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Speaking of messages that can arrive from #LightYears away: (lest anyone forget about the missing and murdered indigenous) ...
And yet, strong women still get the message out: "Hello, world! It's never too soon to #oust corruption."
What if #Canada had been able to democratize without oppression and unnecessary but ultimately destructive foreign intervention?
"You can disagree all you want; that doesn't make her wrong."
"Among other policies, the state denied natives voting rights until 1960, unless they agreed to forgo indigenous status. Canada also forced 150,000 aboriginal children into “residential schools” — state-funded boarding institutions where assimilation into white culture was mandatory. Students were beaten if they spoke in their native tongues, and an unknown number of girls was sterilized. The last of the 130 schools didn’t close until 1996.
Today, Canada’s 1.4 million indigenous people suffer economically — 36 percent of indigenous women live in poverty, for instance, versus 17 percent of their non-indigenous counterparts. One-third of indigenous people between the ages of 25 and 54 have less than a high school education. Substance abuse is a rampant concern; in a 2011 national survey of First Nation adults living on reserves and in northern communities, 83 percent cited it as the biggest threat to aboriginal health. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, president of the non-profit Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), says she once heard domestic abuse in aboriginal households called as normal as keeping “ketchup in the fridge.”"
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a27560457/native-american-women-missing