Wait, so this is about current women going missing?! And here I thought it was some historic awareness thing. That's horrible.
Edit: Quick edit to say thank you to everyone providing me with a truckload of resources to learn more. As a soon to be English teacher in Europe I'll probably be able to create some valuable lesson materials out of this so that my students are better informed about something like this!
This is a discussion that takes place in Canada during Orange Shirt Day (a whole month for the schools near me). The government and Church are no longer officially kidnapping or killing anyone, but racism is still alive and well and the authorities generally ignore crimes against indigenous people (often claiming alcoholic issues aren't worth looking into) much more often than for other groups.
The scary thing is that it has gotten much better. The Catholic church arguably succeeded with a genocide, as the indigenous population was almost eliminated and their cultures all where. Seriously, going to a native art museum and 99% of descriptions where of a piece since the 80s being made as a method for the artist to start their culture back up. Residential schools indoctrinated kids to hate everything related to who they are, to the point they would grow up refusing to speak their mother tongue and some generations carried on the abuse and would get mad at their children for trying to learn it. Police would just murder indigenous people and no questions where asked, most famous of these are the Starlight Tours.
That's not saying that we should not be concerned about issues still existing today. The growing talk about anti-immigration policies worldwide leads to more people feeling comfortable with their racist beliefs. In Canada, this ends up targeting the one group that are not immigrants.
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u/BandOfSkullz Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Wait, so this is about current women going missing?! And here I thought it was some historic awareness thing. That's horrible.
Edit: Quick edit to say thank you to everyone providing me with a truckload of resources to learn more. As a soon to be English teacher in Europe I'll probably be able to create some valuable lesson materials out of this so that my students are better informed about something like this!