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| Bea Kwaronhiahawi Barnes. |
The Montreal Police are asking for the public’s help in locating 17-year-old Bea Kwaronhiahawi Barnes, who was last seen on January 5. Police say she requires medication which she does not have with her. Police said they believe she is in the Chateauguay area. She was wearing a beige and white checked coat and beige boots when she was last seen. She has brown hair and brown eyes and is 5’5” and weighs about 200 pounds. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is being asked to call 514-393-1133.
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Each day for the better part of one year this past thinking of Tiffany Morrison, her extended family and the social impact of Tiffany’s unresolved disappearance from the Kahnawake Kanienke’ha:ka community here beside Tiohtia:ke[~"Montreal"], & receiving knowledge of Kwaronhiahawi’s disappearance sent a new shock through all of this… I mainly want to say that I believe the pictures & names & personal stories of our missing women & girls deserve to be front & center in the consciousness of every single individual of every age who exists within our territory of Onowaregeh, and this appeal is to request that this web-site also be redesigned so that this attention is always maintained at the forefront as the first information a person encounters whenever they come to this web site, so that we all can remain completely focused upon the continuing impacts of the tragedies created throughout our communities by these disappearances and murders of the most important individuals amongst our society…
Today being February 23rd, & just now I have come over to this site immediately after having followed the story link I received by Email that an On^yota a’ka teenage girl’s body was found today at Oneida Nation of the Thames, my own nation’s community. From the experiences of Tiffany & Kwaronhiahawi’s disappearances, in receiving today’s news I am beyond shocked, I can say that it occurs to me that I was personally already prepared for this & somewhere mentally & emotionally more than half prepared even while never consciously expecting that it might or could have ever happened…
… The main thing I want to say, directed toward my nation, is that I want the circumstances of our community having lost Sierra Phillips in this way & during this time of an epidemic of violence unfolding directed toward our women & girls, that On^yota a’ka become united, Joel Abrahms to demonstrate & prove his solidarity with the people by renouncing the colonial position which he currently holds in direct cooperation with the alien ways of the colonial society responsible for Sierra’s death. Shocked & sorrowful feelings and expressions of sympathy for Sierra’s family are not strong enough emotions for the On^yota a’ka nation to make right in these circumstances, and this is true for all First Nations communities who have lost our irreplaceable women & girls and suffered immeasurably through this genocidal epidemic unfolding in the name of Canada…
I am also writing this here because Missing Justice is a ’safe’ place being an organization demonstrating faithful solidarity in the actions needed to solve this issue, & also to make mention that I was effectively forced to come here to spell out my thoughts because today’s story, published at a canoe.ca website, was already closed to public commenting & what does that say about Canada as well?
To call oneself a Canadian invites shame upon oneself.