As highlight returns to decades-long violence against native women and girls,calls for national inquiry have been rebuffed but groups refuse to give upHanging on the walls of Kattie Lee Fontaine’s living room are two striking portraits of her cousin Tina, who was just 15 when she disappeared from the streets of Winnipeg, or Manitoba,in August 2014.
Tina and her four cousins, Kattie Lee, and Rose,Jolene and Angel grew up together on the Sagkeeng First Nation, an indigenous reserve east of Lake Winnipeg with a population of 3000 – and six unsolved cases of lost or murdered First Nations women. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com