E va was found at dusk in late December , standing in an Albuquerque parking lot. She drove three hours, from her house outside Gallup, and arrived a few minutes after 1am to see Eva emerge from the juvenile holding area, quiet and hunched. Her cheeks and neck looked skeletal. She kept her answers short and rolled her eyes. A familiar pattern was unfolding.

At the age of five weeks, a baby born in Thunder Bay to an Anishinaabe woman from Northern Ontario was adopted by a non-Indigenous family. It was She began acting out and was relinquished by her adoptive parents to the Children's aid society when she was According to a Statistics Canada report based on police reported data , 72 per cent of human trafficking victims between and were under the age of A report by prepared by the Ontario Native Women's Association in lists a history of sexual exploitation, poverty, lack of awareness or acknowledgement of sexual exploitation and a legacy of colonization as trafficking risk factors. One evening when she was 12, some of the older girls in the group home told Perrier they were going to go make some money. She ended up running away from the group home with the older girls and says that no one really looked for her.

Visit our Research Matters blog for weekly posts from the homelessness sector here. The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The recent history of Canada is the history of the colonization of Aboriginal peoples.

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