‘I thought I was going to die there’ Darryl Kakekayash talks about the night he was attacked

Hundreds of people attended a prayer walk in Thunder Bay that was organized by the community of North Caribou Lake including Darryl Kakekayash who was attacked in Thunder Bay in 2008.

Willow Fiddler
APTN National News

Hundreds of people attended a prayer walk in Thunder Bay that was organized by the community of North Caribou Lake.

That’s the community where Tammy Keeash was from.

The 17-year old’s body was discovered by a dried up floodway May 7.

It’s also the community where Darryl Kakekayash lives.

In 2008 he was attacked in Thunder Bay by men who beat him and threw him in the river.

It was ten years before he set foot in the city again.

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8 thoughts on “‘I thought I was going to die there’ Darryl Kakekayash talks about the night he was attacked

  1. Tracy Arvelin says:

    The police and the powers that be will keep ignoring this problem there IS SOMETHING WRONG HAPPENING HERE!!! if we don’t stand together and continue to ask questions nothing will be done.

  2. I wonder if he would recognize them today and say who did that to him and maybe others will come forward and point them out too….uggh the damn RCMP too, I hope their chief goes to jail!!!!!!!!

  3. This has been an ongoing issue in Thunder Bay, as a student in the mid 80’s I had some terrifying experiences

  4. Thunder Bay should be stripped of having their own police force if the City is using them as their own Gang force against their Genocide activities on First Nation people.

    1. The mayor should be removed along with the police force. It’s obvious their behind it and allowing it to happen. I would quest it’s a dirty cops doing.

    2. Just one question, what if it turns out to be a Native person or group killing these kids? Because statistically, in countries around the world you are many more times likely to be murdered by the ethnic group you belong to.

      And should it be murder, how about capital punishment for the sick person no matter the race?

      Do these kids end up by the river because the solitude of the river reminds them of home?

      These problems are happening across many reserves as well, just less publicized, are these also due to racism?

      Do we get Italian cops and Fin cops, because there are thousands of them? The law should treat everyone equally if we start making racial exceptions for one we must do for all.

      Segregation doesn’t work, as proven throughout modern society, the government is slow to learn, but if you think they are the only ones getting the shaft, wake up. They manage to screw everyone regardless off race.
      Genocide?Really.

      The easiest way to stay out of jail. Stop breaking the law. Easiest way create a racist, act like the stereotype.

      My own children are learning to be racist against Native people, and they are being taught by Native people. No matter how much I teach them about the beauty of the people, it is erased in seconds by the actions of some drunken idiot, who just happens to be “Indian”.
      My mother is proud of her Native heritage, so is my father.
      I struggle with it, because I define me not my bloodline. If I falter it will be my misstep not because someone oppressed my ancestors, and when I rise it will be because I used the opportunity my forebearers won for me.

      RISE.

  5. How does someone drown in a dried up flood way? Something is very wrong with this picture!

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