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Sarah deVries, is among an estimated 500 aboriginal women slain or missing in Canada over the past 15 years, according to the Native Women's Association of Canada, as well as other indigenous groups, academic reports and several Web sites dedicated to this crisis.

These are Canada's Vanishing Women, the mothers, sisters and daughters whose bodies are found frozen in the snow, by railway tracks, in fleabag hotels, along the "Highway of Tears'' in British Columbia, or, like Sarah, dead at 28, nothing more than a piece of DNA found on a B.C. pig farm.

Aboriginal women have come to believe that nobody cares, not the politicians, not the police, not the public. They call themselves the "less than'' women.