Violence against Indigenous women is 'a crisis.' Deb Haaland's new Missing & Murdered Unit could help, advocates say. [thelily.com]
By Cecilia Nowell, The Lily, April 20, 2021 Growing up in Canada, Agnes Woodward, who’s Plains Cree and originally from Kawacatoose First Nation, always knew that her family cared deeply about missing and murdered Indigenous women. In the 1990s, she watched as her aunt Mona and a few others began trying to draw attention to the lacking police response when Indigenous women went missing: They would hold up images of missing friends on street corners. In 1992, they organized the first march in...