It was 10 years ago to the day, on May 31, 2007, that Carlick’s sister, Angel, was last seen alive. Angel Carlick was weeks from her high school graduation, working at a local shelter. After losing her daughter, Wendy Carlick grew more protective of the young women she knew on the streets, becoming an outspoken advocate for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Since the 1950s, an estimated 42 indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been murdered in the Yukon. “We have to stop this cycle, at some point,” said Dorothy Hayes, who lost two siblings and an aunt to violence, as well as her cousins Wendy and Angel Carlick.

Source: National Post June 03, 2017 02:15 UTC