Alexandra Noad

Lethbridge Herald

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

A woman whose daughter’s body was found dismembered is walking thousands of kilometres to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

According to Statistics Canada, between 2009-2021 Indigenous women represented between five to seven per cent of all homicide victims, while only representing two-three per cent of the population.

Stephanie English lost two of her daughters within a year of each other.

Joey English, one of her daughters, was reported missing on June 9, 2016 and later parts of her body were found in Crescent Heights Park in Calgary. It was later determined that she had died from an overdose, and someone had dismembered her body after her death.

English says her people, of all ages, are

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