Killings of Indigenous women in Vancouver reserves
example ·
retold in 3 talks
A male ritual of killing Native American Indian girls on Vancouver-area reserves is systematically treated by police as isolated family matters or attributed to the girls' own families, suppressing its ritualized, symbolic nature.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“It's clearly a male some kind of a ritual of maturation.”
“they systematically try to downplay this...collective ritualistic aspect of it”
“what is systematically ignored is not the brutality of the crime but the obscene cultural dimension of the crime”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk2John Boorman1Richard Branson1Fernando Pessoa1J. Doyne Farmer1Paul Fussell1Pablo Iglesias Posse1Warren Buffett1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
A male ritual of killing Native American Indian girls on Vancouver-area reserves is systematically treated by police as isolated family matters or attributed to the girls' own families, suppressing its ritualized, symbolic nature., illustrating inherent transgression,ideology
White men ritually kidnap and kill Aboriginal women near Vancouver reservations; authorities systematically downplay the collective, ritualistic character by reducing it to family violence and drugs., illustrating obscene underground,violence as cultural ritual,institutional unconscious
Young men from Vancouver ritually drive to a nearby Native reservation, gang-rape and kill Indigenous women, and are never arrested; police treat each incident as an individual family dysfunction, suppressing the cultural-ritual pattern., illustrating obscene supplement,ideology,structural violence