Throughout the three days of hearings at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, one common threat was the violence learned at residential schools, carried on into the lives of survivors.
Three days of hearings of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is wrapping up Thursday in Whitehorse.
It was day two of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. And again, families spoke of the painful experience of losing a loved one.
After decades of lobbying for a National Inquiry into the disproportional number of Indigenous women who are murdered or go missing, the first public hearing was held Tuesday in Whitehorse.
The long-awaited start to the murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls national inquiry began with the story of Mary Johns who was murdered by a serial killer and buried in a potter’s field years before the family ever discovered her fate.
APTN National News will carry the hearings LIVE throughout the three days of hearings.
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is set to start Tuesday in Whitehorse. Here’s a preview.
A Yukon mother who lost her daughter 10 years ago now joins her on the list of the murdered and missing Indigenous women as Whitehorse RCMP investigate a double homicide of two First Nation women.
