That kind of narrative about Indigenous people just lends itself to more violence so that when this violence does happen, it's not a disruption of the social fabric the way it would be when it happens to somebody else, because we're already perceived as not part of the social fabric, because we're either dead and disappeared. We're less than human. We're so far away on some remote reservation that we're not part of the rest of the community.

Annita Lucchesi

Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed for our communities. The rate of violence has not decreased. The rate of prosecution has not increased.

Annita Lucchesi

Families still have the same needs they had two years ago, five years ago. Law enforcement are still ignoring them. Cases are still going unsolved and violence continues to occur.

Annita Lucchesi

What's the point of creating( new) initiatives to address this crisis when the laws they've already passed are not being implemented ?

Annita Lucchesi

There's a lot of coverage of this issue that describes it as a mystery, like we don't know what's happening, as if native women are kind of like a rabbit and a magic act, like we just mysteriously disappear and that's not real.

Annita Lucchesi

They gave their lives so that we could fight for a better world here, and we're here as their helpers, they send us to where we need to go.

Annita Lucchesi