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The Case of Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance
📻 Episode #424
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Feb 05, 2024
About This Episode
In February of 1993, 70-year-old Anthony Dolff was found murdered in his home in Saskatchewan, Canada. That morning, indigenous sisters Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were picked up by police. The two were held at the station for five days and questioned repeatedly without counsel - even though someone else had confessed to the killing. “These…
The Case
In February of 1993, 70-year-old Anthony Dolff was found murdered in his home in Saskatchewan, Canada. That morning, indigenous sisters Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were picked up by police. The two were held at the station for five days and questioned repeatedly without counsel - even though someone else had confessed to the killing. “These were two young indigenous women trying to cope with white police officers, all male,” says their attorney, James Lockyer. “And on the basis of those unrecorded statements that the police alleged they gave, they were convicted the following year."
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00:04:34“Speaker 1: Canada's Indian residential school system, as it was called, was Speaker 1: established in the eighteen seventies with the goal of assimilating Speaker 1: indigenous children into white society. The schools were run by Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Speaker 1: and Presbyterian churches. For children like Odelia Nourissa, who had”
00:17:35“Speaker 2: original peoples are part of the continent, and you did Speaker 2: the same in your part of the continent. The RCMP Speaker 2: has in the past and still to this day, engages Speaker 2: in systemic racism towards Indigenous peoples. That's acknowledged publicly, i Speaker 2: might say, with some reluctance, but nevertheless acknowledged. The case”
00:30:31“Speaker 2: their reoffending, which automatically is then used to justify denying Speaker 2: them parole. And then when they do release you, they Speaker 2: release you on conditions that are almost bound to be violated. Speaker 2: No alcohol, no drugs, curfews, those kinds of things which Speaker 2: people who are Indigenous likely not very stable, don't have”
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