MMIWG2S Highway of Tears Book

Name: MMIWG2S Highway of Tears Book
SKU: MMIWG2S-Highway-book
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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.

Author: Jessica McDiarmid

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SKU: MMIWG2S-Highway-book Categories: MMIWG2S, Social Awareness Books Tags: Book, Highway Of Tears, Indigenous, Indigenous Girls, Indigenous Women, Justice, MMIW, MMIWG, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Woman & Girls, RCMP, Stolen Sisters, Two-Spirit

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What is Red Dress (MMIWG2S) Day?

May 5 every year is the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG2S) in Canada. Also known as Red Dress Day. On this day in a typical year, you might notice some red dresses hanging near a church, on campus, or from someone’s balcony, and you have probably wondered what it means.

This day began as “an aesthetic response to more than 1000 missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada” by Jaime Black (Métis). It started in 2010, and also includes Trans and Two-Spirit individuals who have gone missing or have been murdered. The red dresses act as a visual reminder all of the missing women, girls, and Two-Spirit people.

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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.

Author: Jessica McDiarmid

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