Aboriginal Groups Mark Sombre Anniversary

Aboriginal Groups Mark Sombre Anniversary

Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 13:45

 

 

A day of violence against women was marked and mourned in North Battleford by two Aboriginal groups yesterday.

 

On December 6th, 1989, Marc Lepine murdered 14 women in a Montreal university.

 

BTC Indian Health and the Aboriginal arm of Battlefords Victim Services held a ceremony in an inner-city school.

 

Candles were lit for all women who have been murdered or harmed by violence.

 

Several girls from the Moosomin First Nation staged a play called “An Aboriginal Youth’s Cry For Help”.

 

It shows how relationship violence can occur, and what can be done to stop it — or at least how to alert others who can stop it.

 

Battlefords Tribal Council youth addictions counsellor Jessica Atcheynum says three-quarters of the work she does involves relationship violence.

 

Atcheynum says it takes victims a while to tell someone they are being abused — but she says she knows the signs and symptoms to look for, and she can usually catch those cues right away.