![]() ![]() She is one of Canada’s estimated 4,000 missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, another face to the national tragedy again drawing attention to Winnipeg in the wake of questions surrounding the remains of those believed slain and dumped in landfills.įonassa, born smack-dab in the middle of a large, extended family, was loved fiercely and returned that love effortlessly. No one has ever been arrested or charged in her slaying. Later that month, her body was discovered in a field northwest of the city - stabbed 17 times. “When I do, sometimes I have nightmares.”įonassa, 17, was last seen getting into a car in Winnipeg on Aug. Not since it happened,” the residential and day school survivor told the Free Press. Cartoons blare in the background, catching the children’s attention for moments at a time before the curious boys return their gaze to their grandmother. She sits at her dining-room table while her two young grandsons play underfoot. ![]() ![]() “I have dreams about her,” Bruyere, 72, says of her granddaughter, Fonassa Bruyere. SAGKEENG FIRST NATION - There is an ache in Janet Bruyere’s heart that won’t go away a void that keeps her up at night while the rest of her family sleeps in their modest home on this First Nation. ![]() Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. ![]()
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