Highway of Tears

In Canada, indigenous women are six times more likely than white women to meet a violent end. The ‘Highway of Tears’ is an endless highway in the province of British Columbia, Canada, where since the 1970s at least nineteen, but by unofficial estimates over 40, women and girls have disappeared. Most of them belonged to the indigenous population. These incidents are not isolated, but are said to be the result of more than a hundred years of colonial policy. Until well into the 1990’s, indigenous children were snatched from their families to be placed in boarding schools. These schools were meant to destroy 'the Indian in the child', but in many cases irreparably damaged the child itself. We speaks to relatives of Ramona, who went missing along the Highway of Tears twenty-five years ago. According to her parents, the disappearances still haven’t come to an end.