Hi! You might be a stranger but most likely you’re a friend, so welcome to my blog. It needs attention but that University life was killer ahaha.
If we met after high school, you probably don’t know this information because I haven’t shared it with anyone who knew me after that point. Not because it’s a secret or something to hide, I just didn’t want to. It’s a weird relationship carrying around a big life-changing event especially if you spend energy constantly trying to stifle and ignore it.
My auntie was Tiffany Morrison and you can get plenty of information on her and her story if you google her thanks to my mom’s amazing dedication to keeping her story alive. I would recommend looking it up but I’ll give a general run down here.
Actually HERE is a pretty good article from CBC
June 18 2006, the summer after I graduated from elementary school, Tiffany went out to have some fun. She left her daughter with my grandma and said she’d be back later. The last we know is that she was seen getting into a taxi leaving Hiraki Bar in Lasalle with the intention to go home in Kahnawake.
May 31, 2010 her remains were found beside the Mercier Bridge in Kahnawake that is now her memorial site. The area was previously just a bush area between the road and train tracks. Since then it has been cleared up a bit to make room for a bike path connecting the Clay Mountain area and central Kahnawake. I can’t stress how close this site is to my childhood home and grandparents house. We searched so long and so far and she was right there.
As you can imagine it’s not easy talking about this, which is why I admire and support my mom who has made it her mission the last 10 years to keep sharing my auntie’s story. Anyone who has to do this is incredible and deserves all the love and respect in the world.
My Auntie was 12ish years older than me when I was born. That’s only a year difference from the gap between me and my little sister. I feel the need to mention that because for whatever reason people tend to dismiss or downplay the effect she had on me once they realize she was my auntie. She was more like a sister and you can’t know how important someone is to someone else unless you physically are them, so keep that in mind when talking to friends, cousins and so on of people who have gone missing or were murdered.
I know that the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women issue has nabbed a bit of the spot light recently, which is great. We have found amazing friends and a strong bond with the families of other women in this sphere. When no one else was helpful or able to understand we were able to be there for each other, which is priceless.
This year is the 10 year anniversary of my auntie Tiffany’s murder. We need to remind the public that this is still an on going case and we need those with any information to come forward and help us find her murderer.
There will be a march and vigil on June 18 2016 in Kahnawake and everyone is welcome to come. If you don’t really know us but want to show support anyway, please come! We always welcome new friends and would greatly appreciate your support.
Details are still being worked on but the event is on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1161031877263894/1167231949977220/
We are working to have buses that can bring people to and from the event in Kahnawake from the Angrignon Metro Station for those that need it. We are always open to information that might be helpful like info on:
- sound system options
- t shirt printers
Thanks for checking this post out and I hope I wasn’t too awkward or rambly, if I was forgive me haha.