Missing

MISSING Introduction The indigenous woman stares at her long red dress hanging from a telephone pole, struggles to free herself, and once freed, with her dress dangling, reduced to shreds and her underwear exposed, in silence, she reads the names of the missing women, who she had written on her arm.

He ends by shouting the names one by one. This is the performance of an indigenous Canadian artist, who recounts, through this work, the commemoration of the lives of missing and murdered indigenous women, who disappeared from the streets of Vancouver in Canada. This happened during the Canadian winter of 2002 for those passing through the center east of the city. This may come as a surprise to distracted observers, but the reality is that in Canada, often ranked high on the list of global quality of life indices, indigenous women suffer high rates of violence. In 2014, the Canadian Police confirmed that 1017 indigenous women had been murdered and that 164 had disappeared since 1980, despite indigenous women making up 4.3% of the country’s female population. The Street of Tears, as the Native Americans call it, is infamous for women who disappear in its path. According to the Amerindians, Native Americans, the disappearances and killings, which began in 1980 and never ended, would be at least four thousand, an impressive number that does not stop. It is a massacre that for decades has been consumed in silence and indifference.

Only in 2019, following pressure from many associations and complaints from native groups, was a report published on how many mysterious disappearances and murders occurred on Native American women. The country in which these tragedies are predominantly occurring, according to a survey, is Canada. Between 1980 and 2012,1181 victims were recorded.

Between 1980 and 2012, there were 1181 registered victims. If this number

already seems extremely shocking, think about the total number of all the Native American women who disappeared and/or were killed. The exact number of victims will never be known, also because many families do not report the disappearance of these women, for fear of repercussions and further revenge and their murderers are: strangers, acquaintances or their husbands. Another piece that is added to this monstrous mosaic are the unsolved cases and many families, to whom a mother, a sister, a daughter has been taken, ask for the reopening of these cases to ensure that justice is done. Why all this reluctance to get to the bottom of this? It is a question that arises spontaneously, but above all it arouses a lot of anger, as if there were serial murders A and B. Hasty and superficial investigations, racist prejudices, are some of the elements found in the investigation, The Commission has also discovered that the violence against these women is due to the inaction of the State, but above all to the associated ideologies that are based on an alleged superiority.

TESTIMONIES It was 2014, Tina was a 15-year-old girl. She was found dead wrapped in a sack, in the icy waters of the Red River, the Red River that crosses the Canadian province of Manitoba, one of the poorest and most violent areas

of the country. When her body was fished out, Tina had been missing for a week. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition, which made identification difficult. It took four whole hours to understand that the body was that of a young woman and Tina was identified thanks to a tattoo on her back: two angel wings. His killer, a 53-year-old man, was charged with second-degree murder. He was then tried and found not guilty in 2018. She managed to return to shore, was raped and assaulted again until she blacked out, this led her attackers to make him believe that she was dead and so they left.

The case of Rinelle, a sixteen-year-old student, whose testimony leaped to the honours of the news, breaking down that wall of indifference and silence, against these disappearances and killings. Rinelle was fished naked and almost dying between the Assiniboine and Red River rivers. Before being thrown into the river, Rinelle had been approached in an isolated place by two white supremacists and raped repeatedly. Before being thrown into the river, Rinelle had been approached in an isolated place by two white supremacists and raped repeatedly. Rinelle was saved from the very cold temperature of the river, which had greatly slowed down his metabolism and once recovered, he managed to return home and recounted the hell he had experienced.

Christine, 22, from Alberta, Canada, was last seen on October 13, 2016. She was walking north. Last May, his remains were found in Saddle Lake, not far from the Cree Reservation where he lived.

Delaine, a teenager from the Ojibway tribe in northwestern Ontario, left home for the last time on February 28, 2016. On March 22, his body was recovered in a nearby lake. His mother, Anita, still does not believe the police report that claims that her daughter was trapped by an ice sheet that broke under her feet. "How did she get there? What was she doing there alone? The police say they don’t know. I know they only started looking for her three days after she disappeared," she says disconsolately.

Only in May 2021, in South Dakota, were reported the disappearances of 13 indigenous girls and adolescents, of which nothing has been known anymore.

British Columbia is famous for serial killers and criminals who often target Aboriginal women. In 2007, a pig farmer was convicted of killing six women, although the DNA or remains of 33 women were discovered on his land.

Many of them were native.

One of the youngest serial killers in Canada, he was 24 years old when he was convicted in 2014 for killing four women near the highway of tears, so named because a few miles from a country called Prince George, It plunges into dense forests veined with forest roads, lacks lighting, so if you’re looking for someone it’s pretty hard to find.

A former judge of the Prince George Provincial Court and convicted pedophile, he was imprisoned in 2004 for sexually and physically assaulting twelve-year-old indigenous girls.

We conclude these testimonies, which are part of many many others, by borrowing the words of Mary, a Lakota woman; Mary has known violence and racism since she was very young, so she wrote a book that makes us understand everything that Native American women are forced to face in the silence and indifference of all. In addition, Mary’s autobiography presents at the same time a true cross-section of life conducted within the reserves. "If you think you want to be born, be careful to be born white and male, rape on the reservation is a horrible tragedy, The victims are exclusively pure-blooded Indian girls, very shy and too scared to report the crime. Until recently, the favorite sport of white, state, and federal cops was to arrest an Indian girl on charges of being drunk, despite her sobriety, to take her to prison, where they raped her. Then, as soon as the violence ended, they threw her out of the car and drove away.... So the newly raped girl had to walk 10-15 km to get home in those conditions."

Serenity, 4 years old, disappeared in 2014 Cecilia, 15 years old, disappeared in 1989 Sunshine, 16, disappeared in 2004 Shelly, 25, disappeared in 2013 Joyce, 42, disappeared in 1993 Mary Jean, 48, disappeared 1987 Dianne, 60, disappeared in 2018 And little by little, indigenous women in this country face murder rates that are more than ten times the national average. Murder is the third leading cause of death for indigenous women and girls between the ages of ten and twenty-four and the fifth for women between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-four. Many other testimonies reveal the brutality of these violence. It may seem strange, but the dizzying growth of this violence is due to the fact that inside and near the reserves, there have long been the oil companies, with a proliferation of male workers, not natives, who are housed within the indigenous communities, for then transform into real hunting grounds, where predators look for their victims. It must also be said that in fifty percent of the cases of sexual violence, the native women involved received a rejection from the law firms to which they had turned. The federal authorities are refusing to prosecute crimes that occurred within the reserves, so the jurisdictional black hole has created a proliferation of assaults that are growing thanks to the certainty of impunity. Unfortunately, these abuses are brought to the fore of the chronicles very little and sincerely we do not know the reason, or pretend not to know in order not to involve an entire nation, that these horrific crimes happen and that they can disrupt an entire society, bringing it into the spotlight around the world.

Countries that declare themselves Democrats that instead of appropriating and defending their own Ancient culture, concerning the origins of their landthey destroy, they rape and persecute these people who were the reigning peoples and holders of the territory, t is now no longer theirs and it

was taken from them by force when the Europeans landed in those lands.

Confined to Reserves as second-rate people, they now also live this drama, but we will talk about all this later.

INVESTIGATIONS The new Prime Minister of Canada has announced the opening of a national inquiry into the murder or disappearance of nearly 1200 indigenous women in the last three decades. Several movements and the families of the victims had been asking for an investigation for more than five years, but the predecessor of the Canadian Prime Minister had not been particularly sensitive to the issue. The Minister of Justice said that in the next two

months the Government will consult the families of the victims and the Aboriginal leaders, to gather their opinions on how to structure the investigation, which should start in the coming months. The issue has been under discussion for some time and there are several studies and surveys on the subject, but there have been no adequate interventions so far. The latest research, which also denounces the lack of a real updated database, was presented by the Association of Native Women of Canada to the Parliament in 2014. It was titled "Invisible Women: A Call to Action," and listed a number of recommendations to address the problem. According to the testimonies of victims of domestic violence and several non-profit organizations working in the country against violence against women, indigenous women often do not get the protection offered by national policies. The police are also insufficiently prepared and often investigate cases involving indigenous women in an inadequate manner. There is a dossier of more than 1200 pages that has upset Canada, overwhelming the nation to the point of deforming its seemingly immaculate and progressive contours. It is an occult genocide, the size of which has assumed frightening proportions. The victims will not tire of saying that they were all Native American women of all ages, all swallowed in the coils of a phenomenon that upsets public opinion. The head of the Committee of Inquiry makes a serious accusation against the State of Canada, black on white, between the pages of the government report, the evidence that the institutions would have kept silent, omitted, misled and even ignored the massacre. Many cases would be analyzed with a superficial investigative approach, others filed with the wrong label, so that many women "disappeared" could be murders. This is a national emergency that knows no respite, on which the committee of inquiry hopes a strict intervention of the government, a genocide based on race against girls and women. The spiral of violence, still so out of control, is spreading throughout America, the National Day of Remembrance of Indigenous Women Missing and Murdered was established on May 5 by the Attorney General of Washington State, who announced that his office will lead a twenty-one members member task force to assess the systemic causes behind this very high rate of disappearances and murders. But we ask ourselves: will it be enough to investigate only those who committed these crimes? Wouldn’t it be important to have a national campaign where people enter people’s homes

and explain why it’s not right to do all this and maybe toughen up the laws that relate to this violence? All or almost all the people affected by this phenomenon are: Amerindians, Indios, Inuit, and others, or Native Americans of the North, South, etc. But what else do these people have in common? They are mostly of the blood group 0, among other things a strain that is said to originate in the Americas. In the ufological environment is defined the blood of a lost civilization, Atlanteans, Lemurs or inhabitants of MU or even blood of direct alien descent. People with this blood would be genetically stronger than the rest of humanity at the immune level. True or false we don't know, these things, however, give us some food for thought, let’s see them together. The women who disappear have all or almost the same type of blood, the same ethnicity, the same somatic and morphological characteristics, roughly the same culture and are almost exclusively belonging to the ancient peoples of the two Americas. These peoples interacted, according to many of their myths, with cosmic entities, with ancestral gods who brought change and destruction by traveling through space. Maybe not enough is being done for this holocaust, they will look for the old culprits, but in the meantime more murders will be perpetrated, if the mentality of the people is not changed and as long as some of them think it’s okay to tear these women apart and then throw them away. Taking life is a serious crime, and too often it is taken as a game.

HISTORY The term indigenous peoples of Canada, also known as indigenous Canadians or First Nations, refers to the indigenous peoples who lived within the borders of present-day Canada prior to European colonization and their present-day descendants. They include the Indian bands, the Inuit and the Metis, who originally arrived as Asian nomads from Siberia. The Inuit migrated to northern Canada, while the Indians divided into the rest of the American continent. Features of Canadian Aboriginal culture included permanent settlements, agriculture, civil and ceremonial architecture, complex social hierarchies, and commercial networks. Later with the landing of Christopher Columbus, in 1492, on the coasts of the New World, began a hard period for the natives. In fact, the ruthless colonization of

these lands, put at risk the survival of the natives, who were forced to take refuge, after bloody battles, in reserves, portions of land dedicated to them, where they gave rise to a baggage of customs and traditions, still very fascinating today. Canada, which is one of the largest countries in the world, is also home to some of the most traditional Indian reservations. In this country where nature dominates uncontaminated, you can live a journey through time to learn about the culture of proud people and evocative traditions. The indigenous communities currently covering Indian territory are mostly Iroquois, Inuit and Algonquian. Although "Indian" is still a commonly used term in legal documents, the "Indian" and "Eskimo" descriptors have fallen somewhat into disuse in Canada and some consider them pejorative. The Metis culture of the Sanguemists originated in the mid-17th century, when Inuit and First Nations people married Europeans, Inuit had more limited interactions with European settlers during that early period. Various laws, treaties, and regulations have been passed among European immigrants and First Nations throughout Canada. The Aboriginal right to self-government provides an opportunity to manage the historical, cultural, political aspects of health care and economic control within the communities of early peoples. But let’s talk about another tragedy that struck the native Canadians. Between 1863 and 1998, until yesterday!

150,000 Native American children, who by Canadian racial laws were taken from their families and placed in Catholic schools to be civilized. One hundred and eighteen schools founded by the Canadian government, seventy-nine of them run by the Catholic Church, to tear the natives out of their culture and impose our own. Already in 1907 the press reported that of the 150,000 children interned, 40% had died. A genocide accompanied by every kind of violence and every kind of abuse that happened in those schools. But the silence prevailed, even the atrocities were questioned, until the discovery of the remains of 215 children buried near the school of Kamloops, belonging to the students who disappeared and died without documents, then others were found at other schools. A planned and legalized genocide that in Canada came up almost by accident, thousands of children died in the general silence, something horrible kept hidden for years. But what happened in those Canadian Catholic schools? An extermination under the law that reaffirms the moral and legal inferiority of Native Americans. This law obliged families to sign a document, which

transferred to Christian residential schools the rights of their children and the property of the deceased. Thus the schools came into possession of the lands they obtained by inheritance. The girls were sterilized and for each sterilization the school got a lot of money from the government. According to the press, many deaths were attributed to tuberculosis, when they became ill they were left to die. Now, after the apologies of the Canadian government come also those of the Catholic Church, but will they be enough? What about the guilty? And we still wonder why there have to be genocides of the first class and the second class, because the guilty of genocide are usually condemned and now not? We fill our mouths with words like democracy and freedom; instead, do we allow these horrible events without blinking? Unfortunately, Native Americans have been victims of one of the most ignored genocides in history, beginning with colonization, but which continues and is institutionalized thanks to a lasting form of cultural colonialism and the fossilization of discriminatory practices contained in the systems of these states. The genocide of the natives was perpetrated through the application of three practices: -The physical extermination by war and the destruction of resources, aimed at starving the tribes.

- Cultural genocide through the separation of children from their families and communities, to break the bond of identity handed down from generation to generation.

- Violence against women, the lifeblood of every civilization and the bearer of ancient knowledge. From forced sterilization to today’s attacks on native women.

The American Holocaust has about 20 million deaths, but estimates may be reductive. The extermination carried out by the European colonizers has happened for five hundred years since their arrival, but it has only weakened in the last centuries, from the point of view of war. From now on they will operate with other modalities more insidious and destructive ways, aimed at suppressing the memory and erasing the history of entire tribal realities. "KILL THE INDIAN SAVES THE MAN", was the racist motto of the 119 Canadian residential schools and 367 colleges in the United States, where they had already consumed those ugliness and where a Catholic

bishop already in 1875 said: "We install in them a pronounced disgust for native life so that they are humiliated when their origin is remembered".

The discovery in mass graves of the bodies of more than six thousand children, hidden in anonymous tombs, but the result is one hundred and fifty thousand, who were forcibly interned, dead and missing. Parallel to this holocaust thousands of Native women raped, murdered. Today too many excuses from the authorities and no real stance, even from the Church and the Canadian Prime Minister who shouted: "Enough with these killings!"

But basically everything goes on as before and these women continue to disappear into thin air.

CONCLUSION In the history books, in the United States, in Canada and in Europe, it is written that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Well, the native Protestants of the American continent claim that the navigator has discovered nothing! The indigenous community actually owned these lands and had been living on them for many centuries before the arrival of European ships. In the nation known for its reception of migrants and the low rate of racism, the extent and severity of violence suffered by women First Nations, Inuit and Metis, have reached levels which, according to the UN, constitute a crisis to which, despite numerous calls for action by indigenous organisations, civil society groups, parliamentarians and international bodies, The Canadian government has not yet responded effectively. In some parts of the United States, Native women are ten times more likely than the average woman to be the victim of violent crime.

Decades of discrimination and ghettoisation have impoverished or destroyed entire indigenous communities, exposing many women and girls to a high risk of exploitation. Profonde disuguaglianze hanno spinto molte donne indigene in situazioni precarie, che vanno da alloggi inadeguati, alcol o abuso di droghe, al lavoro sessuale. These same inequalities also deny many indigenous women access to services needed to escape violence, such as emergency shelters and transitional homes. At the same time, some men see indigenous women as easy targets. An examination of data relating to dozens of rape and murder trials shows that crimes against indigenous women are often motivated by racism or the belief that the indifference of society will allow the perpetrators to escape justice. But how is it possible that a government can summarize, by catching some criminals who ultimately killed a few dozen women, in a public investigation of over two thousand disappearances and unsolved murders? However, we would like to give an alleged answer to this question. There are two things, or those of the Canadian government have discovered the catch and have deliberately hidden it because it is shameful and terrible, mostra profondi pregiudizi, che li portano a ignorare le preoccupazioni di un parente di una donna scomparsa da una riserva o di chiudere prematuramente le indagini per una morte sospetta. The Ottawa government, in fact, has not completely overlooked the problem. In 2010, she announced that she would spend $10

million over five years to address violence against indigenous women. But most of the funding went to the police who were monitoring missing persons in general, with no particular attention to what was happening in the reserves. There have been various forms of female racism in the world: from American black women, who have been taken from their homeland and live in a. territory that is not theirs, with many racial discrimination.

Islamophobia, a discriminating form that affects Muslim women disproportionately compared to men. Gypsy women in Eastern Europe are in the minority within their families because they are women. Selective abortions perpetrated in Asia against female foetuses. Honor killings committed in areas like Jordan or Pakistan. oung girls forced to marry with men never seen and much older than them, the so-called "arranged marriages". Crimes of jealousy, which are consumed almost daily in Italy.

And so many other discriminations that take place in the world on a daily basis against women, those about Native Americans, are nothing more than a good part of these, however we must not allow them to happen again.

Governments such as Canada and all other nations will have to actively engage in ending these abuses against their women, who are the most beautiful, the most important thing and who help populate these lands of new people, through births. If they weren’t there, the Earth would be deserted, so let’s give it the right role in society, without beating, raping and killing them. I want to leave a positive note regarding women and men, I am sure that one day evil will yield to the good so that their survival will surely be marked by mutual respect, love and LIFE will prevail over everything.

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Summary Introduction TESTIMONIES INVESTIGATIONS HISTORY CONCLUSION