CBC News - Canada - List of missing or slain native women grows
The report found that aboriginal females are more likely to be killed by a stranger than non-aboriginal.
It says many victims are targeted simply because they are aboriginal and their attackers assume they will not fight back or be missed.
"The stories shared by families, communities and friends also tell us that many missing and murdered women and girls were 'vulnerable' only insofar as they were aboriginal and they were women," the report says.
"The over-representation of aboriginal women in Canada as victims of violence must be understood in the context of a colonial strategy that sought to dehumanize aboriginal women."
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/04/21/missing-women-native.html#ixzz0lq4Uf7eZ
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