The Highway of Tears...this is the first I've heard of this road and it's difficult to listen to these cold cases and missing girls, but I couldn't imagine living it. What a nightmare and then no answers. No closure. How does one live with a hole in your heart so void?! 🙏 These beautiful people deserve tireless efforts from the police. Thank you for such an interesting documentary.
I absolutely agree nurse terra. What a cruel world we live in. The darkest hole I don't want to ever imagine or experience. Rest in peace beautiful people. I am so sorry this happened to them.
If women are leaders in their communities then the power holding classes in Canada will target them to either kill or control them so First Nations people don't have strong leadership. If the leaders are men, then the young men will be targeted..What do they not understand???
@@ΝίκηΧανδρή So, your logic being that because you think women are the leaders in First Nations communities, their communities are not lead properly, therefore their young daughters are murdered by those outside of their community.. because others see their indigenous culture as weak? How do you then explain high numbers of women being trafficked, abused, sold into arranged marriages, murdered, and missing in predominantly patriarchal communities/societies as well?
@@ΝίκηΧανδρή My point being the issue isn't with the culture or how others view the culture, how Canada views First Nations, because there are these issues everywhere regardless of the culture of those indigenous communities. The issue is that there are cruel, violent, sadistic individuals who just want to harm others for their own gain.
24:44 why the hell would she leave an intoxicated child by themselves on the side of the road? Even if the child isn’t ours, it’s still our responsibility as adults to protect them.
I believe if you don't attend to the needs of a child when they are in need,it will one day come back to you. Somehow nature finds it's way back to you
I was totally unaware of how many First Nation women go missing. Thank You for bringing attention to this atrocity, my sympathies to the families & communities. I urge everyone to share this.
@@northscrow9316 I found out the same thing is still happening in the States, the government, law enforcement & the media turn a blind eye to these facts. That’s a disgrace and isn’t acceptable. God Bless
@@northscrow9316 I agree with you, the truth as kept silent or told in very small fragments, and a lots folks have been told to keep silent, Take Good Care of Yourself and Your Family.
This could be said about any criminal no criminal thinks they're going to be caught while they're committing a crime it's time to think outside the box the problem is you people don't take care of your woman and you let them wander drunk on the highway why aren't you being more protective of your women this has been something throughout history we protect our women that's what men do
@@ann-mariepaliukenas19 yes but cameras and a bus that runs more than 2x a day is needed around the rezs into the city, where most of the hickhiking happens. There's really no excuse, this has been going on far too long. I domt think anyone's expecting the whole highway in cameras. But more can be done.
Chris do you have any idea how remote this is.....you can go for miles and miles seeing no one...how the heck are they going to put phones in the middle of nowhere
@CaliN8tv Sd you are so right! Investigate!!! f'n RMCP get your heads out of your asses and do your jobs investigate. one town 2 women go missing native women murdered no real investigation. they felt she was on a drunk. white women goes missing huge investigation she was gone like 2 weeks. left her farm with animals. the white women was on a party, wtf. the native mom was pissed write a letter to the paper and posted on facebook!
I’m only 5 minutes into this documentary and the mother speaking has such a safe, loving aura about her. So much so that it stood out enough for me to pause the video and make this comment. Bless her.. I hope she has some answers for her daughter soon.
Good Mother's always know where their daughters are and good Mothers can get ahold of their daughters on their cell phone if she was a good mother why wasn't she a good mother when her daughter disappeared this loving or if you're talking about is brought about by the death of her daughter I don't think it's a loving aura I think it's the aura of despair realizing she should have done better to protect her daughter it is not up to the police it's family looking after family that's been the basis of our society
I had a native wife for 7 years and I found her mothering instincts were not very good she regularly let my daughter disappear and didn't try and find where she went I find this to be terrible I find this to be one of the reasons why children disappear indifference towards your own children because of the difficulty in raising them and in most cases single parent family in Aboriginal situations
This breaks my heart for those parents. My daughter was almost trafficked. Her and a friend answered a newspaper ad for fun and travel took a bus paid for by that company. They traveled from Texas to Kentucky. When they got to the bus stop in Kentucky and picked up they were taken to a cheap motel and separated. Allowed one phone call to parents with a handler over their shoulder. I could tell something was wrong right away and called the police there. We had to get a private detective from our area to work with them. It's a long story but we finally got them back with help of police depts in both states and the pvt. Det, and lots of prayers. It can happen to anyone and anywhere, especially nowadays. Girls please be careful and be aware of your surroundings.
USE YOUR CIGARETTES. EVEN A SIMPLE REQUEST WITH EACH PUFF. YOU DO NOT NEED FANCY PRAYERS. USE THE TOBACCO ... IT WILL ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS AND BE YOUR VOICE.
Cameras need to go up on the vulnerable roads. They seem to put them everywhere so why not there! Its shocking how you people have been treated and so little done to find answers to your missing and murdered girls, ✨
Didn't like that , You people?? Seriously?? Don't know if that was your intention, but Jilly, you can do better than that, , be good to yourself and to others, be safe 😷 and be woke¡
There’s not even greyhound service anymore so camera’s and the people to monitor them are highly unlikely. This is small town Canada, not like the lower 48 where you can’t drive a mile without seeing a light from a human. In between these towns without the highway might as well be the 1800’s .
“When you grow up a girl, your freedom is limited on all sides.” This is so true, I’ve had many scares in my life as many girls and women do. It’s sad and I think when you’re young you don’t think that the worst can happen to you. I’m a Mom to boys, now grown, and I always told them the danger of other people. Some parents don’t do that and they need to in order to help keep their children safe in this world. Teach children to always be aware. ⚛️
@@meredithmacdonald4996 Thats some magical thinking you got there! if ONLY the world would change to make me happy, eh? The world is the way it is and first we need to accept & adapt to it. if one CAN make a change thats great! Accept & adapt, thats all anyone can do!
Because most of them are solopsistic narcissists, not enlightened compassionate, considerate, and caring. In some cases politicians are complete sociopaths and psychopaths. Those are the people that seek power and control. The reason I didn't reenlist in the Marine corps is because they use us to fight senseless battles against an enemy that has no choice but to fight against tyrants. Most people just want to live in peace and enjoy their friends and family, it's the small portion of unsettled souls that have a desire to seek out and destroy.
I have only compassion for these women, the human beings that are victimized for living. However, this reporter was so obviously biased it takes away from these women are pleading for. They are pleading for help, this reporter is looking to place blame.
Im from the yukon and this has been a living nightmare. Us women talked about it a lot. I think the last time i checked in there was the possibility of multiple killers. I cant watch it now but i will when im stronger.
Don't hitchhike , make a plan, don't get drunk, let someone know where you are going, take some personal responsibility to protect yourself. There are a lot of creeps out there that will pray on the weak. You gotta take precautions. Not saying what happened to these girls is their fault. Gotta be responsible for yourself and your safety.
This is the second documentary i’ve seen with Emy Koopman and she does an excellent job of telling a story through the documentary medium. I’m glad I subscribed to this channel.
Hello, I am a woman from Germany. And it hurts my heart when I see how the indigenous people are treated there. I am a mother myself. A child, a boy, was taken away from me by the state. I lost a child before it was born. I still have a little 2 year old girl, her name is Cheyenne. I sympathize with every mother there. Warm greetings from Germany .
It was interesting watching the memorial parade. The ceremonies were a mix of Catholic prayer and Native American drumming and singing. They sing an old Native song and don't understand the exact meaning of the words of their ancestors as the indigenous languages of their people have been forgotten. Sad. I hope all Native peoples of North America can one day regain their past glory.
tobacco still works. even a simple request as the smoke rises with each puff will answer all your questions. otherwise tobacco just kills you and robs you of your physical body. give some respect to this simple herb and it will solve your every problem. there is an ear for your requests.
I'm from the area. The song they were singing is from another nation that was given to us to use. So we can't translate it because we don't speak thier language. We still have lot of our people who speak the language to know our songs.
Kudo to the mayor for his effort in dealing with the issues. I live in a country (my adopted country), that even though there are still issues to be solved especially racism, we are blessed our government is constantly working alongside our indigenous people to find solutions. R.I.P. to all the forgotten beautiful sisters and may the Lord continue to bring comfort to the grieving parents & families affected.
This is so disgusting that the government don’t take these people seriously. These people are the First Nation and they should have more input. The government forgets that they are not true Canadians. These people are the true leaders, yet they are treated like they are immigrants. My heart breaks for them...
Well, get ready, bcuz of Agenda 2031 - & likely loong b4, the Natives WILL have ALL their land back, & the positions will then be totally reversed!!...FACT!!
Yeah well don't worry. It's not just them the government doesn't care about. Remember how they handled the freedom convoy? They used racism to keep us separated and convinced some of us that we matter and they only really care about/have set things up, for "us". But it's not true.
Unresolved trauma, disconnection from the sacred, racism and substance abuse. I don't care who you are or where you're from, that's a recipe for high risk behaviour. These girls played the ultimate price for all of it. R.I.P sweet girls, you deserved so much better 💔
I left Smithers in 1999... Up until I left, each time one of these poor girls went missing it was such a haunting feeling. All you could do was think about them and who among us could’ve done such a horrid thing. It kept happening and Every-time I drove on that highway I thought of them and how isolated and vast it is, who would know, who would see. It’s Heart just breaking to see this is still happening, what’s even sadder is that I recognize Jessica’s aunt... yet another person affected by these tragedies. That damn place...
these people seem to have a similar plight as the indigenious people of Australia, where they were broken as peoples in colonial times and now with this next generation they are in a recovery stage trying to re-build their culture in order the for their young and upcoming generation to stand on their own feat
Oh we stand just fine. We've been standing here since the mastadon were not the ones who will be going anywhere. Our culture is very alive and well. Over 8 million indigenous people left here. We have political strengths and powers that are never spoken of the way these stories are. This is more white supremist brainwash that is doing nothing more than convincing observers that we had our land taken and culture broken. This bias lens must be shattered eventually. -2 dead owls
@@ShadeRaven222 That's just BS. When you take land and lose language, you lose culture. That just a given. I've been on community all over Australia and although where I live in the NT, culture is strong, there are some serious social issues that need to be addressed. So much culture HAS been lost to so many all over this country. Fragments exist amongst those in the south, those in the north keep it strong. In the south, indigenous live like white people, and say our culture is strong pffft. Thing is these are the same people pulling other Indigenous down that talk about the real issues for those still living with theirs. Alcoholism, violence, sexual assaults, incest, poverty, poor health outcomes, poor education, less access to employment and then there are cultural values within culture that are causing issues like altruism. Who is really white washing the truth here ?? I love our Indigenous, I respect and help them every day, but maybe I see more than you do. There is much work to do, although not without great hope Australian Indigenous culture like so many others is definitely a culture in crisis.
@@delishme2 serious issues here too with drugs, alcohol, domestic abuse, child abuse and murder, but it is so much easier to blame white people instead of looking at what is going wrong in your own culture.
@@jillgarlick2122 Honestly, there could have been some Indigenous men who could have killed some of these women. However, systemic racism, colonization, genocide have contributed to Indigenous women being 6x to go missing or murdered. How are people supposed to heal when their culture was forcibly stripped away from them due to White settlers coming in and stealing your people's lands? Let's not forget that the federal government allowed Indigenous children to be forcibly removed by the RCMP to attend church-run residential schools. These prison-like institutions were corrupt to the core and were riddled with rampant sexual abuse, neglect, and murder. Often, children were told their way of life and culture was satanic or that their parents were demonic and unable to care for them. Spending 10 years of your life removed from your culture and forced to assimilate into a society that hates your very people creates negative displacement and self-loathing emotions. Trauma lingers on for life, and if all you were shown as a child was abuse, the likelihood of the cycle ending is slim to none. It can take upwards of 7 generations for the effects of genocide to end. Indigenous women's miss treatment by both Indigenous men and White men is due to racism and misogyny. Before being colonized, man Indigenous cultures were egalitarian and matriarchal. Unfortunately, after colonizers came, they started imposing their patriarchal way of life on the Indigenous communities to assimilate them. Indigenous women weren't even recognized as Indigenous according to the Indian Act of 1864. Indigenous women would lose their status if they married into another band or married a white man; white women were given full Indian status if they married an Indigenous man. In the past, Indigenous women weren't allowed to be elected as a band council member or weren't given permission to vote or engage in banc council decisions. In modern Canada, there has been minimal change done to fully address the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women except for the National Inquiry into the murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls group and the Truth and Reconciliation report of 2015 core reasons behind the alarming statistics. I apologize for the rambling, but I thought it was necessary to share some facts contributing to chronic problems that face Indigenous people in Canada. Since its inception, the Canadian government (both provincially and federally) has worked hard to assimilate Indigenous people into Canadian society. This has resulted in abhorrent treatment towards Indigenous people, everything from residential schools, which primary purpose was to "Save the child, Kill the Indian," reservations were given to them because of the expansion of Canadian lands. More Indigenous children are in foster care than in residential school; experts have argued that foster care is akin to residential school 2.0. It's fairly straightforward that many people in mainstream society don't give a fuck about the Indigenous struggle and blame them for creating a toxic culture. However, the federal government is to blame for continually not helping their community out by deliberately reducing the budget for services. Racism and the people who have held power in Canada are the core cause as to why Indigenous people continue to struggle today.
@@florjean965 but how is continual blaming of life events that are long gone helping the young women? Killers target the vulnerable in society, and the parents’ alcoholism , drug use etc. is just continuing the cycle of making their children vulnerable, and showing the world that they are incapable of overcoming their past and showing their children that there is no hope, just blaming everything except their own failings. No wonder the girls feel unsupported and hopeless. The past is the past, the present is all that is real and the future depends upon making better choices for their children and becoming involved in a life other than alcohol and drugs. Of course it is hard, but if things are to change, it is almost entirely up to them.
If this is the first time you've heard of this you've been living under a rock. There is countless docs about the highway of tears. I'm glad you're finally awake about what has been happening there. Please continue your concern and share this story with others who might not know.
The residential schools have always been a difficult thing for me. Just last summer my friend from Rosebud Reservation (in South Dakota, USA) showed videos of three children brought home from Carlisle in Pennsylvania. The young people of the tribe carried these children to their graves and placed them in the graves. I cried so hard. My husband's father was an inmate at Carlisle. It makes me sick to my stomach. NO APOLOGY, without actions to back it will EVER be enough, if even then.
Yes, why not have traffic enforcement cameras along the road at intersections as a way to track license plates and to act as a deterrent (posting signs notifying there are cameras on the road)? This is done in some countries.
That's ridiculous. You cant have cameras everywhere. Who pays for that? Who pays for the police to work on all these cold cases? You all bitch about taxes but then you want your government to do more. You cant have it both ways. There will always be people who murder, blame them. If it pisses you off get off your ass and do something about it.
I have to wonder if pervs and traffickers are drawn there because it has become a perfect hunting ground. If this is the case then it would be very hard to pin any particular person or group down. No, I'm not offering this as an excuse for the Canadian govt and the RCMP. They most certainly haven't done enough and their silence on the subject is peculiar, open case or no.
We can talk about the systematic annihilation of First Nation people. Starting in the years of the conquest until now. One very important tool has been alcohol, followed by drugs and then the disappearance of women. How many?
I live in this area in one of the communities and I am on highway 16 all the time. I personally do not think it is a wise idea to go walking on this highway it such a long lonely stretch of highway anything can happen. Apparently now men are going missing. We were just talking at work about the women missing on the highway and it is amazing how many people are affected by this and you would never know until conversations come up.
no one gonna care for men going missing though, umm yeah new flash this also happens to me, not as much but it happens, but not one shows concerns on that, it always just focused on women.
That’s horrible! Those poor families suffering! I can’t believe law enforcement isn’t putting their full effort & resources into this. It doesn’t matter what race, color, gender, rich or poor these are human beings, we’re all brothers & sisters in this world!
The police is killing us too and covering it. The RCMP was made to put us in rezs. Its been like this for 100's of years, nothing will chance until they start listening but it'd easier to stay ignorance and ignore it until another child like poor little Tina gets murdered because the system failed her.
These cases break my heart and the pain you can hear in all their voices- it literally makes me sick to my stomach. I'm sending so much love to these families.
What an eye opening documentary. I am so angry that the RCMP detachment in Smithers treated these missing women with such disrespect! The bottom line here is that we are all human...all brothers and sisters. I was taught to treat others as I wanted to be treated. Women of Smithers and elsewhere, stay strong. God bless you all!
I feel ur pain hun my best friend and GF was missing for months until she was found in pieces .. Had to identify her by DNA because her head hands and feet were missing.. A local officer was implemented and failed a lie detector test but was never charged .. It breaks my heart every day over and over again it never gets easier !!!!
This is heartbreaking and it's true these precious women deserve and are worthy of everyone caring and it needs to be all over the media and police to put just as much time as they would if it was a girl from college all women matter
Wonderful film! Thank you for introducing me to a subject I had know so little about. Poignant. The ferocity with which the people in this film care for one another is remarkable, living and deceased.
Why? because its her job, she's not out there driving people around for fun or volunteering her time to babysit people making bad choices, she's earning her living. If she said to the drunk girls "no don't hitch hike, its dangerous", it would most likely have fallen on deaf ears because they had already decided what they wanted to do. If they did listen and change their mind, of course she would have driven them elsewhere. She is also vulnerable to being ripped off by passengers refusing to pay, being robbed or attacked by passengers (including drunk girls). So, she takes a risk herself while trying to earn a living for her family. I think singling out the cab driver to criticise her is unfair, and unrealistic. She is not responsible for those girls' choices. What can be done to help them make safer choices, to not take such risks? I think they addressed that question a bit in the film, which was very moving and painful, and really only scratches the surface of the trauma and disadvantage indigenous people must deal with.
As I just wrote. A guy told me about this highway 14 years ago!! He nearly turned pale in telling me, of the bodies and missing. He was in the Nakusp area. His concern, from his heart too. Come on, DNA etc. They should be solving it. He thought it could be truckers going north, or Prince Rupert. But to have this known for dead women! Those girls looked so wholesome. I was staying at hostels, and have blond hair. I feel sorry for this kind community . I wish this never happened to them, my regards to all.
To Lita! I am stating, just saying, I am not prejudiced! That is why I mentioned blond!!! As I wrote elsewhere, ::: why couldn't casino money contribute money for a bus? I don't gamble. Sooooo alllll the big money going through casinos = regular and Indian casinos = in BC and Canada. Or even donation buckets/ with info and photos! ===: There for this need.and consider wasted money thrown away so to speak by casino playing.... by the way, I took the bus before from prince George to prince Rupert! Seemed like an eternity, so lonely, yes.
I lived in Prince George, which is at one end of the Highway of Tears. Coworkers described a police officer, who did not know the intercom was on, telling a First Nations woman that she was "Nothing but a little whore" etcetera. Another coworker had a friend who was in the back seat of a police cruiser that was driving him out of town on Foothills road, in the middle of winter, at night. When he told the Police that he had texted his wife where they were taking him, they quietly turned the car around and brought him back to the city and let him out without a word. UHNBC, the hospital in P.G. is also notoriously racist and contributes to the systemic racism. In the neighborhood I lived in, there was an older man who seemed very practiced and decisive about approaching indigenous individuals of both genders who seemed quite childlike. When he noticed me watching him, he quickly pulled a U-turn and let the woman out (who sounded like an 8-year-old). When he noticed me writing down his license plate number as he approached a male teenager (who looked like a 10-year-old), he sped away and I never saw him again. Prince George is quite racist and it is not a coincidence that it is the beginning of the Highway of Tears.
I didn't know anything about the Highway of Tears until my cousins told me to look it up on UA-cam. Seeing this is so heartbreaking. I feel so much for those families. They deserve answers and indigenous people should be treated a whole lot better. The police just don't seem to care about indigenous people. It is so wrong they are being failed in every possible way,
They don't care about us NGL the rcmp and other police like the opp has been behind a lot of our missing and murdered too. When we go missing they dgaf and they they find our skulls and bones and they still dgaf it turns into a cold case.
This is absolutely heart breaking. Something really needs to be done about this. There really is no justice in this world. So much evil is going unpunished. My heart goes out to all the families of these beautiful souls.
Thank you for uploading this. I saw Merc's video earlier this week on the matter which detailed the victims and yours told me about the victims families. How they are doing and what they are trying to do
My heart breaks for the community. We need mass searches so this stops. I can’t believe nobody cares about this I can’t stop crying. I can’t believe I live in this world I don’t want to be here anymore
What a terrible thing for all the beautiful Indigenous women on this stretch of highway. I am a Christian white woman that has nothing but love and respect for these peoples of our land. Their ways are so very interesting and can be extremely helpful with their knowledge of herbs, gatherings of wild edibles and such. It is paramount that the individual(s) are found that have taken the lives of these precious girls over the years. One would think that some knowledge concerning their disappearances has been established and with the latest technologies something would direct towards a break in this ongoing crime. I am very fond of their many talents and beautiful crafts owned by these folks. May God help and protect these beautiful women. Further, my heart aches for these extremely sad stories of their past, what they endured at the hands of our government. It created the problems that these people carry today. One day, by God's grace and mercy these people will get retribution for all that they have endured.
Even when someone was arrested and jailed, a bunch more girls went missing!! I think its a family of killers out there!!!!! WE REMEMBER YOU GIRLS!!!! LOVE YOU!!!
I live in Vancouver BC Canada and know all too well about these murders. Police are slow when trying to solve these. Just like Picktons. How many woman have to die until this horrific nightmare is finally solved. Is the murderer a member of the RCMP? They don’t want to talk that’s for sure.
It is lower crime than many other places, I think their law enforcement is tremendously biased, the RCMP I feel are poorly trained and inexperienced with this type of violent crime, also I think they don't care about first nations people , absolutely cameras need to be placed all along the hiway of tears, emergency phone boxes as well, I think an indigenous volunteer citizens patrol could be extremely effective, like the guardian angels on the New York subways in the 70's, saved lives, deterred crime
My heart tells me the person responsible for these crimes is a trusted individual from your own community. Look deeply into thy neighbour’s eyes. You will know when you see evil.....you will see through the eye’s of the lives taken.
This is terribly sad and breaks my heart but the assumption that it was white people and not native men in at least some cases is not really a logical assumption.
Natives say the same thing in Montana. I found that surprising and not reasonable either. Lots of meth, alcoholism and other drugs on the reservations. It is a very dangerous world for all women and children.
Can you blame them for accusing the white man? Being a white man I know the history of what we did to aboriginal peoples. Sure, there are obviously native men who do these things, but I don't blame them for looking at us.
Im from Ireland and have known of all the young women disappearing over there,i think its a national scandal and the politicians should be ashamed that this is still happening.
There is probably a serial killer. As the policeman said, it's very difficult to solve stranger-on-stranger murder. One possible way, is if a vary brave police woman acted as a decoy, posing as a hitch-hiker, maybe eventually they would catch the guy.
First Nation communities-shame on you for not taking control of your own lives and endlessly dlaming others for your own problems, get your shit together like the rest of us have to!.
I spent many years in Indian reserve what I have noticed is when people leave the reserve they don't try and stay in contact they seem to fall off of the edge of the Earth and drunken women late at night trying to get a ride on the highway is never a good idea it could happen to anyone it doesn't have to be Aboriginal I feel the Aboriginal people are not doing a very good job at protecting their women anymore otherwise why wouldn't the chief of those reserves have a bus driving on the highway for rides for people there's endless amounts of money supply to the Aboriginal Community they just chose to buy new winter tires for their cousins instead of doing something purposeful with the money
@@davidhoogendyke2774 EXACTLY! I agree with you! I was thinking the same thing! Enough of these “I am a victim” bullocks. The Canadian government is doing more than expected. The Government has given these people public apologies on several occasions live on national television. The government provides these people with endless opportunities and money in good faith that these people will get their ducks in a row and they will live a good quality of life. The majority of these people, choose to waste and abuse all this help they are getting from our tax dollars on booze, drugs and tobacco... Then they pull out the victim card... What else should the government do for this ungrateful bunch? These people are complaining about their standard of living. They should go to a 3rd world country in Africa, where fresh clean water is scarce, nutritional food is unaffordable. No access to a basic medical facility. Overall, basic human needs to live with dignity are not met. Shame on these indigenous groups for hitchhiking for a bottle of booze and a pack of cigarettes despite knowing all the risks. Shame on the people for playing the victim card.
I think multiple truckers a ton of em from 1969 till now have been kidnapping and killing girls . I certainly think there’s a deranged cult mindset back then in truckers across the highway of tears. God these cases are so crazy it’s unbelievable
None of these women and girls were killed by colonialism. They were killed by a person or persons unknown as yet. Find the killer and stop making excuses.
You haven’t heard? It’s popular nowadays to point the finger at another race these days instead of facing the problem or task at hand silly! Just turn on the news and see for yourself! 🤗🤓🤣
So sad, how many indigenous people have to solve their own cases. Even when evidence is taken to the police, and police turn away. Indigenous peoples are the strongest people on this land. 🙏
First Nations have to learn to start at home with fixing their own problems, and maybe begin by joining the 21st century. Scrap the Indian Act and modernize.
Several first nations women who reside along the stretch of highway known as the highway of tears, documented complains through local media in an desperate effort to protect them self's from harm. Each of them testified to very similar accusations of sexual assault and threats to their lives. One of the victims explained that two RCMP officers raped her and told to keep it to her self or she would disappear. Even though RCMP officers and RCMP officials where found blameworthy for the same criminal conduct towards their own female officers,they manage to get away with an out of court settlement, payed by the tax payers. Government response was to callously inform the first nation victims that they would first have to report their complains to the RCMP before government officials would even consider offering them protection.
The Highway of Tears...this is the first I've heard of this road and it's difficult to listen to these cold cases and missing girls, but I couldn't imagine living it. What a nightmare and then no answers. No closure. How does one live with a hole in your heart so void?! 🙏 These beautiful people deserve tireless efforts from the police. Thank you for such an interesting documentary.
I absolutely agree nurse terra. What a cruel world we live in. The darkest hole I don't want to ever imagine or experience. Rest in peace beautiful people. I am so sorry this happened to them.
its going on all over north America not just the high way. Canada US Mexico lac of investigation
If women are leaders in their communities then the power holding classes in Canada will target them to either kill or control them so First Nations people don't have strong leadership. If the leaders are men, then the young men will be targeted..What do they not understand???
@@ΝίκηΧανδρή So, your logic being that because you think women are the leaders in First Nations communities, their communities are not lead properly, therefore their young daughters are murdered by those outside of their community.. because others see their indigenous culture as weak?
How do you then explain high numbers of women being trafficked, abused, sold into arranged marriages, murdered, and missing in predominantly patriarchal communities/societies as well?
@@ΝίκηΧανδρή My point being the issue isn't with the culture or how others view the culture, how Canada views First Nations, because there are these issues everywhere regardless of the culture of those indigenous communities.
The issue is that there are cruel, violent, sadistic individuals who just want to harm others for their own gain.
My heart breaks for these families, especially these poor mothers.
feel the same
24:44 why the hell would she leave an intoxicated child by themselves on the side of the road? Even if the child isn’t ours, it’s still our responsibility as adults to protect them.
You know what...that was my exact question!! Why on earth would she do that, shrug her shoulders and say ‘not my problem’!!
A child is the most important thing in life. They are our future. Those that disregard a young life, are themselves not deserved of their life.
Very true
I believe if you don't attend to the needs of a child when they are in need,it will one day come back to you.
Somehow nature finds it's way back to you
Have a teenager. Sometimes no matter what you tell them or example you set. Teenagers make conflicting choices.
I lived in Smithers 20 years ago. My son was born there. Peace and Love to my people there...and all of the families and women who have disappeared
I was totally unaware of how many First Nation women go missing.
Thank You for bringing attention to this atrocity, my sympathies to the families & communities.
I urge everyone to share this.
Same here i had NO IDEA , i could not agree more , lets share this .
There are over 400 Indigenous women missing in Wyoming also. Heartbreaking
@@northscrow9316 I found out the same thing is still happening in the States, the government, law enforcement & the media turn a blind eye to these facts. That’s a disgrace and isn’t acceptable. God Bless
@@northscrow9316 I agree with you, the truth as kept silent or told in very small fragments, and a lots folks have been told to keep silent, Take Good Care of Yourself and Your Family.
It's actually 11 times more 2022
A crime of opportunity. These men know where the law is and where it is not. They are confident that they will not be caught.
Same thing in Montana for Native women and children.
This could be said about any criminal no criminal thinks they're going to be caught while they're committing a crime it's time to think outside the box the problem is you people don't take care of your woman and you let them wander drunk on the highway why aren't you being more protective of your women this has been something throughout history we protect our women that's what men do
Why don't the police put undercover police women out there and have them hitch hike maybe they could catch the guy that way?
Often times commited by people who move around and able to get away with their crimes, like a truck driver..
@@jwehrli6 right I would think along those lines,
Or have kids have tracking devices with them..
I guess natives don' t always carry a phone on them..
It's time to place cameras and phones along the places of disappearances. Let's get this done! It has gone on for far too long. This cannot continue.
yea survailance cams could be the answer
@@nickk9499 the road is hundreds of miles long and is surrounded by wilderness.
@@ann-mariepaliukenas19 yes but cameras and a bus that runs more than 2x a day is needed around the rezs into the city, where most of the hickhiking happens. There's really no excuse, this has been going on far too long. I domt think anyone's expecting the whole highway in cameras. But more can be done.
Chris do you have any idea how remote this is.....you can go for miles and miles seeing no one...how the heck are they going to put phones in the middle of nowhere
@CaliN8tv Sd you are so right! Investigate!!! f'n RMCP get your heads out of your asses and do your jobs investigate. one town 2 women go missing native women murdered no real investigation. they felt she was on a drunk. white women goes missing huge investigation she was gone like 2 weeks. left her farm with animals. the white women was on a party, wtf. the native mom was pissed write a letter to the paper and posted on facebook!
I’m only 5 minutes into this documentary and the mother speaking has such a safe, loving aura about her. So much so that it stood out enough for me to pause the video and make this comment. Bless her.. I hope she has some answers for her daughter soon.
Good Mother's always know where their daughters are and good Mothers can get ahold of their daughters on their cell phone if she was a good mother why wasn't she a good mother when her daughter disappeared this loving or if you're talking about is brought about by the death of her daughter I don't think it's a loving aura I think it's the aura of despair realizing she should have done better to protect her daughter it is not up to the police it's family looking after family that's been the basis of our society
I had a native wife for 7 years and I found her mothering instincts were not very good she regularly let my daughter disappear and didn't try and find where she went I find this to be terrible I find this to be one of the reasons why children disappear indifference towards your own children because of the difficulty in raising them and in most cases single parent family in Aboriginal situations
I find nothing comforting in her voice I do hear the lament for not doing a proper job as a mother
@@larryglowacki5312 are you a great mom Larry huh?
A i can be mostly
This breaks my heart for those parents. My daughter was almost trafficked. Her and a friend answered a newspaper ad for fun and travel took a bus paid for by that company. They traveled from Texas to Kentucky. When they got to the bus stop in Kentucky and picked up they were taken to a cheap motel and separated. Allowed one phone call to parents with a handler over their shoulder. I could tell something was wrong right away and called the police there. We had to get a private detective from our area to work with them. It's a long story but we finally got them back with help of police depts in both states and the pvt. Det, and lots of prayers. It can happen to anyone and anywhere, especially nowadays. Girls please be careful and be aware of your surroundings.
USE YOUR CIGARETTES. EVEN A SIMPLE REQUEST WITH EACH PUFF. YOU DO NOT NEED FANCY PRAYERS. USE THE TOBACCO ... IT WILL ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS AND BE YOUR VOICE.
"For fun & travel"... why would they answer an ad for escorting???! 😦😮😲
Glad shes ok but you should have raised her to be more intelligent she was not 5 years old.
@@Applecider-Poetry what are the cigarettes supposed to do ? Serious question
@@Applecider-Poetry will damn sure get attention
Cameras need to go up on the vulnerable roads. They seem to put them everywhere so why not there! Its shocking how you people have been treated and so little done to find answers to your missing and murdered girls, ✨
Maybe Justin Trudeu gives a hoot....😈 You people?....wtf does that mean
Silly jilly
@@maryeavenson2873 Trudeau cares to much , when you treat adults like victims you will act like one and we have seen the evidence
Didn't like that , You people?? Seriously?? Don't know if that was your intention, but Jilly, you can do better than that, , be good to yourself and to others, be safe 😷 and be woke¡
There’s not even greyhound service anymore so camera’s and the people to monitor them are highly unlikely. This is small town Canada, not like the lower 48 where you can’t drive a mile without seeing a light from a human. In between these towns without the highway might as well be the 1800’s .
Why is this not on national news around the world appalling
It's pretty big news in Canada, has been for a long time
There are a great many reasons for this but things like a missing person usually just stays local unless they are white.
it is.
Because Dutch public TV isn't necessarily the most reliable source..
@@darrellsmith4204 There's a lot of ideological vocabulary in this documentary, which suggests a desire to exaggerate and dramatize.
“When you grow up a girl, your freedom is limited on all sides.” This is so true, I’ve had many scares in my life as many girls and women do. It’s sad and I think when you’re young you don’t think that the worst can happen to you. I’m a Mom to boys, now grown, and I always told them the danger of other people. Some parents don’t do that and they need to in order to help keep their children safe in this world. Teach children to always be aware. ⚛️
Or- the world could change and start to value women.
@@meredithmacdonald4996 Thats some magical thinking you got there! if ONLY the world would change to make me happy, eh? The world is the way it is and first we need to accept & adapt to it. if one CAN make a change thats great! Accept & adapt, thats all anyone can do!
If you think only girls have problems your a problem
I grew up at the end of the highway of tears and .... I remember when people went missing and the searches came up with nothing.
Be careful and stay safe 🙏🏽❤
The politicians are just alike everywhere....they make my skin crawl!
So true, know how you feel.
Because most of them are solopsistic narcissists, not enlightened compassionate, considerate, and caring. In some cases politicians are complete sociopaths and psychopaths. Those are the people that seek power and control. The reason I didn't reenlist in the Marine corps is because they use us to fight senseless battles against an enemy that has no choice but to fight against tyrants. Most people just want to live in peace and enjoy their friends and family, it's the small portion of unsettled souls that have a desire to seek out and destroy.
Trudeau often manages to say the right things, but does f**k all. He disgusts me. He’s driving the country down a sewer.
satanic pedos
@@forcesightknight Yes, Canada has Justin Trudeau and now you in the US have the Democrats 💔
This is the first documentary I've seen on the Highway of Tears. Wow it is intense.
U mist not be looking to hard theres a few out there
Oh yeah intense lies
Most alright solve
The culprit of most johnny wolverineP
I have only compassion for these women, the human beings that are victimized for living. However, this reporter was so obviously biased it takes away from these women are pleading for. They are pleading for help, this reporter is looking to place blame.
You should read the book... I had to take some breaks in between reading... very emotional 😢
Im from the yukon and this has been a living nightmare. Us women talked about it a lot. I think the last time i checked in there was the possibility of multiple killers. I cant watch it now but i will when im stronger.
Rip to those beautiful souls. We could learn so much valuable information about the earth and life from the first nations. Beautiful people.
That Highway of Tears unfortunately appears to be a serial killer magnet. Scary for these women. Extremely sad.
its the lac of investigation
Don't hitchhike , make a plan, don't get drunk, let someone know where you are going, take some personal responsibility to protect yourself. There are a lot of creeps out there that will pray on the weak. You gotta take precautions. Not saying what happened to these girls is their fault. Gotta be responsible for yourself and your safety.
All those rapist and serial killers given soft sentences by the Canadian legal system are living in our communities.
The truck driving profession seems to attract a lot of sexual sadists.
"I am not going to comment on an ongoing genocide". My heart is broken for these women.
Oh?! You replied rudely, plenty, though. Take your broken heart and heal. Don't take out "broken" on others. Oh, and, take ur meds.....✌
@@cat_terrell you misunderstood the commenter's intention and the remarks were made with good will.
You do not know the meaning of genocide. Have you not listened to anything about the victims explanation? You are soooooodense.
@@cat_terrell the only rude comment here is yours
all we can do Malibu is keep these missing people in our prayers and keep sharing this documentary
They can't send an undercover female cop down that road, her car broken down, a female in distress ???
It doesn't have to be a cop. vigilante justice, use decoys
Or maybe not walk along a highway!
Well this lady says her daughter was hitch hiking. You know what the chances are of going missing if you do that?
RIP beautiful girls your loved and you matter❤️❤️
It's a shame what happened to them we should learn from prior mistakes to stop this from again happening
you're . no shade
This is the second documentary i’ve seen with Emy Koopman and she does an excellent job of telling a story through the documentary medium. I’m glad I subscribed to this channel.
I’ve traveled the Highway Of Tears a few times. It such a long, desolate road. I feel feelings of dread and loneliness whenever I drive it.
Maybe he is the lisk
Hello, I am a woman from Germany. And it hurts my heart when I see how the indigenous people are treated there. I am a mother myself. A child, a boy, was taken away from me by the state. I lost a child before it was born. I still have a little 2 year old girl, her name is Cheyenne. I sympathize with every mother there. Warm greetings from Germany .
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It was interesting watching the memorial parade. The ceremonies were a mix of Catholic prayer and Native American drumming and singing. They sing an old Native song and don't understand the exact meaning of the words of their ancestors as the indigenous languages of their people have been forgotten. Sad. I hope all Native peoples of North America can one day regain their past glory.
tobacco still works. even a simple request as the smoke rises with each puff will answer all your questions. otherwise tobacco just kills you and robs you of your physical body. give some respect to this simple herb and it will solve your every problem. there is an ear for your requests.
I'm from the area. The song they were singing is from another nation that was given to us to use. So we can't translate it because we don't speak thier language. We still have lot of our people who speak the language to know our songs.
what an extraordinary piece of work. it's gutting to see what these people have been through. much thanks to the filmmakers for bringing it to us.
Kudo to the mayor for his effort in dealing with the issues. I live in a country (my adopted country), that even though there are still issues to be solved especially racism, we are blessed our government is constantly working alongside our indigenous people to find solutions. R.I.P. to all the forgotten beautiful sisters and may the Lord continue to bring comfort to the grieving parents & families affected.
This is so disgusting that the government don’t take these people seriously. These people are the First Nation and they should have more input. The government forgets that they are not true Canadians. These people are the true leaders, yet they are treated like they are immigrants. My heart breaks for them...
Well, get ready, bcuz of Agenda 2031 - & likely loong b4, the Natives WILL have ALL their land back, & the positions will then be totally reversed!!...FACT!!
a big problem is lack of transportation to get around the area
Argee
Yeah well don't worry. It's not just them the government doesn't care about. Remember how they handled the freedom convoy? They used racism to keep us separated and convinced some of us that we matter and they only really care about/have set things up, for "us". But it's not true.
Unresolved trauma, disconnection from the sacred, racism and substance abuse. I don't care who you are or where you're from, that's a recipe for high risk behaviour. These girls played the ultimate price for all of it. R.I.P sweet girls, you deserved so much better 💔
and no investigations
I left Smithers in 1999... Up until I left, each time one of these poor girls went missing it was such a haunting feeling. All you could do was think about them and who among us could’ve done such a horrid thing. It kept happening and Every-time I drove on that highway I thought of them and how isolated and vast it is, who would know, who would see. It’s Heart just breaking to see this is still happening, what’s even sadder is that I recognize Jessica’s aunt... yet another person affected by these tragedies. That damn place...
This documentary needs to be heard world wide!! We love you!!
😢 SAD, SAD, SAD. SO EXTREMELY TOUCHING, HEARTBREAKING, AND BAFFLING. GOD BLESS HEM ALL .🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
these people seem to have a similar plight as the indigenious people of Australia, where they were broken as peoples in colonial times and now with this next generation they are in a recovery stage trying to re-build their culture in order the for their young and upcoming generation to stand on their own feat
Oh we stand just fine. We've been standing here since the mastadon were not the ones who will be going anywhere. Our culture is very alive and well. Over 8 million indigenous people left here. We have political strengths and powers that are never spoken of the way these stories are. This is more white supremist brainwash that is doing nothing more than convincing observers that we had our land taken and culture broken. This bias lens must be shattered eventually.
-2 dead owls
@@ShadeRaven222 That's just BS. When you take land and lose language, you lose culture. That just a given. I've been on community all over Australia and although where I live in the NT, culture is strong, there are some serious social issues that need to be addressed. So much culture HAS been lost to so many all over this country. Fragments exist amongst those in the south, those in the north keep it strong. In the south, indigenous live like white people, and say our culture is strong pffft. Thing is these are the same people pulling other Indigenous down that talk about the real issues for those still living with theirs. Alcoholism, violence, sexual assaults, incest, poverty, poor health outcomes, poor education, less access to employment and then there are cultural values within culture that are causing issues like altruism. Who is really white washing the truth here ?? I love our Indigenous, I respect and help them every day, but maybe I see more than you do. There is much work to do, although not without great hope Australian Indigenous culture like so many others is definitely a culture in crisis.
@@delishme2 serious issues here too with drugs, alcohol, domestic abuse, child abuse and murder, but it is so much easier to blame white people instead of looking at what is going wrong in your own culture.
@@jillgarlick2122 Honestly, there could have been some Indigenous men who could have killed some of these women. However, systemic racism, colonization, genocide have contributed to Indigenous women being 6x to go missing or murdered. How are people supposed to heal when their culture was forcibly stripped away from them due to White settlers coming in and stealing your people's lands? Let's not forget that the federal government allowed Indigenous children to be forcibly removed by the RCMP to attend church-run residential schools. These prison-like institutions were corrupt to the core and were riddled with rampant sexual abuse, neglect, and murder. Often, children were told their way of life and culture was satanic or that their parents were demonic and unable to care for them. Spending 10 years of your life removed from your culture and forced to assimilate into a society that hates your very people creates negative displacement and self-loathing emotions. Trauma lingers on for life, and if all you were shown as a child was abuse, the likelihood of the cycle ending is slim to none. It can take upwards of 7 generations for the effects of genocide to end. Indigenous women's miss treatment by both Indigenous men and White men is due to racism and misogyny. Before being colonized, man Indigenous cultures were egalitarian and matriarchal. Unfortunately, after colonizers came, they started imposing their patriarchal way of life on the Indigenous communities to assimilate them. Indigenous women weren't even recognized as Indigenous according to the Indian Act of 1864. Indigenous women would lose their status if they married into another band or married a white man; white women were given full Indian status if they married an Indigenous man. In the past, Indigenous women weren't allowed to be elected as a band council member or weren't given permission to vote or engage in banc council decisions. In modern Canada, there has been minimal change done to fully address the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women except for the National Inquiry into the murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls group and the Truth and Reconciliation report of 2015 core reasons behind the alarming statistics. I apologize for the rambling, but I thought it was necessary to share some facts contributing to chronic problems that face Indigenous people in Canada. Since its inception, the Canadian government (both provincially and federally) has worked hard to assimilate Indigenous people into Canadian society. This has resulted in abhorrent treatment towards Indigenous people, everything from residential schools, which primary purpose was to "Save the child, Kill the Indian," reservations were given to them because of the expansion of Canadian lands. More Indigenous children are in foster care than in residential school; experts have argued that foster care is akin to residential school 2.0. It's fairly straightforward that many people in mainstream society don't give a fuck about the Indigenous struggle and blame them for creating a toxic culture. However, the federal government is to blame for continually not helping their community out by deliberately reducing the budget for services. Racism and the people who have held power in Canada are the core cause as to why Indigenous people continue to struggle today.
@@florjean965 but how is continual blaming of life events that are long gone helping the young women? Killers target the vulnerable in society, and the parents’ alcoholism , drug use etc. is just continuing the cycle of making their children vulnerable, and showing the world that they are incapable of overcoming their past and showing their children that there is no hope, just blaming everything except their own failings. No wonder the girls feel unsupported and hopeless. The past is the past, the present is all that is real and the future depends upon making better choices for their children and becoming involved in a life other than alcohol and drugs. Of course it is hard, but if things are to change, it is almost entirely up to them.
If this is the first time you've heard of this you've been living under a rock. There is countless docs about the highway of tears. I'm glad you're finally awake about what has been happening there. Please continue your concern and share this story with others who might not know.
The residential schools have always been a difficult thing for me. Just last summer my friend from Rosebud Reservation (in South Dakota, USA) showed videos of three children brought home from Carlisle in Pennsylvania. The young people of the tribe carried these children to their graves and placed them in the graves. I cried so hard. My husband's father was an inmate at Carlisle. It makes me sick to my stomach. NO APOLOGY, without actions to back it will EVER be enough, if even then.
Highway and gas station cameras could provide leads and act as a deterrent.
Yes, why not have traffic enforcement cameras along the road at intersections as a way to track license plates and to act as a deterrent (posting signs notifying there are cameras on the road)? This is done in some countries.
@@kristinab1078 Yes. Even my remote area has finally procured license plate readers.
@@kristinab1078 check out a map of the area! its huge with lots of bush. a proper investigation is what's needed
That's ridiculous. You cant have cameras everywhere. Who pays for that? Who pays for the police to work on all these cold cases? You all bitch about taxes but then you want your government to do more. You cant have it both ways. There will always be people who murder, blame them. If it pisses you off get off your ass and do something about it.
@@klondikemom3658 not many roads however
It sounds like a serial killers paradise there
It' s a big country, hard to police every square km..
Human trafficking
@@Edith.G.G. lac of investigation.
@@klondikemom3658 yes i think so to.
I have to wonder if pervs and traffickers are drawn there because it has become a perfect hunting ground. If this is the case then it would be very hard to pin any particular person or group down. No, I'm not offering this as an excuse for the Canadian govt and the RCMP. They most certainly haven't done enough and their silence on the subject is peculiar, open case or no.
We can talk about the systematic annihilation of First Nation people. Starting in the years of the conquest until now. One very important tool has been alcohol, followed by drugs and then the disappearance of women. How many?
The woman breaking down sent chills up and down my body, I felt her pain
I live in this area in one of the communities and I am on highway 16 all the time. I personally do not think it is a wise idea to go walking on this highway it such a long lonely stretch of highway anything can happen. Apparently now men are going missing. We were just talking at work about the women missing on the highway and it is amazing how many people are affected by this and you would never know until conversations come up.
no one gonna care for men going missing though, umm yeah new flash this also happens to me, not as much but it happens, but not one shows concerns on that, it always just focused on women.
That’s horrible! Those poor families suffering! I can’t believe law enforcement isn’t putting their full effort & resources into this. It doesn’t matter what race, color, gender, rich or poor these are human beings, we’re all brothers & sisters in this world!
The police is killing us too and covering it. The RCMP was made to put us in rezs. Its been like this for 100's of years, nothing will chance until they start listening but it'd easier to stay ignorance and ignore it until another child like poor little Tina gets murdered because the system failed her.
Unresolved trauma is always at the core of further chaos and trauma in one’s adulthood.
A very heartfelt story. Thank you for uploading . RIP to all the girls.
These cases break my heart and the pain you can hear in all their voices- it literally makes me sick to my stomach. I'm sending so much love to these families.
As a white women living in canada this makes me sick to my stomach....
Hahahahaa
Thank you for posting this. I have been looking for a documentary on the Highway of Tears
I'm heartbroken blessed ones rest in peace beautiful angels may the family's find healing and peace and answers please help our loved ones
Thank you for sharing this story and sharing this with anyone who knows more about this story
What an eye opening documentary. I am so angry that the RCMP detachment in Smithers treated these missing women with such disrespect! The bottom line here is that we are all human...all brothers and sisters. I was taught to treat others as I wanted to be treated. Women of Smithers and elsewhere, stay strong. God bless you all!
I feel ur pain hun my best friend and GF was missing for months until she was found in pieces .. Had to identify her by DNA because her head hands and feet were missing.. A local officer was implemented and failed a lie detector test but was never charged .. It breaks my heart every day over and over again it never gets easier !!!!
They never caught the person who did it? Im so sorry i cant imagine
This is heartbreaking and it's true these precious women deserve and are worthy of everyone caring and it needs to be all over the media and police to put just as much time as they would if it was a girl from college all women matter
What about ALL the murdered and missing women from across the country?.
Wonderful film! Thank you for introducing me to a subject I had know so little about. Poignant. The ferocity with which the people in this film care for one another is remarkable, living and deceased.
Sending a light for you and your family.
Why would this women drop off drunk girls in the middle of no where, after they tell you they are going to hitch hike?
Why? because its her job, she's not out there driving people around for fun or volunteering her time to babysit people making bad choices, she's earning her living. If she said to the drunk girls "no don't hitch hike, its dangerous", it would most likely have fallen on deaf ears because they had already decided what they wanted to do. If they did listen and change their mind, of course she would have driven them elsewhere.
She is also vulnerable to being ripped off by passengers refusing to pay, being robbed or attacked by passengers (including drunk girls). So, she takes a risk herself while trying to earn a living for her family.
I think singling out the cab driver to criticise her is unfair, and unrealistic.
She is not responsible for those girls' choices.
What can be done to help them make safer choices, to not take such risks? I think they addressed that question a bit in the film, which was very moving and painful, and really only scratches the surface of the trauma and disadvantage indigenous people must deal with.
As I just wrote. A guy told me about this highway 14 years ago!! He nearly turned pale in telling me, of the bodies and missing. He was in the Nakusp area. His concern, from his heart too. Come on, DNA etc. They should be solving it. He thought it could be truckers going north, or Prince Rupert. But to have this known for dead women! Those girls looked so wholesome. I was staying at hostels, and have blond hair. I feel sorry for this kind community . I wish this never happened to them, my regards to all.
What's this blond hair is all about again?
To Lita! I am stating, just saying, I am not prejudiced! That is why I mentioned blond!!! As I wrote elsewhere, ::: why couldn't casino money contribute money for a bus? I don't gamble. Sooooo alllll the big money going through casinos = regular and Indian casinos = in BC and Canada. Or even donation buckets/ with info and photos! ===: There for this need.and consider wasted money thrown away so to speak by casino playing.... by the way, I took the bus before from prince George to prince Rupert! Seemed like an eternity, so lonely, yes.
I hope these family's find answers, and can finally have some kind of peace. Though nothing will ever take the hurt away.
or......... "the trucker thing" just passing thru now and then... never to be known
I lived in Prince George, which is at one end of the Highway of Tears. Coworkers described a police officer, who did not know the intercom was on, telling a First Nations woman that she was "Nothing but a little whore" etcetera. Another coworker had a friend who was in the back seat of a police cruiser that was driving him out of town on Foothills road, in the middle of winter, at night. When he told the Police that he had texted his wife where they were taking him, they quietly turned the car around and brought him back to the city and let him out without a word. UHNBC, the hospital in P.G. is also notoriously racist and contributes to the systemic racism. In the neighborhood I lived in, there was an older man who seemed very practiced and decisive about approaching indigenous individuals of both genders who seemed quite childlike. When he noticed me watching him, he quickly pulled a U-turn and let the woman out (who sounded like an 8-year-old). When he noticed me writing down his license plate number as he approached a male teenager (who looked like a 10-year-old), he sped away and I never saw him again. Prince George is quite racist and it is not a coincidence that it is the beginning of the Highway of Tears.
Sounds like the law does not care. It is that some person or persons know the area very well
Thank you for bringing attention to this 🙏🏼
I didn't know anything about the Highway of Tears until my cousins told me to look it up on UA-cam. Seeing this is so heartbreaking. I feel so much for those families. They deserve answers and indigenous people should be treated a whole lot better. The police just don't seem to care about indigenous people. It is so wrong they are being failed in every possible way,
They don't care about us NGL the rcmp and other police like the opp has been behind a lot of our missing and murdered too. When we go missing they dgaf and they they find our skulls and bones and they still dgaf it turns into a cold case.
Thank you for.puting this out the and my thoughts and prayers to the family's and the people of that land I will share this and help the couse
This is absolutely heart breaking. Something really needs to be done about this. There really is no justice in this world. So much evil is going unpunished. My heart goes out to all the families of these beautiful souls.
Thank you for uploading this. I saw Merc's video earlier this week on the matter which detailed the victims and yours told me about the victims families. How they are doing and what they are trying to do
My heart aches for the victims & there family & friends.
Thanks for sharing this with me ❤️🇨🇱💕. Praying for healing of the first nation people.
It's still happening, all over Canada. Thank you so much for sharing this. 🐺❤✌
Amazing reporting. With heart. And respect for victim and family (finally hearing their story.) Thank you for that. You've got new subscriber.
So sad first I’ve heard of this not enough is done to bring people responsible for this crime to justice
My heart breaks for the community. We need mass searches so this stops. I can’t believe nobody cares about this I can’t stop crying. I can’t believe I live in this world I don’t want to be here anymore
There are Still Lighthouses in a Sea of Darkness.
What a terrible thing for all the beautiful Indigenous women on this stretch of highway. I am a Christian white woman that has nothing but love and respect for these peoples of our land. Their ways are so very interesting and can be extremely helpful with their knowledge of herbs, gatherings of wild edibles and such. It is paramount that the individual(s) are found that have taken the lives of these precious girls over the years. One would think that some knowledge concerning their disappearances has been established and with the latest technologies something would direct towards a break in this ongoing crime. I am very fond of their many talents and beautiful crafts owned by these folks. May God help and protect these beautiful women. Further, my heart aches for these extremely sad stories of their past, what they endured at the hands of our government. It created the problems that these people carry today. One day, by God's grace and mercy these people will get retribution for all that they have endured.
The prayer of Ramona’s mother brought tears to my eyes. Jesus be with this hurting woman and so many others like her…. 😢
Thank you for this documentary. This is a horrible thing 😞 happening!
I’m sorry to those whose lost their loved ones it’s sad I remember I was 2 years old when this happened
Even when someone was arrested and jailed, a bunch more girls went missing!! I think its a family of killers out there!!!!! WE REMEMBER YOU GIRLS!!!! LOVE YOU!!!
Shame on the people who call themselves ( authority, police , government)
😢 Look at Trudies lies.
Goddamn it! How hard would it be to deploy adequate patrols on that stretch of highway? So frustrating
I live in Vancouver BC Canada and know all too well about these murders. Police are slow when trying to solve these. Just like Picktons. How many woman have to die until this horrific nightmare is finally solved.
Is the murderer a member of the RCMP? They don’t want to talk that’s for sure.
Or a few of them eh
God bless Ramona's poor mother. 💔 I hope one day these girls get justice.
I thought canada was a great peace loving country , shockingly from india 🙏
It is lower crime than many other places, I think their law enforcement is tremendously biased, the RCMP I feel are poorly trained and inexperienced with this type of violent crime, also I think they don't care about first nations people , absolutely cameras need to be placed all along the hiway of tears, emergency phone boxes as well, I think an indigenous volunteer citizens patrol could be extremely effective, like the guardian angels on the New York subways in the 70's, saved lives, deterred crime
The female warrior song is sung at most protests for First Nation's social injustice all over Canada. It is such a beautiful song to unify people
My heart tells me the person responsible for these crimes is a trusted individual from your own community.
Look deeply into thy neighbour’s eyes.
You will know when you see evil.....you will see through the eye’s of the lives taken.
Highway of tears is not only about indigenous people!
Strangers??? It's a serial killer..maybe a truck driver who frequents the area! He knows the area!
This is terribly sad and breaks my heart but the assumption that it was white people and not native men in at least some cases is not really a logical assumption.
Natives say the same thing in Montana. I found that surprising and not reasonable either. Lots of meth, alcoholism and other drugs on the reservations. It is a very dangerous world for all women and children.
Can you blame them for accusing the white man? Being a white man I know the history of what we did to aboriginal peoples. Sure, there are obviously native men who do these things, but I don't blame them for looking at us.
@@davidsadler7047 times have changed
@@georginasmith441 not much.
@@georginasmith441 sorry but that all depends on where you live.
Im from Ireland and have known of all the young women disappearing over there,i think its a national scandal and the politicians should be ashamed that this is still happening.
How is this a politicians fault? Lol. Girls are out hitchhiking drunk, some creep abducts them, kills them, dumps them. What's the scandal?
@@ryandavids1129 and the guy/ guys responsible have the same sick mindset you do, you’re a part of the issue!
There is probably a serial killer. As the policeman said, it's very difficult to solve stranger-on-stranger murder. One possible way, is if a vary brave police woman acted as a decoy, posing as a hitch-hiker, maybe eventually they would catch the guy.
This what I said and she should have a black belt deadly woman
The First Nations should look closer to home.
Canadian police - shame on you!
Canadian government - shame on you!
First Nation communities-shame on you for not taking control of your own lives and endlessly dlaming others for your own problems, get your shit together like the rest of us have to!.
I spent many years in Indian reserve what I have noticed is when people leave the reserve they don't try and stay in contact they seem to fall off of the edge of the Earth and drunken women late at night trying to get a ride on the highway is never a good idea it could happen to anyone it doesn't have to be Aboriginal I feel the Aboriginal people are not doing a very good job at protecting their women anymore otherwise why wouldn't the chief of those reserves have a bus driving on the highway for rides for people there's endless amounts of money supply to the Aboriginal Community they just chose to buy new winter tires for their cousins instead of doing something purposeful with the money
@@davidhoogendyke2774 EXACTLY! I agree with you! I was thinking the same thing! Enough of these “I am a victim” bullocks. The Canadian government is doing more than expected. The Government has given these people public apologies on several occasions live on national television. The government provides these people with endless opportunities and money in good faith that these people will get their ducks in a row and they will live a good quality of life. The majority of these people, choose to waste and abuse all this help they are getting from our tax dollars on booze, drugs and tobacco... Then they pull out the victim card... What else should the government do for this ungrateful bunch? These people are complaining about their standard of living. They should go to a 3rd world country in Africa, where fresh clean water is scarce, nutritional food is unaffordable. No access to a basic medical facility. Overall, basic human needs to live with dignity are not met. Shame on these indigenous groups for hitchhiking for a bottle of booze and a pack of cigarettes despite knowing all the risks. Shame on the people for playing the victim card.
RIP to all my sisters - God Bless each of you *hugs you are in my prayers*
I think multiple truckers a ton of em from 1969 till now have been kidnapping and killing girls . I certainly think there’s a deranged cult mindset back then in truckers across the highway of tears. God these cases are so crazy it’s unbelievable
yes! there was even hamerican guy suspected of being a serial killer on the highway of tears!
Its probably the RCMP too ngl.
And not only in Canada either.
This is so sad. Praying that awareness is brought and that change can come for these women.
None of these women and girls were killed by colonialism. They were killed by a person or persons unknown as yet. Find the killer and stop making excuses.
Colonialism is just a coop out
You haven’t heard? It’s popular nowadays to point the finger at another race these days instead of facing the problem or task at hand silly! Just turn on the news and see for yourself! 🤗🤓🤣
@@ethanbridges6816 Are you feeling guilty.
@@mry9619 no bc I could give a flying fuck I’m Cherokee Native asshat.
@@mry9619 quiet now? Hmmmm? Thought so.
Why don’t they have cameras up all over . ? I pray for the families.
So very sad and heartbreaking ❤️🙏🇨🇦
This is heartbreaking....
So sad, how many indigenous people have to solve their own cases. Even when evidence is taken to the police, and police turn away. Indigenous peoples are the strongest people on this land. 🙏
First Nations have to learn to start at home with fixing their own problems, and maybe begin by joining the 21st century. Scrap the Indian Act and modernize.
@@davidhoogendyke2774 lmao okay. Why are you on this video? Youre full of ignorance maybe learn.
RIP beautiful souls...may all suffering family and community members find answers soon. In Jesus's name, Amen 🙏
Several first nations women who reside along the stretch of highway known as the highway of tears, documented complains through local media in an desperate effort to protect them self's from harm. Each of them testified to very similar accusations of sexual assault and threats to their lives. One of the victims explained that two RCMP officers raped her and told to keep it to her self or she would disappear.
Even though RCMP officers and RCMP officials where found blameworthy for the same criminal conduct towards their own female officers,they manage to get away with an out of court settlement, payed by the tax payers. Government response was to callously inform the first nation victims that they would first have to report their complains to the RCMP before government officials would even consider offering them protection.
Im crying! police need to investigate and now. ive heard of the highway of tears a few years ago and it still breaks my heart.
WERE ARE THE ME TOO MOVEMENT WERE ARE THEY YA ALL POLITICAL God Bless the earth women ❤