face the reality of why this is, the simple but true answer is our political master class who quite rightly deserve to be castrated for their betrayal towards all female victims today regardless of their pigment or ethnicity as they are the lawmakers.
Sorry Kemosabe but a life on the street for any prostitute is not better but unless you actually see it for yourself you could not possibly understand that.
Thank you for covering this. I remember hearing about a proposed alert program specifically for missing Indigenous women maybe last year. How exactly would that work? Would they only accept people who could be confirmed as Indigenous? This was around the time the news was also obsessed with pretendians. And of course obviously, doesn’t everyone deserve to be found? I could see the utility of having alerts go out through First Nations networks. It would be logical for those alerts to be focused on FN women. But to have a ton of funding poured into a discriminatory endeavour because white women are supposedly getting all the attention would be ridiculous. Any update on that program?
Former Prime Minister Harper was reluctant to appoint the MMIWG Inquiry. As I recall, he was concerned that the mandate of the Inquiry was not clear, that proponents of the Inquiry had a differing assortment of goals, none of which was entirely clear. What exactly was the Inquiry going to investigate, who was going to testify and what was the purpose of their testimony, what were they hoping to establish with the testimony and other evidence which might be tendered, and what would be the nature of any recommendations that would emerge from the Inquiry. The Inquiry was finally called and began with no clear questions to be addressed other than to figure out why so many Indigeneous went missing or were murdered. PM Harper's concerns seemed to be well founded as the Inquiry progressed, shuffling back and forth trying to establish a clear focus. Many numbers and stats were quoted by activists and concerned parties, but little if any real analysis of the data was ever done. Most Indigeneous women and girls are killed by Indigeneous men (and some women), but this finding wasn't highlighted or investigated further. Many Indigeneous women and girls went missing after they had left their Reserves, but why were they leaving their Reserves in droves ? Escaping violence on the Reserve ? Maybe. Again, not well investigated or analyzed. Many who testified gave scathing criticism of the RCMP , Provincial or local police service responses or investigations into the missing person reports, without police officials being able to respond to the criticism or challenge the accuracy of the testimony. Most testimony amounted to, "we reported our mother/sister/daughter missing to the police but they didn't do anything". There was very little push-back regarding any of this evidence, or what the families did to help with efforts to locate missing women and girls. Some families were very diligent and unrelenting in their searches. Others --- apparently not so much, when the missing person reports were not filed for months or years after their disappearances. The findings of the Inquiry did not really cast much light on why so many Indigeneous women and girls go missing or are victims of violence. Other than to say that they are more vulnerable than non-Indigeneous women and girls, and that there is apparently a conspiracy of genocide against MMIWG. Aspertions are cast towards non-Indigeneous men and indifferent police agencies, without any firm supporting evidence other than innuendo and anecdotal evidence from those who were carefully chosen to testify. Perhaps the most productive result to emerge from the Inquiry is that all police agencies have reviewed and revised their policies regarding their approach and investigations into reports of Missing Persons.Unfortunately, the MMIWG Inquiry didn't really answer many other questions, or further the public's understanding of why so many Indigeneous women and girls are victims of violence and go missing at dispropotionally high rates. We don't really know much more about the "why" than we did before the Inquiry.
Quick look up of indigenous share of total female population is 4-5%. This would mean they're twice as likely to go missing. I suppose this is the reason for the emphasis on them?
Most men convicted of violent crime of all sorts against any sex are "known" to the police. The woke injustice system treats criminals better than the victims.
President Bukele said it best when Tucker asked him why he thought Western nations were so violent?
I saw many girls walking into town on Friday evenings from the reservation we passed to get to the cottage. I was always frightened at their vulnerability. Do you know women who go to the bathroom together. It's because we are all vulnerable.
I hate to say it but predators are often opportunists. Women walking to their car alone..how many have their keyes in their hands like a weapon. Bernardo etc.
Hitchhiking from the reservation makes girls vulnerable. I'd look at transportation systems asap. I bet predators aren't racist I bet they are opportunists.
Dividing us by race really is ugly.
“Indigenous women make up 10% of the women currently missing in Canada. That means that 90% of women missing are non-indigenous.”
Where are the red dresses in trees for them?
Where are the red dresses on school walls for them?
or in glass cases at the RBC. I turned around and walked out
It's no surprise that indigenous women go missing. A life on the street working as a prostitute is significantly better than the isolation, abuse and ravages of alcohol on the reserve. Of course when bad things happen, as they invariably will, given the circumstances, the war drums of the propaganda warriors beat loudly signaling that it is someone else's fault as the elephant in the room knowingly gloats on.
"... I hope that one day, the irrationally fearful indigenous women, like I once was, can find solace in a more realistic analysis of the popularly misconstrued facts."
Karli Lewis: Thank you for this. It is women like you who can help indigenous women. Your analysis is what the MMIWG commission failed miserably in doing. If anything, their work made indigenous women even more vulnerable because it successfully disguised the brutality of many of those lives by hiding it behind claims of racism.
It would be wrong to suggest the plight of indigenous women has nothing to do with racism. For example, one stat in Karli's essay indicates that indigenous women account for 10% of the total population of missing women in Canada. However, it is highly unlikely that indigenous women make up 10% of the population of women in Canada. Another reported stat in the essay is, when adjusted for key socioeconomic factors (trust in neighbours, "discrimination", health, mental health, a history of child abuse, and homelessness), Indigenous women are not at higher risk of victimization. So it would seem, taking these ideas at face value, Indigenous women are at higher risk of socioeconomic factors that put them at risk of victimization. (Not rocket science.)
What drives these negative socioeconomic outcomes? Isolation, poverty, lack of educational opportunities, lack of positive role models, parental addiction and related poor outcomes for children, children's experience of violence in the home and in their communities, among other just as important factors including racism and reverse-racism.
It would be naive and probably racist on the face of it, to deny racism on the part of the larger community is not part of the reasons such conditions exist in the lives of Indigenous women and children. However, the failure of the MMIWG to recognize and call out the role of domestic violence in the victimization of Indigenous women and children is grievous. Their own racist agenda of pretending Indigenous women more at risk because they are prey of non-Indigenous people is abhorrent because they had a golden opportunity to help Indigenous women and children by admitting the problem of domestic violence. They preferred to promote their own racist agenda, thereby increasing the vulnerability of those women and children by further isolating them from wider society through fear.
Karli's calling this out is exactly the kind of leadership needed to improve the lives of Indigenous women and children. The MMIWG report and related campaign simply works on behalf of the abusers and predators to make Indigenous women and girls more vulnerable by disguising who they are most often victimized by and failing to acknowledge why others become vulnerable to predators.
I never worked in Morality but a good friend of mine did who arrested many prostitutes ranging from low class to young high class whores who make thousands $ per hour in Toronto but in other criminal cases I did come by them quite often. One case often reminds me of how normal they all are in one sense a reformed whore at age 17 who was raped by her ex boyfriend that I had the pleasure of convicting in court in the 1970,s.
Today we read in the news daily about these disgusting perverts who get early release from prison and even bail and low sentences for violent sexual crimes and believe me when I say that there is no such thing as a non violent sexual crime. Our children our wives our sisters are apparently fair game for these bastards and we all should face the reality of why this is, the simple but true answer is our political master class who quite rightly deserve to be castrated for their betrayal towards all female victims today regardless of their pigment or ethnicity as they are the lawmakers.
Sorry Kemosabe but a life on the street for any prostitute is not better but unless you actually see it for yourself you could not possibly understand that.
Thank you for covering this. I remember hearing about a proposed alert program specifically for missing Indigenous women maybe last year. How exactly would that work? Would they only accept people who could be confirmed as Indigenous? This was around the time the news was also obsessed with pretendians. And of course obviously, doesn’t everyone deserve to be found? I could see the utility of having alerts go out through First Nations networks. It would be logical for those alerts to be focused on FN women. But to have a ton of funding poured into a discriminatory endeavour because white women are supposedly getting all the attention would be ridiculous. Any update on that program?
Former Prime Minister Harper was reluctant to appoint the MMIWG Inquiry. As I recall, he was concerned that the mandate of the Inquiry was not clear, that proponents of the Inquiry had a differing assortment of goals, none of which was entirely clear. What exactly was the Inquiry going to investigate, who was going to testify and what was the purpose of their testimony, what were they hoping to establish with the testimony and other evidence which might be tendered, and what would be the nature of any recommendations that would emerge from the Inquiry. The Inquiry was finally called and began with no clear questions to be addressed other than to figure out why so many Indigeneous went missing or were murdered. PM Harper's concerns seemed to be well founded as the Inquiry progressed, shuffling back and forth trying to establish a clear focus. Many numbers and stats were quoted by activists and concerned parties, but little if any real analysis of the data was ever done. Most Indigeneous women and girls are killed by Indigeneous men (and some women), but this finding wasn't highlighted or investigated further. Many Indigeneous women and girls went missing after they had left their Reserves, but why were they leaving their Reserves in droves ? Escaping violence on the Reserve ? Maybe. Again, not well investigated or analyzed. Many who testified gave scathing criticism of the RCMP , Provincial or local police service responses or investigations into the missing person reports, without police officials being able to respond to the criticism or challenge the accuracy of the testimony. Most testimony amounted to, "we reported our mother/sister/daughter missing to the police but they didn't do anything". There was very little push-back regarding any of this evidence, or what the families did to help with efforts to locate missing women and girls. Some families were very diligent and unrelenting in their searches. Others --- apparently not so much, when the missing person reports were not filed for months or years after their disappearances. The findings of the Inquiry did not really cast much light on why so many Indigeneous women and girls go missing or are victims of violence. Other than to say that they are more vulnerable than non-Indigeneous women and girls, and that there is apparently a conspiracy of genocide against MMIWG. Aspertions are cast towards non-Indigeneous men and indifferent police agencies, without any firm supporting evidence other than innuendo and anecdotal evidence from those who were carefully chosen to testify. Perhaps the most productive result to emerge from the Inquiry is that all police agencies have reviewed and revised their policies regarding their approach and investigations into reports of Missing Persons.Unfortunately, the MMIWG Inquiry didn't really answer many other questions, or further the public's understanding of why so many Indigeneous women and girls are victims of violence and go missing at dispropotionally high rates. We don't really know much more about the "why" than we did before the Inquiry.
Quick look up of indigenous share of total female population is 4-5%. This would mean they're twice as likely to go missing. I suppose this is the reason for the emphasis on them?
Children need adult parents not big children. Here are my thoughts on the matter:
https://soberchristiangentlemanpodcast.substack.com/p/s2-ep-16-parents-we-need-to-have-025
Most men convicted of violent crime of all sorts against any sex are "known" to the police. The woke injustice system treats criminals better than the victims.
President Bukele said it best when Tucker asked him why he thought Western nations were so violent?
"Because they want it that way".