We provide advocacy and support to all family members and friends that have lost a loved one to violence. In , CSFS took part in a symposium to raise public awareness and create a call for action. Each of these recommendations come first from the understanding that the communities along the highway share a situation of colonization resulting in experiences of poverty, violence, cultural genocide, residential school impacts, addictions and displacement from land.
The man accused of killing indigenous victim Cindy Gladue will face a new trial for manslaughter. The case unleashed public outrage over how Cindy was treated by Canada's criminal justice system. His hair is covered by a black and white bandana and a cap. His trademark attire - black leather and black and white flannel - bear the markings that distinguish him as a nomad - a Crazy Indian Brotherhood nomad.
The Crazy Indian Brotherhood started in Winnipeg, Manitoba in and now has chapters throughout Canada and to the south as far as California and Oklahoma. It resembles a motorcycle gang, but Mike says the tough image is just for appearances.
We patrol the streets looking out for the vulnerable. Mike Balczer talks about the death of his year-old daughter, Jessica Patrick. The drive from Vancouver, B. From there, a western turn along Highway 16 to the port city of Prince Rupert is another eight hours.
It is that final mile kilometer section of winding, mostly two-lane highway between those two cities — through mountain passes, dozens of tiny villages, countless lakes and a whole lot of wilderness — that has become known as the Highway of Tears. The remoteness of the highway, coupled with the fact that it bisects so many remote Indigenous communities without access to adequate transportation — often used by young Indigenous women hitchhiking simply as a means of getting from one place to another along the long, lonely road — makes it a ripe ground for violence.
You can drive for 15 minutes and not see a car. There are rivers and mountains. You get a young girl hitchhiking and no one's around In October , Gloria Moody , a year-old mother of two and a member of the Bella Coola Indian Reserve of the Nuxalk Nation , was found dead along one of the Highway of Tears roads, naked, beaten and sexually assaulted.
Over the next almost 40 years, 17 other women became victims along the highway. Her almost-unrecognizable body was discovered on an embankment of Highway 16 in February , eight days after she went missing. But now, more than 15 years after Auger's body was found, barely a handful of police are still actively involved. No one has been added to the list since Auger, in All the files, officially, remain open.
But Clary has been forthright in informing the victims' families that many of the cases may never be solved. Fowler, suspected in at least two other Highway of Tears cases, died in an Oregon prison in , before the connection in the MacMillen case was solidified. In , authorities also got a murder conviction in the case of Monica Jack. The year-old girl went missing in , but her remains weren't found until That ruling is under appeal.
And we've used everything in our toolkit that we can," Clary adds. It's still ongoing, but The recommendations include measures like better transportation options, increased police patrols, the establishment of awareness and prevention programs among at-risk women and their families, a wide-ranging media campaign and emergency readiness plans. Yet the violence against Indigenous women, all across Canada, continues.
Even just this year alone, we've had three former clients go missing, you know?
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