Portage and Main round dance celebrates guilty decision for man who killed 4 Indigenous women [Video]

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Dozens of people took to the iconic intersection of Portage and Main in Winnipeg for a round dance Thursday afternoon, hours after a serial killer was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of four women.

Earlier Thursday, Jeremy Skibicki was  found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in the 2022 deaths of three First Nations women — Morgan Harris, 39, Marcedes Myran, 26, and Rebecca Contois, 24 — as well as an unidentified woman who has been given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, by community leaders. Police have said they believe she was Indigenous and in her 20s. 

Contois was a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, also known as Crane River. Harris and Myran were both members of Long Plain First Nation.

The four first-degree murder convictions are “history-making for Indigenous people. That’s something that we don’t ever hear in court,” said Sue Caribou, an advocate …