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Highway of Tears, a true story of racism, indifference and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Jessica McDiarmid

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Highway of Tears, a true story of racism, indifference and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Jessica McDiarmid

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrationsmapsphotographs

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Highway of Tears

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jessica McDiarmid

Sub title

a true story of racism, indifference and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

Summary

For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The corridor is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Journalist Jessica McDiarmid meticulously investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate in which Indigenous women and girls are overpoliced yet underprotected. McDiarmid interviews those closest to the victims—mothers and fathers, siblings and friends—and provides an intimate firsthand account of their loss and unflagging fight for justice. Examining the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settlers and Indigenous peoples in the region, McDiarmid links these cases to others across Canada—now estimated to number up to four thousand—contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in the country. Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for the victims and a testament to their families’ and communities’ unwavering determination to find it

Table Of Contents

A bright light -- A brick wall -- Part of you is missing -- Falling through the cracks -- The not knowing -- An inch shy of a mile -- Blatant failures -- It depends who's bleeding -- Rising tides -- Breaking a spirit -- This we have to live with every day -- Where were you twenty years ago? -- Canada's dirtiest secret -- Winding down -- The last walk

Target audience

adult

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True story of racism, indifference and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girl

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