We are more than murdered and missing. | Tamara Bernard | TEDxThunderBay

[@GemmaBenton]

Aniin! Thank you Sister for sharing your story. Just saw this and hope that it inspires other women to share their stories.

[@amandamccallum6796]

Every first nation's people I have ever met are some of the kindest and most welcoming people I have ever met. The generational trauma and abuse breaks my heart 💔 EVERY life has value and the missing woman deserves to be found!

[@sarahoceanhart8145]

Lots of love and healing energies to you and your family Tamara, and to all indigenous people! I love you all. I honor you.

[@RBM23]

You are worth it beautiful lady. Your family's stories are important. All are important and yes you are more. Love and healing to you!

[@peterstorie9428]

Heart wrenching. Thank you for sharing Tamara Bernard, Your voice has been heard!

[@sarahstauffer1]

I grew up in the foster care system after being taken from my Indigenous mother at the age of 4 for something I KNOW she didn't do.. I also lost my right to status because i was made a crown ward of the government..

[@sarahoceanhart8145]

Sending you lots of love and healing energies, Sarah. This breaks my heart. Big healing hugs for you. I hope that you were able to reunite with your mother and your people.

[@yoshisarethebomb]

I hope you and your family can reunite

[@chickywestgurl1]

love how passionate you are about this issue Tamara, great talk, thanks for sharing your sacred knowledge

[@dianneshaw9795]

I have so much respect for every Indigenous man, woman and child. You are loved, you are cared about, you are important. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

[@jessicawalker5419]

Aanii! Thank you so so so so very much for sharing this powerful message that all of us as treaty people, indigenous or no, NEED to know!!! Thank you for bravely sharing your passion and pain on this topic! We need more people sharing through their pain in this way! It really helps make the message that much more powerful! I cannot thank you enough! Chi-Miigwetch!

[@EnglishforProfessionals]

Tamara, I am using your speech in my ESL class to enlighten my students. I wish I could meet you and do more to help.

[@linguafrancacoaching]

I am here for the same reason. Love that 😊

[@raedawn7991]

thank you for this it s truly a wake up call for any one

[@catcarney4521]

miigwech sister fro sharing. This genocide is not spoken of enough, and does not get enough recognition within Canada. Indigenous womxn deserve more.

[@mitralujan5276]

Nor in America.

[@katerigonzalez3261]

I do not know if I should be saying this. I will just say it. As a Native American Woman. I do not feel honored. I've been ignored, rejected, unwanted, unloved, put her aside. I feel like I stand alone. This comes from Native Men & Non-Native Men.

[@Gymanneye]

So do I

[@tmo2798]

Have you been out there selling it on the track? As long as you stay away from truck drivers and drug addicts, you should be alright.

[@elinikolai7493]

I care for you don't let them break you.

[@tmo2798]

@Christopher Fenton They need a good pimp. Not the FBI. Even gorgeous, smart Indian women get dumped by their BFFF... Then they get smoked out. They need a good pimp.

[@sarahoceanhart8145]

Lots of love to you sister! Much love to all of the Natives of the Americas....

[@annettesandy5546]

Thank you for sharing your story; truly brought tears to my eyes. We are more! If people were not stirred to moral panic with so many MMIWG, surely lost indigenous residential children will.

[@user-nw4rm1kf5v]

Thank you for sharing your powerful speech Tamara. I've heard you and have shared it with others so that they will do the same. Thank you

[@iram9111]

Much respect. I feel you. From a german woman.

[@whisperingwillow7697]

@@shawnbechard3680 No offense but this Tedtalk is being done because of the record number of Indigenous women who are being murdered and stolen, at a higher rate than any other race. It's not meant to marginalize men who suffered it's brought up because the Media hardly never covers and people don't know about it.

[@willholt6389]

Great presentation, Tamara. Hope you're doing well.

[@linguafrancacoaching]

I learned about biography from Cherokee women and used it in my research in political economy. I thank you so much for giving us, non-natives/non-American people, insight in your experinces and knowledge. I love to learn from you and to listen to you and to share with you.

[@AngelaRobertsFeist]

You are doing such important work, you all are loved dearly! I will continue to stand for, expect and ask others to live from a greater loving moral compass! To demand it of our governments and ourselves, our businesses, our cultures! The tide of love is changing towards our indigenous people, we will get there. YOU ARE SACRED & PRECIOUS! Every woman is a divine creation and all the rights of the people need to be given back, the status returned to all!

[@kmdeathly6068]

Watching this for english class

[@2uconner]

I am an Indigenous woman2 thank u Tamara

[@rahmajokab2900]

Such a great woman 💗god bless you

[@judywyatt4790]

Good info and hope offered. Thank you for sharing.

[@terriharman6008]

Justicefor Tammy Mahoney..murdered May 8, 1981 at a trailer party on Oneida Indian Reservation. 12 to 14 witnesses, no prosecution. WHY?

[@terriharman6008]

Oneida, New York!

[@botsmokie5388]

It makes you wonder why the other people (whom I can only assume were at least partially indigenous) did nothing to ensure prosecution

[@juliettemay2666]

You are a beautiful strong worthy woman. Thank you for sharing your story!

[@marygracehughes7455]

Inspirational

[@stanhootzz1904]

Gunal-Cheesh fer yer share and the courage ta step up n be heard. May Mother Earth bless yer endeavors with the highest good. A'HO!

[@Sillik1]

i love this.

[@kimlangley7022]

I have moral panic- and I am not indigenous-but I understand what it is to be marginalized and discriminated against almost to death-and I had no one to report it to,since it was a systemic issue-did not think it would be received and I am white looking and middle class-so Thank you for making me think about how that hapens , and the low self esteem and dread that comes with it.Please hold your heads high and know that it is not womens fault ever-there are many of us that are watching and wanting to be helpers- until all women and girls are respected in law and in our collective culture in Canada-none of us is safe or free.I stand with MMIW and so does my family.Please let us know how we can help.I wish the truckers protest had been about these issues and the government of Canada.Haigka-from the Coast.

[@sarahstauffer1]

My Mother and Grandmother is status. And i should be. But ya...

[@chanelvanzile1975]

Non status Native women have rights too in my mind but I am American Indian. I wish I were able to help.

[@nicholasfenwick4320]

Literally the worst teacher you could get at lakehead

[@linguafrancacoaching]

I feel we need urgently to balance the expenses we do on "national security" and "nuclear science" to be invested in learning how to see, recognize, aknowledge, respect and foremost LOVE each other, our land and life.

[@linda01234567890]

Sorry for all this trauma. Thank you for your story. Please start carrying a gun or knife. Let the monsters see how quickly they will die.

[@RhondaLeeQ]

Excellent talk! Is there a contact email for Tamara? :) Thanks! xo

[@sarahstauffer1]

Oh if i go missing or im murdered, i am one of the mmiw.. The fact that they stripped away my mother is irrelevant and doesn't change FACTS

[@chanelvanzile1975]

I'm sorry for the loss of your Mother. Though, MMIWG is just not the point she is making; she is focusing on the fact that "We" are "More than those statistics".

[@Sonia-vl2em]

Sorry for your lack of understanding of issue.

[@ronniejames1110]

I didn't hear her admit to the involvement of aboriginals in MMIW?.what a surprise..always pointing the finger at others.

[@hiddenrealms9334]

"we are land"

[@rebent1016]

Thank You..

[@NoOne-dt8wg]

❤

[@calvinflamand8965]

Even though I wasn’t scooped up in the sixties I still remember it every time a car turned into our road to our house we had to run and hide in the attics old cars or dark bushes and stay there until daylight just in case it was the welfare system and cops

[@jonigirl1968]

This video is 4 years old and still America does nothing 😔🤬

[@annalisavajda252]

Well like the residential schools the issue was largely just denied for years now they want "truth and reconciliation" because how can they have reconciliation if the wrongs are not even acknowledged? That's typical of the justice system though don't even want to convict a violent offender still tell the victim to forgive them don't even believe the victims half the time degrade them further. MMIWG are victims of crime first and foremost not "indigenous" and the grief cycle is difficult if you are raised to have any self respect and eventually are forced to "accept" actually you are just another statistic nothing important about you.

[@sarahstauffer1]

You wont see moral panic from soulless psychopaths, which is the majority..

[@heatherwheeler8330]

even as recent as 2 years ago, first nations women are not given their newborns until they agree to be sterilized.

[@moirhann]

whaaat?? where does this happen?? USA??

[@lynnadore5934]

Thunder Bay. The worst!

[@txexmxiii9561]

💖💛💖

[@acerbic5806]

She's cute.

[@bismillahschool]

Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilaihi Rajiun- we indeed come from Allah and go to Allah - too much Pain;

[@updownstate]

She's moving around so much she made me seasick.

[@karlos_infamous]

She looks white.. maybe she's 1/4 or 1/8 indigenous

[@jameswaters2633]

Straighten out!, show some class and respect little man.

[@karlos_infamous]

@@jameswaters2633 Why are you angry about my comment? What's wrong with someone describing a white-looking person that she looks white.

[@BlueBerry-fb7ho]

We need to quit weeping on the past and move on. That’s why are people are so down. Get on your feet and do something about it don’t drink. That’s why we don’t go anywhere you keep on talking about these things that happen in the past. There stuck in the past.

[@kidndn]

Missing and Murdered Native Women isn't a problem just in the past. This is a current issue and problem. You can't move forward if you don't know where you've been. That isn't just moping on the past but seeing what we as a human society has done in the past to evaluate what will work better in the present and the future.

[@colleennewholy9026]

It's not in the past bro. There are a variety of things happening NOW, that echo what has been continuously done. Women are still being taken, children are still being taken. Land continues to be taken, our own spirituality is being taken by crazy white people who just want to make money off of it. Language is continuously trodden upon by non natives, because we should all speak English and not our own dialects. Most of us can't even do things with the land we were given during the land acts. Maybe if we were left alone by the rest of society, allowed to be something that we used to (nomadic, fishermen, farmers or entirely sea fairing), we would be doing much better. But we're required to "fit" in with the rest of the world, and required to relinquish our ancestry and the pride that comes from the thousands of generations of impactful history. But apparently we can't cry around about it, while neo nazis and fascists get to weep about not being able to be proud to be white. WHEN WE CANT EVEN BE ACKNOWLEDGED AS LIVING PEOPLE

[@sophiedatt8687]

Not in the past whatsoever.

[@philima]

And even if it were in the past, it's easy for you to talk but imagine your family and race being persecuted, discriminates against and almost wiped out. All by people coming to your land, your houses...

[@falconeaterf15]

What a bunch of pointless dribble.

[@asms_music417]

thanks for this comment, it really models how to add something of value to the discourse.

[@chucklinkt]

a small pointless mind will always see and find dribble in anything and everything around you. Even in that cramped up miserable little world of your own creation. What a waste of intelligence and life.

[@raedawn7991]

why don't you focus on your own dribble you have no right to slander or fork tongue this woman ..

[@paigehodgins9304]

This comment is why I hate society

[@msdee7444]

Wow! Did you really mean to publically post your most ultimate ignorance? Yes, yes, as a matter of fact you did! An obvious deliberate intent to just drive that knife in further,...while trying to deliver yet another bash to the Indigenous people (especially the women) at any cost. Your comment, actually proves her point! Good job! Too bad you don't have anything more than a pea brain, to actually or remotely absorb a mere point!?

[@jamesfreeman7954]

Lols. You look white doe.

[@asms_music417]

thanks for this comment, it really models how to add something of value to the discourse.

[@ShawnaHill83]

I'm sorry how should she look? How should I look? We don't all look like Disney's Pocahontas. Just like not all caucasians have blue eyes and blonde hair.

[@chucklinkt]

You look like white doe too. Only more so.

[@kidndn]

There are well over 560 Native tribes just in the USA. We don't all look the same. We don't all speak the same language either. We don't have all the same beliefs. People act like Natives have only one look...one face...

[@colleennewholy9026]

Sorry bro, a lot of 'northern' natives tend to be a wee more pale than a lot of peoples in the south west and central America. As a nomadic tribe, my ancestors would have been darker in the summer time. Then lighter skinned in winter Still happens to me to be honest

[@yeilkthunderhawktlinget7306]

@griff investigates @it matters @hanlon . Mom said all the same AH’Ocommon moral panic, who vanishing next mr griff said same thing not s workers