Subject Guides: The Highway of Tears : Theses and Dissertations

Selected Theses & Dissertations

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Pearce, Maryanne. An Awkward Silence: Missing and Murdered Vulnerable Women and the Canadian Justice System. Diss. University of Ottawa, 2013. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.
- In addition to her dissertation, Maryanne Pearce has released a spreadsheet of the missing and murdered women in Canada that she identified in her research. She indicated that there are 824 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Here is the Winnipeg Free Press article that discusses her spreadsheet.
Tallman, Rebecca A. Representations of security and insecurity in the Highway of Tears: a critical discourse analysis. MA thesis. University of Northern British Columbia, 2014. Print.

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