Missing Of Aboriginal Women

Aboriginal people are the first human beings to claim this land that we all call Canada. They are the ones that first made this land their home, and today we have taken that right from them. Aboriginal communities by far have the worst housing, less education and lower health status. This is not due to the mistakes they might have made, it is due to the mistakes that the media, the general public, and the mistakes from the government of Canada. As of April 1st 2015, there are 1750 aboriginal females missing, and these are just the ones that were reported. The government of Canada continue to ignore the issues that arise for the aboriginal people, they continue to not make them the priority, the people who gave up their homes so that all of …show more content…
In order to solve any issue, it is important to understand the reason behind the problem so that it can be removed from the root. The article gives us an inside look of many missing/murdered aboriginal women, to show us that every women has her own stories and life, but there are similarities in all of their stories. The similarities in all of these cases are the abuse, trauma, child welfare, addictions and poverty that all these women have to go through. It also brings to our attention that missing/murdered aboriginal women are the only victims, 34% of women in prisoners in Canada are aboriginal women. Today the number of indigenous children in care are more than crisis of residential schools. They explain to us that 70% of the murders of aboriginal women are done by aboriginal men from their own communities. I have chosen to talk about this article because, this article talks about the root of problem and it is important to understand why this happened in order to prevent it from happing in the future. The past cannot be changed, but these families need support from their country, from their communities in order to move forward and prevent these problems from happening …show more content…
He explains that the speech made by Justin Trudeau “renewed nation-to-nation relationship with Indigenous Peoples that respects rights and honours treaties,” has brought many aboriginal people with feelings of hope, and of course skepticism. As we all know that not everything politicians promise has come true. He has also promised to call inquiry into the cases of all missing/murdered indigenous women, to spend $2.6 billion in order to provide them with proper education and to end all boil-water advisories in First Nations. Of courses these are just words, until they have been put into action. I have chosen this article because its important to know what our new government will be doing about such a major issue. I believe that there are many problems that are faced by the First Nations and to think that a politician has acknowledged them and has said that he promises to do improve the conditions is a step forward into finding a solution to these problems. However only time will tell if Justin Trudeau will hold true to his