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Originally Posted by Redway
The Simpsons made a little mention of that in the episode I watched (in as much as I dislike pretty-much everything from season 20 onwards it’s become a bit like Family Guy as far as undisguised, borderline-libellous political references go, sha) but generally I can’t imagine it being any worse than the treatment of Native Americans in the US. They’re marginalised so white.European-Americans can think of themselves as some sort of indigenous majority who the world more-or-less revolves around.
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Pretty much.
Stacey Dooley did an eye opening documentary on it iirc.
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Stacey Dooley Investigates - Canada's Lost Girls
Canada has a dark secret - the disappearance and murder over decades of over a thousand indigenous women and girls. Stacey travels to British Columbia and Alberta to find out more about what some believe is a national scandal.
She begins on a remote road dubbed the Highway of Tears, where dozens of woman have vanished or been murdered since 1980 whilst trying to hitchhike. As a national enquiry is launched, it has emerged that there are cases across the country - but why do so many remain unsolved?
Stacey meets the family of Amber Tuccaro, who was 20 when she was abducted and murdered in 2010, who feel there are still so many unanswered questions about Amber as well as four other victims found in a six-mile radius.
The indigenous Canadian community has criticised the police, accusing them of failing to investigate indigenous cases properly. In the words of one elder, 'some of the biggest racists carry a gun and they carry a badge.'
Stacey meets the police to ask what they are doing to address this issue and bring closure to the families of the missing and murdered.
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