Photo: In Rankin, MMIWG inquiry hears harrowing story of life and death

Laura Mackenzie, in black, receives an eagle feather after testifying before the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls community hearing in Rankin Inlet Feb. 20. With her are inquiry counsel Lillian Aglukark-Lundrigan, centre and commissioner Qajaq Robinson, right. Mackenzie spoke about the life and death of her aunt, Betsy Kalaserk, who died in Yellowknife in 2003. Kalaserk’s husband was later convicted of criminal negligence causing her death, but Mackenzie believes its was the trauma of childhood sexual abuse that killed her aunt. Read more about the first day of hearings later on www.nunatsiaq.com. (PHOTO BY SARAH ROGERS)