Accused serial killer charged in deaths of 3 Winnipeg women

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) held a news conference following the police announcement Monday.

Grand Chief Derek Nepinak said First Nations women are sacred and valued citizens of aboriginal communities and must not be treated as second-class citizens.

In the late 1980s, the Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) reported that Aboriginal women were eight times more likely (not adjusted) to suffer abuse than non-Aboriginal women (ONWA, 1989). Based on 15 abused and 76 nonabused Aboriginal women receiving prenatal services in Saskatoon in 1993–4, Muhajarine and D’Arcy reported a nearly three-fold increased risk for Aboriginal women, after adjusting for partner drinking, perceived stress, and lower social support (Table 1). Some scholars would make the case that some of these factors are in fact part of the syndrome of historical trauma and social marginalization, so adjusting for these will underestimate the true difference between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups.