Landfills can’t become graves for murder victims: Indigenous leaders
Landfills can’t become graves for murder victims: Indigenous leaders

By Dave Baxter Local Journalism Initiative Reporter First Nations leaders say there is both the technology and the resources available to make finding the remains of two murdered Indigenous women a possibility and disputed any notion that a search for the remains of those women should not happen because it is not “feasible.” “We know the technology exists to make it possible,” Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) Grand Chief Garrison Settee said in a statement released jointly late Thursday by MKO, The Southern Chiefs Organization (SCO), the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC), and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN). According to the organizations, in November the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), which is based in Prague, was engaged with Canadian officials to assist in the response to the discovery of

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