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Rage Against the Machine calls for Indigenous 'land back' at Canadian show

Tim Commerford, left, Brad Wilk, Zack de la Rocha, and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine perform during the Festival d'ete de Quebec on July 16, 2022 in Quebec City. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP) Tim Commerford, left, Brad Wilk, Zack de la Rocha, and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine perform during the Festival d'ete de Quebec on July 16, 2022 in Quebec City. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
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With concerts and music festivals in full swing once again, Rage Against the Machine is using the stage to highlight injustices against Indigenous people in Canada.

While performing at this year鈥檚 Bluesfest last Friday in Ottawa, the U.S. rap-rock band displayed statistics on the violence experienced by Indigenous community members across the country.

鈥淎n Indigenous person in Canada is over 10 times more likely to be shot and killed by a police officer than a white person is,鈥 read a screen behind the band during the show, citing an analysis conducted by CTV News.

The band also highlighted statistics involving missing and murdered Indigenous women at the annual music festival in Ottawa.

鈥淚n Canada, Indigenous women and girls are 16 times more likely to be murdered or to disappear than white women are,鈥 concert-goers were able to read at another point during the show.

Violence against Indigenous women has been a longstanding issue in Canada, with advocates calling on the federal government to do more to prevent their deaths. A report published in 2019 as a result of a national inquiry said the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada amounts to a 鈥済enocide.鈥

Other phrases were also displayed behind the band as they played, including 鈥淪ettler-colonialism is murder,鈥 and 鈥淟and Back.鈥

The politically outspoken group recently to criticize the Supreme Court鈥檚 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, removing the constitutional right to abortion.

鈥淔orced birth in a country where Black birth-givers experience maternal mortality two to three times higher than that of white birth-givers,鈥 the screen read for several seconds during a concert in Wisconsin on July 9. The band cited .

Their performance in Ottawa was one of the band鈥檚 first live shows after more than a decade. The four-member group also performed in Quebec City on Saturday night and will be continuing their with dates in Hamilton, Ont. and Toronto this week.

With files from CNN.

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