On May 15, the broken body of a 15-year-old Quw’utsun Mustimuhw girl was found behind a Super-8 Motel in the Cowichan Valley, on Vancouver Island. Passers-by found her buried under a pile of wood pallets and garbage. She died soon after.   The case was investigated by the local Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment.
  • daisy
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    1 year ago

    The writer didn't use the phrase in the article, but it's worth reading up on "starlight tours". That was the practice of driving an indigenous person out to the middle of nowhere in cold weather, making sure they weren't wearing winter clothing, and leaving them to die of hypothermia.