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Sarah Nowrakudluk of Inukjuak joins Am I Next? campaign

Sarah Nowrakudluk of Inukjuak, Que., has joined the "Am I Next?" campaign, which uses powerful images to push for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.

No justice for sister who was found murdered in the St. Lawrence River in Montreal in 1994

Sarah Nowrakudluk shared this photo on social media, as part of the "Am I Next?" campaign. Nowrakudluk, whose sister was murdered in Montreal, hopes the campaign will help prompt a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. (Sarah Nowradkudluk/Facebook)

Sarah Nowrakudluk of Inukjuak, Que., has joined the "Am I Next?" campaign, which uses powerful images to push for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.

She says her sister was found dead in 1994, at age 35, in the St. Lawrence River in Montreal.

Her hands and legs were bound and her throat was slit. She had been missing for a month.

Nowrakudluk says whoever committed the crime is still free today.

Theres no justice, she says. She had lots of friends, she had a big family and we lost her.

The hard part was that we lived in Inukjuak and she died in Montreal. We couldnt afford to go to Montreal. We couldnt even go look.

Nowrakudluk says the Quebec Police investigated her sister's disappearance, but her body was eventually found by someone fishing.

Now Nowrakudluk is the one living in Montreal and she says she does not want to live in fear of "being the next victim."

She wants to see changes in the way justice is done, so that the disappearance of aboriginal women gets equal attention to women of other races.

I think they just dont care about native people, she says. Were treated really differently.