Grace Lafond-Barr.
Indigenous men are more likely to be murdered than anyone else in Canada – possibly more than 2,000 in a 30-year period.
By Jeremy Warren, The Starphoenix,April 18, 2015
Grace Lafond-Barr believes healing starts in the home, so she moved her family to Muskeg Lake Cree Nation from Saskatoon two years ago to escape the city where murder took away her two brothers and a son.
She hopes the distance between the city and her grandkids will mean a quieter life without the spectre of violence and vice following them as they grow into young men. Lafond-Barr has seen enough of that: in 2002, her 36-year-old brother was stabbed to death; in 2011, a 15-year-old boy shot and killed her 28-year-old son; her 35-year-old halfbrother was fatally stabbed in front of their elderly father in November 2014. “It’s a heartache I don’t wish on anyone at all…
Grace Lafond-Barr. 
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