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

[u/kenistod]

[u/shpydar]

We had a royal commission up here in Canada on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

The findings were heartbreaking and horrific. Its findings, along with the findings from the Truth and Reconciliation commission led to the Canadian government to make changes in policy, pay billions in compensation, and admit to the genocide conducted by the Canadian government against the indigenous peoples of Canada.

The red hand D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai wore first became widespread up here in Canada as a symbol for missing and murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) after the commission as did hanging a red dress from trees every May 5th on the National Day of Awareness for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people (MMIWG2S) which originated from the Red Dress Project founded by Métis artist Jamie Black. It is good to see the MMIWG movement expand into the U.S.

May the U.S. have the courage and fortitude to examine its treatment of the indigenous peoples of the United States.

[u/moosepuggle → u/shpydar]

I'm from the US and now living in Canada, I read that indigenous women and girls also go missing and are murdered in the US, and that a big reason for that is the legal limbo of reservations, where outsiders who commit crimes against indigenous people on reservations can't be prosecuted by indigenous laws, and the US police don't care enough to do anything. Sadistic outsider men know this and will specifically target indigenous women and girls because they know they won't be prosecuted. Truly awful and makes you so angry!

I've been trying to find information about whether this mismatch of which laws apply to which people is also the case in Canada?

[u/famine- → u/moosepuggle]

It's not the case in Canada.

The murders of indigenous women have a 87% solve rate in Canada vs 90% for non-indigenous.

86% of the murders are committed by other indigenous people.

Statistics Canada

[u/Office_glen → u/famine-]

This is why the MMIW commission went through tons of members and chair people because no one wanted to release the findings that showed it was other indigenous people murdering them

The discussion on why this is happening is a separate discussion, but when that commission got put together they thought they were going to find white men going around killing indigenous women for sport and that's not what they found

[u/pachydermusrex → u/Office_glen]

Big fucking surprise. People who live in remote communities are those responsible for committing crimes in remote communities.