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Article: Society needs to recognize worth of Aboriginal women.(rants and raves)
- Article from:
- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Five hundred. That's the estimated number of Aboriginal women who have gone missing or have been murdered in Canada over the past two decades. Five hundred women--mothers, daughters, sisters--who have died violent deaths, or simply disappeared without a trace, leaving their families and friends to wonder what fate has befallen them.
The fate of at least a few of those women is no longer a mystery, thanks to the RCMP investigation that found traces of their DNA on the Port Coquitlam farm owned by Robert Pickton.
On Dec. 9, Pickton was found guilty of murdering six women and is expected to be tried for the murder of 20 more. But while the Pickton trial and ...