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May 10, 20214 min read

No More Stolen Sisters

In this article, Jardar Alai informs us on this prevalent issue.

No more stolen sisters is a slogan about indigenous women that are missing or been killed. 84% of indigenous women have experienced violence at least once in their lifetime and over 50% have also experienced sexual abuse.The indigenous communities are facing an epidemic of missing and murdered women and girls. Since 2016 the numbers have been over 5000 that have been reported missing or murdered and 27% of the victims are under 18. Most of the cases have been unreported and little to no investigation from the police. May 5th is national day of awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women. We are going to tell 7 indigenous women stories that unfortunately ended up in that situation.

  • Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind-Sprit lake sioux tribe, last seen August 17, 2019

She was starting a new life with her boyfriend, and she was pregnant with a daughter. She just got a new job and they have moved to a new apartment, so life was going great for this couple. Savanna had a great relationship with her mother Norberta, so she told her everything. Savanna neighbors Brooke Crews and William Hoehn invited her for a visit and after that visit she was never seen again. Norberta became worried and contacted police of her missing daughter as well as her last contact with Hoehn and Crews. Police investigated and found nothing. Many rumors came that Hoehn and Crews got a baby that wasn’t there before and that got the attention of Norberta. She forced police to investigate Hoehn and crews again and that time police found the baby and arrest them. After a DNA test the child's parents were Savanna and her boyfriend. A few weeks later Savanna's body was found in a lake. Crews got life in prisonment without any parole, but Hoehn got 20 years.

  • Cheynne Santana Marie Fox- Wikwemikong First Nation on Manitoulin Island Ontario Canada. Body found April 25 2013

On the evening of April 25, 2013, Cheyenne’s lifeless body was found below a Toronto Highrise, where she had landed after plunging from the 24th floor. The police determined there was no evidence of criminal activity in Cheyenne’s death, but her father strongly believes his daughter was murdered. Cheyenne was a victim of human trafficking where the traffickers befriended her and exploited her because of her vulnerability. On the day she died she was sexually assaulted in the taxi and later she was in a fight with another man. 2 individuals made a call to the police after witnessing both events, but the police did not come to investigate and that ended up with Cheyenne's death. The police closed the case, but the case remains unsolved.

  • Brooklyn Moose – Native Canadian woman, last seen February 27, 2015

Before Brooklyn was last seen she told her grandma Margaret that she was getting threats from a neighbour. That scared Brooklyn to change the door locks twice and she started searching for a new place to live. After February 27th nobody had any contacts with her and after police were called, they found her body inside the attic in her home. Police called this case a suicide, but Margaret disagrees, and she believes she got killed.

  • Nicole Daniels- Sagkeeng First Nation, last seen night of march 31 2009

On March 31, she decided to meet a man that her family did not know of. The next day her body was found with her clothes off. Police determined that she died of hypothermia; a finding further corroborated the fact that her clothes had been undone. Such an act signals what’s known as “paradoxical undressing”, wherein someone suffering from the advanced stages of hypothermia feels a sudden surge of warmth and removes layers of clothing in order to cool themselves down. Before Nicole was buried her family found bruises on her arms, legs that weren't there before that night. Her family believes she died as a result of foul play, most likely at the hands of the man she was with on the night of March 31, 2009. They feel the alcohol and drugs in her system may have increased her vulnerability that night, and they believe the unidentified man supplied the alcohol to her.

  • Beatrice Adam-Dene, last seen October 8.2014.

Beatrice was a woman that had some tough years where she struggled with substance abuse. Her father Alan Adam made her quit drugs and made her come out from the streets. Beatrice had gotten a boyfriend and they were walking on a bridge in Prince Albert, Sask., on October 8, 2014. Four days later, her body was found floating in the North Saskatchewan River. The chief coroner’s office declared her death was caused by drowning but her father disagrees. Beatrice also had bruises on her body but that is not sure if it's from the fall or not. Her boyfriend also went missing after Beatrice disappeared. Alan Adam thinks the police did not investigate very truly.

  • Traci Genereaux- Native British Colombia woman-last seen May 29.2017

Traci is a woman who became disabled after a car accident. She was last seen on May 29 in the city of Vernon Canada. In October that same year they found remains of Traci on a farm in Silver creek. Curtis Wayne Sagmoen owns the farm. After 4 years of this discovery Curtis hasn’t been arrested and investigation has not moved further than that. Traci hasn’t gotten the justice she deserves.

  • Selena Shelley Faye Not Afraid- the Crow and Nakota, last seen January 1st, 2021.

Selena was 16-year-old before she disappeared early in this year. On 1.1.2021 she was walking home from a new year's party and she was last seen going out of a car outside a rest area off Interstate 90 between Hardin and Billings, according to the FBI. The police and FBI found her body in an area southwest of the rest area where she was last seen. This investigation is an ongoing case for now.

Well now we have gone over 7 cases of missing and murder of indigenous women and many of them have not received justice! If you are interested to learn more about these women stories, I will link the original articles down and if you are interested to help missing indigenous women share a post about them on your social media.


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