Canada's Missing Women Tragedy (Missing Persons Documentary) | Real Stories
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2023
- Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh brings us a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy - the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The film takes a journey into the heart of Indigenous women's experience, from Vancouver's skid row, down the Highway of Tears in northern BC, and on to Saskatoon, where the murders and disappearances of these women remain unsolved.
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One woman knows 50 missing women??? That's unfathomable and heartbreaking. How does the gov find this ignorable??? 😡😡😡
Because they make money by not doing their job 😡
Makes me so MAD
Because if you are white no problem people police look for you. If you are native you are SOL that is how it has been for decades
As a Canadian.. I know. Our government just throws money at them but doesn’t truly accept them and show the respect they deserve. They keep having to fight for it, our government is a joke
When this documentary was made in 2006 it mentions approximately 9 women missing along the Highway of Tears. Present day (2023), this number is now upwards of 40.
😢😢😢😢 is it one person? You would think in this age of surveillance cameras and dashcams etc…they would have something, no matter how small.
I appreciate you updating the numbers. It's disgraceful. 😢
It has to be so much higher.
That is also false. From 1970 to 2023, over 80+ women have either went missing or were murdered on the Highway of Tears. Most of the 40+ cases before 2006 were left unreported for a long time
@@LilmisscostumedramaIt is not one person. A fraction of the cases have been solved. There are tons of factors that contribute to these cases. Poverty and the lack of vehicle transport leave these women with no choice but to walk on dangerous natural terrain or resort to hitchhiking. There is not much adequate law enforcement so there are many criminals there that don’t get investigated. They can die in accidents or animal attacks or they can get abducted or be murdered by people they know. Lots of reasons why these keep on happening.
I just want to comment to tell everyone that the disappearance of Daleen Bosse was eventually solved. A bouncer from the nightclub she went to confessed to her murder in 2008 (two years after the documentary was filmed). They were also about to locate her body. Thanks to the continued fight for justice from her family and loved ones, Daleen is no longer missing but found. 💔
May these women rest in peace, not be forgotten and may justice be avenged. Bless their family and friends that they may heal. I am so sorry what happened to you, you dear souls.
I almost don’t have words. What a beautifully heartbreaking tribute to these women, circled and embraced with hope for breaking cycles that would otherwise continue to decimate and harm families. There is so much good in this doc….well done!
I agree, these poor women just wanted to be loved and some monster had the nerve to torture these poor girls, I am sure on judgement day, the good Lord will wipe every tear from them and will be comforted while this monster will wish that he has never born, I am not the judge, however I am sure there is a special place in H???? for a person like this, what was he thinking?
The film begins with the story of Dawn Crey: one of 60 women, a third of them Aboriginal, who have disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside over a 20-year period. Crey's remains were among those found on the property of British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton. However, not enough of Dawn's DNA was found to list her as one of the murder victims at the trial. The film introduces viewers to Dawn's sister and brother, and their involvement in the annual Women's Memorial March in Vancouver.
The film then focuses on BC's Highway 16, known as the Highway of Tears, which runs between Prince Rupert, British Columbia and Prince George, British Columbia, looking at the fate of Ramona Wilson. Wilson was one of nine women - all but one of them Native - who have gone missing or been murdered on that stretch of road since the 1990s.
Welsh also filmed in Saskatoon, where a woman named Daleen Kay Bosse disappeared in 2004. She went missing in May but a criminal investigation didn't begin until the following January. In the film, Daleen’s parents and friends talk about their difficulty in getting Saskatoon police to take Daleen’s disappearance seriously.
Native rights activists Janice Acoose and Fay Blaney are interviewed in the film.
Christine Welsh has produced, written and directed films for more than 30 years. She is an associate professor at the University of Victoria, where she teaches courses in indigenous women’s studies and indigenous cinema.
Thank you very much for the information.
Thanks for info🕊
I cannot understand why they took Indiginous children away from their parents. Did not make any sense, did not do any good. Was barbaric.
In Australia, the British did the same with the First Nation People. They wanted to bring them up to "British Civilized Standard" by separating the children from mothers and families. They were taught to be "Christians" and worked for the White settlers as domestic servants, cattle herders, and even unpaid.
It was to "take the Indian out of the child". To "christianize" the "savages". Not my words, but the testimony of First Nations survivors of "Indian Schools".
It's sad and sick. We are all brothers and sisters no matter what shade our skin is or our traumas from childhood.
Same thing happened here in Australia as I’m sure you know, the trauma transgresses through the generations.
The church-government have done terrible things. Very sad
It was because to white men from Europe including part of my own relatives absolutely thought Natives were inhumane and animals. My great great grandmother was captured from her Apache Tribe in Chihuahua and sold into slavery to a Mexican man who was actually Irish. She was a slave. And people still don’t even care about them or believe it.
I live in Port Coquitlam and the farm is just around the corner from me. It’s so horrible and sad. These woman were not throw aways. They were human being that didn’t deserve this horrific tragedy. I also was living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. I also struggled with addiction and lived a similar life as these women. It could’ve been me on this list. In 2009 I finally was able to pull myself out of the area and addiction trap. It still haunts me thinking about what could have been., RIP ladies, friends, and sisters. You’ll never be forgotten.🙏🪽🪽
Scary how close to home it hits my now ex husband's girlfriend before me (sorry if that's confusing) but she use to attend parties at that farm before or we assume before he started his killing spree
@@beansmama8914 ah yes, the Piggy Palace. Who can forget that place. Interestingly, after being away from the whole scene I ended up dating a man that worked for his brother Dave Pickton driving trucks and excavators. He remembers girls being at the farm all the time but minded his own business. He ended up taking 2 yrs off of work when the story broke. He had a breakdown.
@@Tammissa I am not surprised, I personally am not from the area at all I live in Ontario and met my ex online who moved here but has since moved back so I can honestly say I only know what I have heard through media and other first to second hand information
Happy you were able to make a change for the better and hope you are doing well 🙏🏻
America hears you! Keep putting the word out there! 🇺🇲😢
I send love and strength. This needs to stop. More concern is needed.
So heart breaking.
The film begins with the story of Dawn Crey: one of 60 women, a third of them Aboriginal, who have disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside over a 20-year period. Crey's remains were among those found on the property of British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton.
Have the numbers decreased in the area since his arrest?
@@amyr.8283i hope so, read his wiki and he was found guilty for the murders of 6 woman but it could be up to 30
Thank you so much for this!
Wow! Incredibly sad film. Loves, thoughts, hugs and prayers to everyone in it affected by these beautiful indigenous women of Canada being missing, murdered, having violence committed against and all of the other atrocities they were put through. They all will get justice, guaranteed! Stay strong 🦾💪 everyone!🪶🧕🇨🇦🍁
I would say the Canadian people have got to talk about this problem and admit more needs to be done to help people who need it the most.
Hopefully all these missing
We Canadians do talk about this issue all this time and know something needs to be done. The problem is their are so many issues that factor into how these women go missing. Your average Canadians can't fix these issues.
David Palides- aka missing 411 has an extensive catalogue of missing Canadians/ Americans his research is curiously concerning
I’m Canadian and it’s such a tragedy
Is it tho?
Is someone ever going to be willing to have an honest conversation about this?
@@yeetnama9094 I’m curious what you mean by your comment
@@yeetnama9094 what do you mean by this ?
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A tragedy being Canadian? How so? 🤔
What the uncouth incomers did to the indigenous people was on a par to what Hitler did to Jews but nobody says a word about the suffering of way too many indigenous .Shameless and to this day in way too many colonised lands people suffer..Shame on the authorities who are simply indifferent .This video shows and highlights apartheid .Terrible it is active in is era .
To Acclaimed Métis Filmmaker Christen Welsh this documentary was very memorable and moving to my heart ❤️ I have watched many programs about indigenous women and the Highway of Tears. I am very grateful for your work and help with these precious people. There needs to be so many more people who can help these Native American people all over this country and here in the United States. My prayers are with all of the families and friends who have lost their loved ones. In Jesus Mighty Name. Amen. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thanks for sharing this documentary
Why can't they have a bus to take them back and forth. It is ridiculous that this is happening to these poor people and something needs to be done! They are human beings and need help 😮
RIP You precious women. Bless and Takecare from U.K.
So hard to see this stories!!! Women's all the time are dealing with so much suffering and especially the native women's. You deserve your lands back and respect and justice. Love from Romania Romania!💙💛❤
Truly horrid how long this has been going on....
They do seem to prefer marginalized women with drug use and prostitution as they are less likely to have strong family bonds and a more transient lifestyle.
i’ve always shared the story of the highway of tears and the missing and murdered indoors peoples with my children. we are first nations oneida and i feel it’s important for them to know and to honour those who don’t make it home. always sending love to the families and hoping we can make it home safe when we leave !
There is also an highway in America with the same name 😢
Why do we do this to each other? Im so deeply saddened and i was already in a low place, this world is just terrifying
It’s men, men are responsible ALL MEN- violent men run our lives and non violent men allow it!
Dawn was such a beautiful and solar child !!!!!!!!! I feel so sorry for her, for her family, for all these Women trapped in violence, drugs, ..... A lot of men are monsters, predators May the justice and light come. May all these innocent victims and their families find peace .
I strongly believe there are serial killers in Edmonton, truck driver.😮
What a beautiful place a vast and hilly terrain...where easily for bodies to disappear... 😭😭. Yes, even in beautiful places EVIL can happen. I hope the Authorities find answers for their Loved ones disappearence and murders. It is even more sad that these people feel neglected and the victims forgotten. My son's father is also native American., so I feel a kindred spirit with these wonderful people.
this is so very sad. does anyone think....... had the powers that be left these people to their own way of life, things for them would have been so much better, and white man would have learned so much from them, no one no matter what race, creed or colour deserves to be beaten, torcherd, murdered by anyone else, my heart crys for these women and these people, they deserve so much more, are owed so much more, they lost so much through mans ignorance and greed may these beautiful ladys rest in peace, and may the first nations never forget their ancestors and the teaching passed down from them, god bless them all xx
Indigenous people need to treat each other more humanely and indigenous activists should stop deflecting and blaming everyone else like white men, racists and rotten cops for murdered indigenous women in Canada because they're barking up the wrong tree. Go figure! It helps NO ONE!
Statistics Canada: "Court Outcomes in Homicides of Indigenous Women & Girls/2009-2021":
81% of indigenous women & girls killed in Canada knew their killer (intimate partner/acquaintance/family member) and in 86% of those cases, the person accused of their homicide was also indigenous.
In fact, overall stranger homicides were LESS common among indigenous victim (8%) verses non-indigenous victims (12%) of women & girls who were killed.
Educate yourself.
This past month, Jay Raphael and Chelsey Quaw have both gone missing from a small community along Highway of Tears.
BC alone, %40 of all of Canada's missing persons cases, are in British Columbia.
Between 2009 and 2021, the rate of homicide against First Nations, Métis and Inuit women and girls was six times higher than the rate among their non-Indigenous counterparts. Homicides of Indigenous women and girls take complex pathways through the Canadian criminal courts, from police laying or recommending charges to court processes and outcomes.
The majority (87%) of homicides involving Indigenous women and girls reported by police between 2009 and 2021 were cleared by police, in that an accused person was identified in relation to the case. This proportion was slightly lower than in homicides of non-Indigenous women and girls (90%).
Most Indigenous women and girls were killed by someone that they knew (81%), including an intimate partner (35%), acquaintance (24%), or family member (22%). In most cases, the person accused of their homicide was also Indigenous (86%).
Police were less likely to lay or recommend a charge of first-degree murder-the most serious type of homicide charge-when the victim was Indigenous (27%) compared to when she was not (54%). Instead, charges of second-degree murder (60%) and manslaughter (13%) were more common. Manslaughter charges were also more common when the accused person was Indigenous.
When incidents of homicide of Indigenous women and girls moved to court, manslaughter charges were twice as common when the victims were Indigenous women and girls (41% of homicide charges) than when they were not (20%).
Manslaughter charges were the most likely to result in a finding of guilt, in homicides of Indigenous (66%) and non-Indigenous (72%) women and girls. Overall, 45% of homicides of Indigenous women and girls (including manslaughter and other homicide charges) resulted in a guilty finding. Acquittals were rare in homicides of Indigenous women and girls (1.6%), as they were when the victims were non-Indigenous (0.4%).
At the case level, guilty findings in cases of homicides of Indigenous women and girls were most common in cases where the accused was a spouse (82%) or a stranger (79%). Overall, stranger homicides were less common among Indigenous victims (8%, versus 12% of non-Indigenous women and girls who were killed).
Custody was by far the most common type of sentence passed in cases linked to homicides of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous women and girls. The average length of sentenced custody was three years shorter for those found guilty in a case involving the homicide of an Indigenous woman or girl, compared to when the victim was non-Indigenous.
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Introduction
In Canada, Indigenous women and girls continue to experience many forms of violence at higher
I have a bit of Coharie in me but am mostly American mut and am embarrassed to know that anyone is treated like this and apologize for my people and their inactions.i’m sorry for your treatment and loss
This is going to be a dark one
How very sad for victims and their loved one. There has to be serial killers. Californa mourns your loss.
It would help if the government had a Rides transit bus running back and forth 2 - 3 times a day. If you're poor the rides are free. Put a license plate reader on the buses and start picking these men up. If she's a prostitute or hitch hiking doesn't matter and start the investigation immediately. These predators know where the "easy pickins" are so you have to get defensive and pick up all the clues especially the trucks and cars traveling thru when the girl became missing. May God bless their families.
Please do another documentary with the same host because she is a great host - warmth in her voice and comforting and bringing the missing girls and women to life with great empathy! I hope and pray these stories reach a witness or even a person that can help find the missing and are loved and missed so much!
Help! Please! 🙌🙏
She sounds gorgeous
This is touching .the only thing i can say god is gona judge us all some day
De tout coeur avec toutes ces femmes.
Courage et forces aux familles, et aux Peuples autochtones du Canada et de la Terre.
Vous êtes magnifiques.
With love from Paris-France ❤ 3:45
It breaks my heart hearing these stories about Indigenous women. They are human beings too. It's a sin that the authorities do not take these crimes committed against these women seriously. They should be punished for that. It's totally unacceptable 😢
Heartbreaking 💔💔 it's a multi facetted problem with multi facetted answers. To all the families who are suffering loss may the great spirit look after them sending big love from Scotland 🏴 ❤️ 🧡 💕 ♥️ 😢😢
Every moment of these videos break 💔💔💔 my heart. Native people are so beautiful. I am native and white. We ALL need to stand with them and help. Please be safe and keep fighting ❤❤❤.
I pray for all our missing sisters and children and men that have gone missing 😢may their souls find justice and peace one day. We surely need a Warrior Society to come forth to protect our less vulnerable evermore these days 🌌🌹💜🇨🇦
Just watched this. Amazing strong women. I feel very sad watching this. 😢😢😢😢😢❤❤
Eye of the storm ,nicely placed
Unfortunately they are targeted ❤
This is so horrific. These women are humans . We need to stop this unhumane action. These women are loved and wanted in life. STOP THIS.
Making drugs accessible isn't helping the problem off addiction has become worse
I wonder how many tiny bits of DNA, how many women & girls, were missed in all those big piles of earth from that farm. I can't imagine they found it all.
A lot, he was found guilty for 6 murders but according to the wiki there could be 30 victims in total 😭
@@marloeslovestea Tragic &, for me, extremely anger-provoking. 😠
I've always wondered this as well
#NEVERFORGET 💯💕💖❤️✨️🙏
My friend was murdered in calgary in the summer like a few years ago. She was my massage therapy school partner I want to knew what happend to Kori Creighton she to was a native woman
Paix à leurs âmes
Dawn's brother didn't sound like he cared, he kept saying, "she called @1:30 in the morning"...why not let her come to his house if he cared??
He was kinda being ironic. You can feel how much he loves Dawn and his family.
Men don’t care about women, my brother would care less if I went missing
My Heart is 💔broken for the Babies,children💔sexual abuse,and deaths. WE ARE HEARTBROKEN💔💔💔💔💔💔
society as a whole has changed and this everywhere. sad,very sad ! courage! addiction is a horrible master!
It’s not all of society, it’s men
I really wish with all my heart that all women were cautious or a lot more cautious and always CARRY SOMETHING TO DEFEND THEMSELVES! For me that would be the only way in which fewer women would be missing or dead.
🙏🙏🙏ALWAYS BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS AND TRUST NOBODY.
Great documentary
Something else watching and hearing families ,I know the intensity of love and injustice
How very tragic. My heart aches for them. May they be Resting In Peace. 🙏
serial killer vibes for sure
Sometimes i wonder if these killers has mothers sisters daughters nieces aunts .how can a man kill a woman ?without them life is a no no
Men do not respect women, we are prey to them
Mothers are a huge factor in wht these men do. Thinking of their mother gets them hunting,so to speak.
So sorry, the thought of their love ones do no curb the appetite for a kill.
@@dunique26 what? Men are violent and women and children are prey to them. I don’t know what a killer thinks other than men kill women every 5.5 hours in this country. We are not physically as strong as them and they know it.
There is no respect for women from men, they all think they are superior- everyone of them.
Canadians need to hold their gov accountable, something has got to happen to stop this!
The doctrine of discovery is responsible for all this.
Shocking treatment of these women. So sad. These women are so graceful even after all the violence rape and mis treatment they have encountered.
♥️Signs is getting ♥️better♥️Is being a ♥️DISCOVER♥️The main reason♥️I love♥️EVERYBODY♥️
Sad, and scary.
This about pinkton?
Blessings 🙏
Canadian here, living in Edmonton and Calgary. Yep. This is all true and continues to this day, the progress we made to repair the relationship with indigenous peoples is just a cover up, the deep seeded racism is sadly still there and it’s heartbreaking, please everyone do your own part and don’t be a racist person and truly stop this
Am heart broken and need someone to talk to right and forever
Disgusting, should had more charges than one freakn guy, Picton...system sucks...
Its appalling and so upsetting 😢
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Indigenous! There will be no more explanations! Never
The problem has existed since broken treaties and persecution of people who are apparently different. Always have been, and nothing will ever change ! Sadly
Oregon alone has according to a recent news article has 257k unsolved or missing
I lived in the Valley then, shame on our social programs. Shame on our policing system that allows this kind of prejudice against vulnerable women, persons. Please, always try to put yourself in someone else's story. Empathy should rule the world. Do something kind today people. ❤ pay it forward
Be proud❤❤
heartbreakingly sad
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✌🏻🇦🇺🌏🤘🏻
Love from ireland
I hope Canada make better equal rights and stop this killers.!💔Enough is 💔💔enough💔
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Human sacrifice
20:23
Some runaway and don't want to be found. My son's mother found her mother alive and well in the USA. Made front page news Vancouver Canada. Many don't want to be found but aren't dead.
How is this sicko monster still on the streets? Its mind blowing cause we all know at least 75% are never coming back statistically. Someones daughter, mother, sister or friend.
Life is precious, how can someone justify doing something so disturbing and evil, so sad.
How can some women disappear in Town and the police gets no clue from the cameras ???
Empty souls blowing through the streets.......
No, that is not a fair statement - you are a man, men kill women every 5.5 hours - you are the problem
Empty souls blowing through youtube as well, i see..
💔Canada💔don’t you think is ENOUGH ???? 💔Peace💔
With regard to the highway of tears, a reward system needs to be implemented to try and pu t a stop to the killings. If the Scott family can offer a hundred grand to find their daughter, surely the first nations bands along the highway can offer a similar reward to catch the killer(s).
As a Canadian i can confirm: I've never seen these women.
Trudy is taking care......
Looks cold
Look underneath the highways
Violence against all females needs to stop. Especially females who invisible! ❤️
How do you abuse someone who is invisible ?
@@erin.v.m657 An analogy. Not literally. Invisible as in not being treated how a human being should be. Not just a piece of meat. Hopefully you don't end up being veiwed as just that. You takecare. Bless
@@norfolkronin6307 ..I have been viewed like that when I was a kid. Sadly many of us have.
Why didn't you go get her?
Because men do not care nor respect women
We know it ,how does one get off the list ,or not on ,audit 12 ,22,33 and 80
because they were sexually abused and neglected.
12:30
Hopefully I will not be misunderstood but to Solve a big problem you first have to face reality in reasonable way, Here you 100% right if she was a white rich girl things would have been different but you also have to accept responsibility that Cause of her life style you can't put all blame on Cops and government for not spending millions on full force search ...
Again I totally understand and agree with a lot of other issues that needed to be done, I'm not saying cops was totally right but I wish you personally spared nothing helping her change her life instead of The effort Your doing now for her murder
I'm down in WASHINGTON State, I am a WHITE woman ,and I would be honored to see you JUNE 11 the 2024 on highway 16 ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Do not call a native women Sqaw is so disrespectful. Makes me Very Angry
Don't aboriginal women experience the highest rates of domestic violence in partnerships than any other demographic? Why don't people mention that fact when talking about missing and murdered aboriginal women?
Same with murdered black trans women. The perps are usually black men the victim knew. Often domestic partners.
Because this doc isn't about that. There are many docs that actually highlight the abuse in those relationship. Maybe, you should go find one since this one isn't wht your looking for.
@@dunique26 actually this doc is about that - this doc is about missing and murdered indigenous women, many of whom were murdered by their partners.
I posted that same comment just a minute ago. It 100 percent FACTS. If you go to their partners, about 80 percent of this would be solved.
@@dunique26This is exactly about that. Domestic Violence in those communities are higher than any other demographic. The ultimate form of domestic violence is being killed by intimate partners. If you got to where their partner is you will find your killer. OR there is a very sophisticated serial killer who knows this fact or knows that in this demographic who knows this fact and decides to prey upon those communities 🤔