Investigators at Quebec reserve years after disappearance of Indigenous teens

Police are also meeting with about 20 witnesses, she said.

“It is a small village where everyone knows each other so they can help us to go through the grounds,” she said in an interview. “The community is really helping us through this.”

Odjick has spent the past nine years searching for answers since the pair of teenagers disappeared from the reserve near Maniwaki, Que., and has become an outspoken advocate about missing and murdered Indigenous women including at a number of rallies on Parliament Hill.

She is now member of an advisory group of family members giving advice to the national inquiry into the issue.

Bernie Williams, another member of the group who has lost three sisters and her mother, said Wednesday said she can’t imagine what Odjick is going through right now.

“My heart goes out to all the families who are directly affected,” she said. “It affects all of us too because … we are all impacted by all of this.”

Chief commissioner Marion Buller also issued a statement Wednesday saying she suspects new information will be released and memories will be refreshed as the inquiry proceeds with its work and triggers memories.

“People will come forward to the proper authorities about what they have remembered or discovered,” she said. “This is part of the truth gathering process.”

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Kristy Kirkup, The Canadian Press

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Investigators at Quebec reserve years after disappearance of Indigenous teens

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