I WANNA CRY ~ The Voices

The first time I learned about Canadian missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls was in a 2012 phone conversation with my sister, Joyce Musqua Meyerhoffer, of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. I asked Joyce for more information. After some time passed, I received a number of newspaper clippings from her about the victims and their families. According to the families, there seemed to be no sense of urgency by local authorities to investigate the cases.

After further research, I found that reports of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls began as far back as the 1970s in British Columbia, on Canada’s Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert. This area is now known as the “Highway of Tears.”

Indigenous missing and murdered women and girls of Canada, as well as those of the USA and world-wide, deserve news coverage.

I WANNA CRY honors the sanctity of life and is interpreted/sung by “the Voices” of women and girls. During the recording tears were shed. I want to thank all who participated in this project.

—Bobby Bullet St.Germaine