May 8, 2019 | Sexual Exploitation / Trafficking
Indigenous communities have seen their own influx of stories of sexual assault following the rise of the #MeToo movement. But Lindsay Nixon said these stories were surfacing in Indigenous communities well before that. Nixon, a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux writer, said...
May 8, 2019 | MMIWG, Sexual Exploitation / Trafficking
With drums, war paint, songs and art, Indigenous women and supporters spoke out Monday against human trafficking in London and stood in solidarity to remember Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Dozens took to the street outside Atlohsa Family...
Jun 5, 2018 | Sexual Exploitation / Trafficking
Although attention to human trafficking has grown in the last few years, trafficking is not a modern crime. Trafficking has existed in Native communities for centuries, since the earliest point of contact with Europeans. See this thought-provoking article titled...
Apr 12, 2018 | Sexual Exploitation / Trafficking, Youth
Mary G. was born from the boats. Her children were born from the boats too, all fathered through her liaisons with male customers. She has never known anything else. Like generations of Native girls and women before her, Mary and her family are inextricably tied to...
