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Morton” Hitchhiking and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A Critical Discourse
Analysis of Billboards on the Highway of Tears" The Canadian Journal of Sociology /Cahiers
This particular study was conducted by Katherine Morton that was focused on the
British Columbia issue related to hitchhiking and the dangers that arise from the extensive
highways and the tough situations that succumb to indigenous women in the country. The key
elements of this study align with contentious mobility defined as unconventional and none
institutionalized since the actualization of the term does not conform to standards that can be
The paper raises some fundamental problems that have been continuously reproaching and
recurring problems. The paper puts across various partisan social-political issues that promote
aggression and demeanour that indigenous people, especially women, have been
Tears that insinuate a dangerous and otherwise fearful highway have lived up to this name.
This particular highway is identified as passing along the native communities' settlements and
bare lands. An elaborate conclusion to this, made by the author, is such an area gives room for
unscrupulous characters to engage in their vile acts that foster towards the indigenous.
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People and, more particularly, the women and girls. As a result of such unspeakable activities on
this highway, organizations such regional district of Kitimat-Stikine, Ghitxkan First Nation, and
the province of British Columbia set up billboards along the extensive highways. This billboard
in the study is said to be returning set up in different areas. At this juncture, the author argues the
Arguments are drawn from three models of analysis to employ critical understanding
fosters their credibility and assurance to the reader. These methods are Fairclough's method of
critical discourse analysis(microanalysis) and mezzo analysis. Within the context of this analysis,
the traditional elements of gender, race, colonization and stigmatization are discussed. They
bring to light the issues of poverty, ignorance, and willful compromises. According to the author,
hitchhiking by the indigenous people cannot be assumed to be carelessness on their part, but
rather an occurrence was borne of the positioning of these communities, and the deprivations
succumbed, forcing their indulgence. Furthermore, to some extent, the models show the
government's efforts fostered towards securing hitchhikers and warding them against the
engagement.
The author critically analyses this issue and provisions a stand towards looking at it more as a
social-political issue and measuring the need to cater and foster the indigenous women's
Morton's stand approves my notion of a liable community and efforts that should be sustained
and made elaborate to guarantee the safety and development of marginalized people.
I agree with her extensive discussion exhibited in her wide coverage of the issue.