Carmen Tran

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Monday, March 2, 2015

Missing aboriginal men need more attention, too: N.W.T. mother Published on February 5, 2015 on CBC News, the news article “Missing aboriginal men need more attention, too: N.W.T. mother,” examines the lack of Margaret Leishman, the mother of one of the many missing Aboriginal individuals, has requested for further attentiveness be brought to these cases. Margaret Leishman’s son, Philip Leishman has been missing since July 2004 and was last seen with a friend going through the South Slave Region of Kakisa in the Northwest Territories moving towards the east. In the article, Leishman speaks about the additional response the cases involving the Aboriginal women are receiving compared to those of the absent Aboriginal men. RCMP has recently released the numbers of individuals that have disappeared in the N.W.T. since 1960 and out of the 43 cases eight are concerning Aboriginal females, while 35 are regarding Aboriginal males. Leishman knows that it is important that everyone be found safely and brought back home and she has faith that the attention on the disappearances of Aboriginal women will further increase the responsiveness on the cases of the missing men. As stated in the article, there is more action taken when it is about the case of missing women. From the compiled statistics it illustrates that there is a greater number of indigenous men missing and murdered relative to that of even Aboriginal females. Given the figures, people believe that the attention has been misplaced on the gender of the individuals. Even though this is true, there has been more focus on the disappearances and homicides of indigenous females by nationwide establishments. RCMP, one of the many organizations mentioned, has created the National Operational Overview on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, having no future