Danita Faith BigEagle
Aliases: Tania Duck, Danita Faith Gaddie
Case reference: 2012020650
Missing since: February 11, 2007
Missing from: Regina, SK
Date of birth: March 6, 1984
Age at disappearance: 22 years
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Indigenous
Danita is a member of the Ocean Man First Nation
Eye Color: Brown
Hair: Black, Straight, Short
Height: 168 cm / 5ft 6in
Weight: 50 kgs / 110 lbs
Physical Build: Slender/Thin
Notable: Danita’s teeth are in good shape. She has a happy face with the letter “D” tattooed on the web of her right hand. She also has 4 scars on her forehead. It should also be noted that she may have shaved her eyebrows.
Danita was last seen wearing: Black jeans, white running shoes, a black toque (hat), a black quilted winter parka with a drawstring waist, and a black “Casper” T-shirt.
Details About Danita’s Case: According to the RCMP’s database Canada’s Missing, Danita was last seen in Regina on February 11, 2007 in the 800 block of Victoria Avenue. They also say that she rarely leaves Regina and is known to frequent the downtown area.
Danita is the mother of two children. Her youngest child was only 9 months old when she vanished. Danita’s mother Diane says that she reported Danita missing on February 14, 2007. The police response was that it was likely Danita was out partying and that Dianne would find her daughter before they would. They did not believe that she was missing and they had no intention of beginning to search for her. Two weeks later Diane went down to the police station and demanded that they do something – anything – to help find her daughter. She told them about her not coming home to change her clothing, eat and not picking up her money. The response to that was ‘Give us time or a place to look’. Diane was, in fact, doing their job and she told them so. She has since stopped communicating with law enforcement because they’d mock her for coming to them with the information that she had been told on the street. In 2008, Diane had received reports that Danita had been seen on the street in Winnipeg. She traveled countless times to search the streets on her own because the police wouldn’t look.
From her own investigation, Diane discovered that Danita has been seen at least three times since February 11, 2007. The first sighting was in Winnipeg where a man and woman said that Danita was at the Manwin Hotel for a couple of days, just one week before Diane arrived in the city to search for her daughter. Danita introduced herself by the name “Tania Duck.” When Diane thought back to the use of the alias, she recalled that Danita liked the name “Tania” and that Danita’s father’s nickname is John “Duck”. Another two women from Broadview, Saskatchewan, say that they met Danita at the Manwin Hotel and she introduced herself as Danita Big Eagle. They did not think anything of the meeting until they saw Danita’s missing person poster at a gas station. Danita was last seen at the Coachman Hotel in Regina. While these tips are encouraging, they have taken a toll on Diane who feels the need to personally follow up on each and every one. Equally trying are the false reports or rumors that circulate in communities that Danita has been found. When Danita’s missing person posters are taken down, searching is made even more difficult for the family and everyone else involved.
Because she was getting no support or assistance from law enforcement, Diane went to her own community for the support she needed. In 2010, Diane had received a tip that her daughter had been murdered and her remains were left in an isolated area west of Regina. Thanks to donations from family and friends across Saskatchewan, including the Ocean Man First Nation where the Big Eagles are from, a reward of $10,000 was offered to anyone with information.
And on September 3, 2010 the family organized a massive search of a 12-kilometre area west of Regina in hopes of finding evidence.
Thanks to the help of a volunteer with search dogs, a collection of women’s clothing and a single bone was found. But after police were called, investigators said the clothes were unrelated to any case of a missing person and the discovered bone belonged to an animal.
To date, Danita has not been seen or heard from and still remains missing.
Danita would be 40 years old (2024). As of right now, she’s been missing for almost 18 years.
If you have information on Danita’s case, please contact any of the following:
Regina Police Service Cold Case Unit:
Telephone: (306) 777-6500
Email: rps@reginapolice.ca
Reference Case#: RM07005298
Crime Stoppers: 1-800-222-TIPS(8477)
Online at: https://www.canadiancrimestoppers.org/submit-a-tip/submit-a-tip
Crime Stoppers provides anonymous tipping
Send email to the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains at: canadasmissing-disparuscanada@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Sources:
Regina Police Service
Canada’s Missing
CBC – Missing & Murdered: The Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls
AMMSA.COM
Justice for Native People
Someone Saw Something 
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