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Starlight tour : the last, lonely night of Neil Stonechild / Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud.
TITLE:
Starlight tour : the last, lonely night of Neil Stonechild / Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud.
Publication Date:
2005
Publication Information:
[Toronto] : Random House Canada,
Physical Description:
431 p. : ill.
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Summary:
A teen’s suspicious death, a shocking police cover-up and a mother’s search for the truth. In 1990, on a November night that hit –28 degrees Celsius, seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared only blocks from his mother’s home. His frozen body was found three days later, eight kilometres from where he was last seen in downtown Saskatoon. The police investigation was cursory — no one seemed to wonder about the abrasions on his wrists or the scrapes on his face, or the fact that he was missing a shoe. Neil was drunk and out walking, the police believed, and had died by misadventure. His mother, Stella Bignell, tried her best to push for answers, but no one in authority wanted to listen to a native woman whose sons had often been in trouble with the law. But Stella did not give up, and neither did the only witness, sixteen-year-old Jason Roy, who had seen Neil, beaten and bleeding, in the back of a Saskatoon police cruiser the night he disappeared. Starlight Tour recounts their struggle for justice in the face of indifferent officials, destroyed police files and institutionalized racism.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780679313076