Strangers Scour the Land
The search for Maisy and Shannon continues
by Maya Rolbin-Ghanie and Dru Oja Jay
The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca
KITIGAN ZIBI ANISHINABEG–Maisy Odjick, 17, and her friend Shannon Alexander, now 18, vanished from Shannon’s father’s apartment in Maniwaki, Quebec, September 6, 2008. Both are from Kitigan Zibi, an Algonquin reserve adjacent to Maniwaki. Since September, neither [...]
March 8, 2009
To whom it may concern:
I write this letter to you as a concerned mother and citizen. I would like to bring to your attention several issues concerning the disappearance of my daughter, Maisy Odjick, and the manner in which the Kitigan Zibi Police Services and le Surete du Quebec have handled this case. [...]
Press Release – For Immediate Release
Ottawa, ON (May 14, 2009) – Today the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and the AFN Women’s Council united to express their opposition to the federal Bill C-8, An act respecting family homes situated on First Nation reserves and matrimonial interests or rights [...]
Thu May 14, 10:48 AM
By Sue Bailey, The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090514/national/missing_women
OTTAWA - The Conservative government is deflecting calls for a public investigation into more than 500 cases of missing or murdered native women.
Liberal MP Anita Neville says her party will push until the government acts.
She says there would be national outrage if hundreds of women from [...]
By Brendan Kennedy, The Ottawa Citizen May 13, 2009
The bones found near Maniwaki on Saturday — raising suspicions they might be part of the remains of two teenage girls missing from the area for more than eight months — were determined by a Montreal lab to have come from an animal.
The bones were found beside [...]
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/determine+bones+found+near+Maniwaki+human/1584417/story.html
The Ottawa Citizen May 11, 2009
OTTAWA — Quebec provincial police have sent bones found near Maniwaki, where two teenaged girls disappeared last summer, for lab analysis to see whether they are human.The bones were found by Kitigan-Zibi police about 8:15 p.m. Saturday, and they called in the provincial police.
The bones were found beside Road 107 [...]
On may 2nd, the search for Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander continued, on the Kitigan Zibi reserve, 8 months after the two girls went missing. The search was organized by the Odjick family, with the help of Amnesty International, which donated 2 buses to help transport volunteers from Ottawa who wished to help with the [...]