Indigenous people much more likely to be murdered than other Canadians

[Judi Lynn]

Of 651 murders in 2018, 140 were of Indigenous people – 22%
First Nations, Métis and Inuit account for only 5% of population

Kat Eschner in Toronto
Tue 23 Jul 2019 13.11 EDT Last modified on Tue 23 Jul 2019 13.39 EDT

Indigenous people continue to be dramatically overrepresented among Canadian murder victims, according to a new report released by Statistics Canada.

First Nations, Métis and Inuit make up only 5% of Canada’s population, but in 2018 they made up 22% of the country’s homicide victims. Of the 651 murders that took place in Canada in 2018, 140 were of Indigenous people: 96 men and 44 women.

“While the number of male victims decreased for the first time since 2014 … there were six more female victims of homicide than in 2017, marking a second consecutive annual increase,” the report reads.

The data on murders is only one part of a much larger picture of violence made complicated by poor data collection procedures.

Earlier this year, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its damning final report. That document called what is happening to Canada’s Indigenous peoples a “genocide” that “has been empowered by colonial structures”.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigenous-murder-victims

[applegrove]

1. Important story.

[Igel]

2. Here's a survey of homicide stats for Canada for 2017.

"Aboriginal" information is about 3/4 of the way down.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2018001/article/54980-eng.htm

It includes information that isn't quite so advocational.

[Blue_Tires]

3. kick...