Title 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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New York : Atria Books, 2019.

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Canton Public Library - Adult Department	362.8808 MCDIARMID	Check Shelf
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Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction	364.1523 MCD	Missing
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Edition	First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Description	xiii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-321) and index.
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.
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.
Subject	Indigenous women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia -- Prevention.
	Indigenous women -- Violence against -- British Columbia.
	Indigenous women -- Violence against -- British Columbia -- Prevention.
	Missing persons -- British Columbia, Northern.
	Murder victims -- British Columbia, Northern.
	Indigenous women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia, Northern.
	Canada -- Race relations.
	Native women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia
	Native women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia -- Prevention
	Native women -- Violence against -- British Columbia
	Native women -- Violence against -- British Columbia -- Prevention
	Native women -- British Columbia -- Social conditions
	Indigenous women -- British Columbia -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form	True crime stories.
ISBN	9781501160288 (hardcover)
	1501160281 (hardcover)

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