2. 1997 North American regional consultative
forum on trafficking in women
• Little mention of Indigenous women in
Canada
• Indigenous issues in Canada linked to
international issues related to migration
• Call for Indigenous women to be included in
shaping services for victims of violence
• More information was needed
4. Key factors in sexual exploitation identified by
communities:
• Transportation
• Safe housing
• Intergenerational abuse
• Silence and shame related to abuse
• Poverty
• Residential school trauma
• Racism
• Slow or inadequate legal response
5. Sisters in Spirit Research
By trying to fit cases of missing and murdered Aboriginal
women into the trafficking box, we serve only to diminish or
hide what we know to be true about their experiences.
--Native Women’s Association of Canada, 2010
6. "It is a sociological
issue — one that
arises from, among
other things, a high-
risk lifestyle," said
B.C. Supreme Court
Justice Glen Parrett.
7. "She came to my house, she
met my son, that's all that
happened," Fontaine said,
adding she only spent an hour
with Tina, and that her cousin
mostly hung out with her
aunts in another suite.
"I had my kids. I was four
years sober. I was doing really
really good for myself," she
said.
But she said all that changed
when she heard Tina had
been killed and her body
dumped in the river.
