Before joining Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s as an associate law professor in January, Kimberly Murray spent two and a half years investigating missing and disappeared Indigenous children and unmarked graves from Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s residential school past.
Appointed by Ottawa, Murray worked with First Nation, Métis, and Inuit communities to help families with missing and disappeared loved ones and to determine how to respectfully handle graves where children were buried, often in unmarked plots.
Her work was deeply emotional, involving many heartbreaking stories. One was that of Reg Nepinak, who was searching for his long-lost sister, Marlene. In the 1960s, at age seven, Marlene was taken from her home on the Pine Creek Reserve in Manitoba by an Indian Agent and sent to a home for the disabled. She never returned.
Nepinak and his two surviving sisters knew that Marlene had died at 13, in 1971, but had no idea where she spent her last years or where her final resting place was. Murray helped uncover that Marlene had been sent across the country to an institution in Quebec and buried in an unmarked grave in Magog, Que. The family finally had answers, and, in 2023, they travelled to Magog to hold a ceremony to bring their sister카지노 게임 컬렉션s spirit home.
Murray카지노 게임 컬렉션s work as Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools reinforced the importance of uncovering these lost stories.
As Canada approaches Red Dress Day on May 5 카지노 게임 컬렉션 the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S+) 카지노 게임 컬렉션 her work serves as a reminder of the injustices Indigenous communities have long faced.
Murray, a member of the Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk Nation and Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s National Scholar in Indigenous Legal Studies, has been a witness to the fight for reconciliation her entire career.
In 1995, after earning her law degree, she became a staff lawyer and then executive director with Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto. There, she saw first-hand the outright racism and indifference that police and the judicial system had toward Indigenous people.
She recalls driving her two young daughters to school before heading to court, discussing a client카지노 게임 컬렉션s case on the way. 카지노 게임 컬렉션One of my daughters would say, 카지노 게임 컬렉션Well, that카지노 게임 컬렉션s just not fair.카지노 게임 컬렉션 And all I could think was, if only the judge thought like my four-year-old.카지노 게임 컬렉션
From 2010 to 2015, Murray served as executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. She later became Ontario카지노 게임 컬렉션s first assistant deputy attorney general for Indigenous justice, helping communities revitalize Indigenous laws and expand legal services.
Murray encourages Canadians to take time on Red Dress Day for reflection and education. 카지노 게임 컬렉션This is a day to recognize, accept and learn about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and to think about how we can change the systems,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says.
She suggests reading about the issues and attending Red Dress Day events to hear directly from affected families. (A good place to start is reading is the of her final report as Independent Special Interlocutor.)
Now a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s National Scholar in Indigenous Legal Studies, Murray is promoting reconciliation within the legal profession. Recognizing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission카지노 게임 컬렉션s call for mandatory courses on Indigenous history, the law and Crown-Indigenous relations in law schools, she has developed a course titled Lawyering for Reconciliation.
She카지노 게임 컬렉션s also conducting research on how lawyers and judges interact with Indigenous Peoples and communities, highlighting how to improve the system.
카지노 게임 컬렉션There are many cases of bad lawyering, but I want to show the good examples so people can learn from each other,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Lawyers don카지노 게임 컬렉션t always know how to translate what they카지노 게임 컬렉션ve learned [about reconciliation] into their day-to-day practices.카지노 게임 컬렉션
