Memoir set in Vancouver – Angela Sterritt

Submitted: 3rd March 2023

Unbroken is a remarkable book. It’s about the untold or unheard story of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The author herself is Gitxsan who survived life on the streets against all odds. She is now a journalist so she can write from the heart with her skills and background.

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Genre: non-fiction. memoir

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Reading about Indigenous peoples of Canada is something I have done ever since I visited the country for the first time. When I read about Angela Sterritt’s experience however, I was shocked. It sounded like something you ‘expect’ to read and indeed I have, from women in Mexico – those who go missing and are never found.

Angela writes about her life in downtown Vancouver. Vancouver is a beautiful city, one of the most stunning in the world I think, but it has its ugly side. Angela writes about the Downtown Eastside and Northern BC’s Highway of Tears. This was where she grew up, where she knew. Years later, she would become a journalist and start highlighting her people’s stories. Stories which shouldn’t happen of course, but ones that if they do, should be highlighted so that they don’t happen again.

I was sad to read that Angela was kicked out of her family home when young. She had many problems navigating the world around her so extra kudos to her for becoming a journalist and highlighting these stories to the world. She is a survivor and now writing to help others do the same. What a remarkable woman.

Today she is a member of the Gitxsan Nation and lives on Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh territories, Vancouver, Canada. Her story is amazing and I really admire her strength and passion for wanting to protect Indigenous women and girls, for telling her story and for writing with such compassion and understanding.