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In 2023, Statistics Canada released a report showing that Indigenous women and girls were 6 times more likely to be murdered than other groups of people in Canada.

Indigenous women and girls make up only 2% and 3% of the Canadian population, yet they represent 5% and 7% of homicide victims.
(between 2009 and 2021)

They are 400% (or four times) more likely than other Canadians to go missing.

And yet the RCMP does not have clear data for the exact number of women and girls and two spirit people who have been either murdered or disappeared, because it is underreported.

After all, would you go for help to the same system that inflicted harm on your community? Joyce Echaquan is the answer to that question.

Canada - as well as many other countries that have indigenous populations - has work to do to repair the ignorance and harms that our governments and religious institutions have done to these human beings whose land we live on.

You don’t need to feel guilty, but we do need to start noticing the gap between what we have been taught to believe about these communities - and what they believe about themselves.

Notice your reaction to these statistics.

Listen to indigenous voices, learn from them and trust them to know what is right for themselves.

🧡Humility and openness in our own hearts is the first step to healing theirs.

The (in addition to Canadian and Manitoba‐led inquiries) have consistently noted that the deaths, and the failure to seek justice for these victims, are a clear violation of international and domestic law and demonstrate the deadly intersections of racism, colonization, misogyny and homophobia.

See .ca for resources and support, or call the national support line at 1–844-413‑6649 (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week).

Source: .ca

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