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Canada

shenmue

(38,538 posts) Thu Apr 9, 2015, 03:40 PM Apr 2015

Among the missing: First Nations women

Story here

From the article:

Manitoba's Sagkeeng First Nation has the highest number of cases of unsolved missing or murdered indigenous women in Canada, according to a CBC analysis of outstanding cases.

The community of 3,000 people, about 120 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, has six cases of slain women. Manitoba has 46 unsolved cases overall.