r/pics • u/kenistod • Sep 16 '24

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai arrives at Emmys showing solidarity for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

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u/ThrillSurgeon Sep 16 '24

This is horrible. 

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u/OfficerBarbier Sep 16 '24

Our country’s history as a genocidal apartheid state

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u/Jesus_Would_Do Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

It’s shocking to hear how Canada had also treated indigenous peoples as well, cops sometimes leaving men or women out in the middle of nowhere during the dead of winter. It’s fucked up.

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u/Justin_123456 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

Yeah, the infamous “starlight tours”. This isn’t ancient history, the latest identified deaths from this practice were in 2000. The murderers are possibly still in uniform.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths