ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an ethnographically-informed creative non-fiction essay that dialogues and works with trends in critical anti-racist feminist geography addressing colonial violence and Indigenous peoples and spaces. The essay contemplates remote and overlooked places in Northern British Columbia (Canada) located along Highway 16. Highway 16 is colloquially known as 'The Highway of Tears' because of the 18 (or more) mostly Indigenous women who have been murdered or gone missing along its shoulders. Drawing on the literary flexibility offered by creative non-fiction, and on more than two decades of working and publishing in the genre, the chapter employs multiple textual registers in this essay, from poetic language to research interviews, from staccato sentence structures to sound assemblages, from other academic texts to excerpts from popular media. This assemblage style is meant to evoke the variety of emotional and material places making up the always colonially-impacted geographies along Highway 16.
