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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

Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

Book 2020

"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...