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Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett will begin meeting with the families of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Yellowknife and Whitehorse this week, to consult on the nature and scope of the upcoming public inquiry. According to Margaret Buist, director general of the “pre-inquiry” process, members of her department will simultaneously be travelling across the country asking the families of indigenous women, “What would you like to see happen with this inquiry?”

While the government is soliciting opinions from certain indigenous families, others are doing just about everything they can just to have their voices heard. Among them is a Manitoba mother who has been looking for her child, who disappeared in November 2014 at the age of 26. The only problem is: her child is male.

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Lydia Daniels has been looking for her son, Colten Pratt, who is Ojibway and Dakota, for more than a year. Recently, she started her own grassroots campaign to raise awareness about Canada’s missing aboriginal men by tying neckties around bridges in her community of Long Plain First Nation, as well as in downtown Winnipeg. Daniels said she got the idea for what she calls the “Men’s Neck Tie Awareness Campaign” from the Red Cloth Ribbon Campaign, which also originated in Manitoba to raise awareness for missing and murdered aboriginal women.