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ZACHARY PRONG / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Calvin Clarke - Urban Warrior Alliance "We've got here Monday evening, and we set up camp, and we lit the sacred fire, and we've been here ever since. We work as a collective when it comes to activism. Our group is the Urban Warrior Alliance. We were sick of waiting for the government to fulfill the promise that they made two years ago - to have a full inquiry nation wide with the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women. And they weren't holding their word which we knew was gonna happen. So we decided, let's do something for the families because they need answers and they need closure." "The root causes, a lot of it has to do with the policing of our people, CFS (Child and Family Services) involvement. It's a hard life that some people have to live with. It's discrimination. Let's just call it what it is. They see another Indian dead or floating in the water and they don't give it as much attention as they would with anyone else. The system is broken, it ends up with murdered and missing women, children. People who go through the CFS system end up alone, they fall through the cracks. Like Tina Fontaine, they could have had her in custody four times, they had an arrest on site warrant for her. The police were in contact with her three times and once with CFS. And they let her go. She ended up dead that weekend." "It makes me angry that government is treating these families like this, that have suffered so much loss. It's a slap in our face to our people. Too bad it has to come to these things [the sit in] to draw attention to it. A lot of us have said enough, we're standing up. I just want my daughter to grow up in peace, to be treated like a regular citizen of this country like everyone else is treated. I don't want her to grow up feeling shame that she's native. I don't want her to be scared to walk to the store at night. To have the fear of getting attacked and raped and killed. I want her to grow up peacefully. That's why we're having this fight right now, so our kids won't have to." June 31, 2016.