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Portrait of Collège Jeanne-Sauvé student Brianna Jonnie,
outside her school holding a photo of herself that she
submitted to police chief Clunis along with a letter about
her fears of going missing like other aboriginal females.
Photo by RUTH BONNEVILLE
- Winnipeg Free Press, March 5, 2016
Without the Winnipeg Free Press,
your stories wouldn't be told
When indigenous teen Brianna Jonnie, 14, drafted a two-page letter to instruct the police
chief on what to do if she went missing – "If I go missing … I beg of you, do not treat me as the
indigenous person I am proud to be" – she sent copies to the premier, the mayor, the justice
minister – and the Winnipeg Free Press. The result was a story of a young girl so moved by the
plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women that she wrote to the chief. It became
national news.
That's because it was a story that needed to be told.
and it started with the Free Press.
What to do if I go missing: Indigenous teen gives
instructions to city police chief if she goes missing
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