No response yet to request for MMIW hearing in P.A.
The chairperson of Prince Albert Grand Council’s Women’s Commission is still waiting to learn if a hearing will be held in the city regarding missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
About three months ago, Shirley Henderson wrote to officials with the National Inquiry to request commissioners visit Prince Albert and hear the stories of local people and northerners. She said the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations also sent the same letter, but she has yet to receive a response.
“So many of our people from the North were left out of the hearings when they had it in Saskatoon,” Henderson said. “I only recognized two families there from Prince Albert and we’ve got a heck of a lot more.”
Henderson said she expected to hear back from the National Inquiry already, and noted she called and spoke with a community liaison officer about the request. Her messaged was forwarded, she said, but the worker told her she didn’t know if it would go through.