{"id":18746,"date":"2014-07-10T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T11:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18746"},"modified":"2014-07-10T18:41:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T10:41:33","slug":"honour-walk-held-in-saskatoon-for-badly-beaten-burned-homeless-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/10\/honour-walk-held-in-saskatoon-for-badly-beaten-burned-homeless-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Honour walk held in Saskatoon for badly beaten, burned homeless woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_114868591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18747\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_114868591.jpg\" alt=\"violence women abuse\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_114868591.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_114868591-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SASKATOON\u2014About 60 people in Saskatoon have participated in an Honour Walk for Marlene Bird, a homeless woman who was badly beaten in Prince Albert, Sask.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the walk was held to bring awareness to the violence that indigenous women face everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Bird, 57, was so badly burned in the attack that she had to have both legs amputated and has also had facial reconstruction surgery.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Her cousin Eldon Henderson, who is also chief of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation, says she is still recovering in an Edmonton hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He says she is able to talk and communicate with people, and is starting to realize that her legs are gone.<\/p>\n<p>Bird will remain in hospital in Edmonton for a couple more weeks before being transferred to a Saskatoon hospital for the rest of her recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson says so far the Prince Albert YWCA has collected more than $11,000 and the First Nation has collected about $2,000 to be put in a trust for Bird.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s very blessed at this point in terms of the support that she is getting,\u201d he said, adding they are still figuring out what she will need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to get a house for her that is wheelchair accessible, she\u2019s going to need that &#8230; We will have to figure out the costs associated with after care, also with some of the other things like a living allowance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SASKATOON\u2014About 60 people in Saskatoon have participated in an Honour Walk for Marlene Bird, a homeless woman who was badly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}