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McDiarmid, Jessica.
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First Nations women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia.
First Nations women -- Crimes against -- Canada
First Nations women -- Violence against -- British Columbia.
First Nations women -- Violence against -- Canada.
First Nations women -- British Columbia -- Social conditions.
Murder victims -- British Columbia.
Missing persons -- British Columbia.
Race relations.
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McDiarmid, Jessica.
First Nations women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia.
First Nations women -- Crimes against -- Canada
First Nations women -- Violence against -- British Columbia.
First Nations women -- Violence against -- Canada.
First Nations women -- British Columbia -- Social conditions.
Murder victims -- British Columbia.
Missing persons -- British Columbia.
Race relations.
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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.
by
McDiarmid, Jessica.
Doubleday Canada, 2019.
Call #:
362
.88082
M134h
Subjects
First Nations women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia.
First Nations women -- Crimes against -- Canada
First Nations women -- Violence against -- British Columbia.
First Nations women -- Violence against -- Canada.
First Nations women -- British Columbia -- Social conditions.
Murder victims -- British Columbia.
Missing persons -- British Columbia.
Race relations.
ISBN:
9780385687591
9780385687577 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 332 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, women--overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds--have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern B.C. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. In Highway of Tears, Jessica McDiarmid meticulously explores the effect these tragedies have had on communities in the region, and how systemic racism and indifference towards Indigenous lives have created a culture of "over-policing and under-protection," simultaneously hampering justice while endangering young Indigenous women. Highway of Tears will offer an intimate, first-hand look at the communities along Highway 16 and the families of the victims, as well as examine the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settler and Indigenous peoples that underlie life in the region. Finally, it will link these cases with others found across Canada--estimated to number over 1,200--contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in the country and of our ongoing failure to provide justice for the missing and murdered."-"--From publisher.
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