'Highway of Tears' proves yet again that our marginalized communities are over-policed and under-protected, and it is as captivating as it is thought-provoking.
proves yet again that our marginalized communities are over-policed and under-protected, and it is as captivating as it is thought-provoking.
“The problem with ‘MMIWG’ is that it’s an acronym which takes away from the humanity of the issue. When we see these huge numbers, such as 1,200 missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada, it minimizes the fact that every single one of those individual numbers is a devastating loss to the world, their families, and communities. So, what I wanted to do with this book was personalize those stories.
“It is a fact that indigenous people in Canada are far more likely to face violence than any other group. Indigenous women are six times more likely to be murdered than white women. As mentioned, a lot of this stems from risk factors which resulted from colonialism: factors such as mental illness, homelessness, poverty, marginalization. But studies have been conducted where they removed the risk factors to try to determine whether race alone was the cause and found that it was.
“Nicole's family quickly became aware of the difference of responses and went to great lengths to draw attention to the other missing girls’ cases. But it really highlighted the inherent racism in these contrasting responses. These attitudes haven’t changed; in 2011 a white woman went missing in a highway area and immediately there was an enormous reward for finding her, billboards were erected, and it was on the national news.
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