Just saw info on the same report mikkismom -
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...y-to-suffer-violent-death-rcmp-says-1.2644827
The stats are -
Key findings in the report:
Of the 1,181 investigations, 1,017 are aboriginal female homicide victims between 1980 and 2012 and 164 women are considered missing.
Currently, there are 225 unsolved cases: 120 are homicides, 105 are missing or foul play suspected.
Aboriginal women make up 16 per cent of all murdered women on record, five per cent of all murders on record and 11.3 per cent of all missing women on record.​
Aboriginal women are most likely to be murdered by an acquaintance (30 per cent), spouse (29 per cent), or family member (24 per cent).
More than 90 per cent of indigenous female murder victims knew their killer, RCMP said.
The high murder rate of aboriginal women in Canada comes down to them being murdered by their own people, for the most part. That is what people needed to know. Thank-you to RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson and his team that worked on this report.
Imo, isolation is their biggest problem - same as women in other cultures that are abused and ultimately murdered by family. For many reasons, the rate is higher among aboriginal people in Canada.
The picture is not pretty but it's now there for all to see - I have confidence that the RCMP had no motive to skew any of the facts they reported. Imo, this is backed up by the aboriginal people not wanting to share the info they claim to have.
There are still Cody Legebokoff types out there though - where are they operating Commissioner Paulson?
BBM
Thank you for putting that in black and white! I think that most people have always known this. It was clearly stated in the press release that aboriginal women are usually murdered by spouse, family member, or acquaintance. It was also emphasized that many are in the sex trade industry, which makes solving the disappearance/murder more difficult.
Another point to remember is that anyone with 1/16th aboriginal blood is considered metis/aboriginal, which skews the results for me. For example, that would mean that if my great great grandparent was aboriginal, I would be metis. Most of us don't think about our ancestry in terms of the nationality of our great great grandparents and I suspect that if we did, people would think we were a bit nutty.
Cody Legebokoff's victims were prostitutes and a young blind girl, so I'm not sure how he fits into this picture.