For 22 years, Sandra McNeil never had a place to grieve for her mom.
Dawn Carisse, who is Abenaki, disappeared in 2001 after fleeing the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital, where she was admitted after a brain injury caused short-term memory loss.
To this day, Carisse’s case remains unresolved.
“I don’t have a gravesite or anything I can actually go to … visit or talk to her,” McNeil said.
Having this monument here, it’s bringing — not necessarily closure — but a place for me to come to, because I don’t have that.- Laura Lacrosse, daughter of murdered Indigenous woman
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