The genocide against Indigenous women is not a thing of the past. It is not simply a blight on our history, a tragedy of the Indian Residential School era. Indigenous women are still being trafficked, stolen — their disappearances unnoticed by society. They are murdered at far greater rates than non-Indigenous women, incarcerated at far, far higher rates. Indigenous people continue to be subject to the Indian Act and its discriminatory transmission of Indian status and membership in First Nations.

Source: thestar May 31, 2019 23:06 UTC