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Article: The violence that Indigenous women face.(INDIAN COUNTRY)

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March 1, 2005
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The city of Port Coquitlam is currently primed for the much-anticipated B.C. Supreme Court case concerning the serial murders of 15 women (from a list of 61) reported as missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside since 1983. In northern British Columbia there are increasing demands for official answers about the "Highway of Tears," a section of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert along which predominantly Aboriginal women have gone missing, and are presumed dead. Last year in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, a young native woman was dragged to her death by a pickup truck after a racialized alteration outside a city bar.

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