Two separate rallies in Calgary on Saturday raised awareness of issues affecting the city’s Indigenous community.
One was a walk in the Beltline area organized by the younger sister of an Indigenous woman named Jacqueline Crazybull, who was killed in a series of random stabbings in July 2007 — a nearly two-decades-old case that hasn’t yet yielded a charge.
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Her sister, Sandra Manyfeathers, said she was told by police that Crazybull had been sitting on a public bench after having visited a cousin for a meal. A group of men stopped by in a car and approached her for directions. When she came forward to help, they stabbed her and fled. The same people had also stabbed four others the same day, but only Crazybull succumbed to her injuries.
Manyfeathers has been fighting f