Hi - this is a great post - I really like articles that dig a bit into data, like this, to reveal some more telling details. The focus on the "Acquaintance" category is really valuable, because it suggests that indigenous women's families are actually supporting them (or at least not killing them!), while the people that their lives end up bringing them in contact with - those people are dangerous. It makes us focus, I hope, on how our society shapes aboriginal women's lives. I did note something that I think isn't backed up by the numbers that are on display, and you might want to rephrase. At the end, you have a graph of female homicide rates, broken out by aboriginal and non-aboriginal. Then you say the overall proportion is increasing. However, if we use the numbers from the graph, we have ratios of 6.7 - 4.9 - 6.6 - 4.9, which certainly seems to be showing no particular trend at all. I understand, I think. The graph shows *rates*, while your text talks about a *proportion of the overall* homicides (and since homicides overall are decreasing, that can have some odd effects). I just thought that you should either cite some numbers, or have the text mention the graph, or something, because when I first read it, it looked like it was just wrong, until I realized the difference between what the graph showed and the text said. Thanks again for a valuable contribution on this topic. Ashley