Monica Jack // Delphine Nikal // Aielah Saric-Auger (MMIW)
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🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Third Thursday bonus episode featuring the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The Highway of Tears in northern British Columbia has seen the vanishing and murders of upwards of 40 women and girls. Of the 18 cases the RCMP Project E-Pana task force is investigating, six of them were First Nations girls under the age of 18. Today, we are telling three of their stories. Music by Scott Buckley basementfort.com
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| 0:00.0 | The Highway of Tears in Northern British Columbia has seen the vanishing and murders of upwards |
| 0:16.4 | of 40 women and girls. Of the 18 cases the RCMP project E-Panna Task Force is investigating. |
| 0:25.6 | Most of them were first nation's girls under the age of 18. Today we're telling three of those |
| 0:33.7 | stories. I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines. |
| 0:45.7 | Welcome to the first in the year-long third Thursday series. Every third Thursday of the month, |
| 0:52.8 | I will be profiling another missing or murdered, Indigenous persons case. I'm working with a |
| 0:58.9 | researcher named Annie on this project and you can hear more about how we're working this in the |
| 1:04.8 | out with the old episode posted at the end of 2019. Unlike this episode, most of the cases we will be |
| 1:14.0 | covering will be short episodes. Annie is working directly with families and many of the cases will be |
| 1:21.9 | ones with little or no media coverage. But to kick off this project, I wanted to start with stories |
| 1:30.5 | from the Highway of Tears. The Highway of Tears is many people's entry point to understanding |
| 1:38.8 | the violence against Indigenous women in North America. But I find that it often falls into |
| 1:46.7 | the same spot that stories about serial killers fall into. We speak broadly of what's happening, |
| 1:54.8 | but we don't talk much about the individual victims. That's why I want to approach this episode |
| 2:02.4 | a little differently and instead of focusing on the whole of the Highway of Tears or the legal |
| 2:09.4 | initiatives or any of that, I want to just focus on these three cases of Indigenous children |
| 2:17.8 | who are included in the RCMP's count of 18 victims. The number of missing and murdered women |
| 2:26.8 | and children along the Highway of Tears is in dispute. It could reach up to 40 or more if you |
| 2:34.8 | look more broadly at the cases and don't only focus on the RCMP's guidelines. But let's look at |
| 2:44.2 | those 18 classified by the RCMP as under their E-PANDA task force. 10 of the 18 are first nations |
| 2:55.5 | women and girls. That is 55%. When you consider that the total Indigenous population of British |
| 3:04.4 | Columbia is less than 6%, you can see that this is widely disproportionate. But that's not what we're |
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