Posted on 01/04/2006 8:18:02 PM PST by Stoat
Brittany Bearspaw, an accomplished 16-year-old with dreams of becoming a lawyer, was killed Sunday morning on the highway near her hometown of Morley, west of Calgary. Police believe she was then run over by more vehicles. "That's the part that really gets to us. How can you not feel running over a person?" said John Sedo, Brittany's father. "If even one of them had pulled over — but both of them took off."
Cochrane RCMP received several reports, starting at around 7:20 a.m. Sunday, that a person was walking in traffic near the Morley exit. "We got a few calls from people saying that they had almost hit this person," said Cpl. Roger Waidson.
When the responding officer arrived 15 minutes later, he found a man walking by the side of the road and pulled over to speak to him. The man had seen what looked like a body on the road and had been trying to prevent more cars from hitting it.
"He saw her on the road and saw at least three vehicles drive over her," Waidson said. "He was quite shaken by what he had seen. He didn't want to move her, so he was trying to stop the cars and get someone to help." Bearspaw's family described her as an avid athlete and mentor to her four younger siblings. She had just been accepted to Canmore Collegiate High School.
They returned Monday to the place where she was hit to gather pieces of the cars that hit her, clothing and any other debris from the incident. Everything was to be placed in a bag and buried with Bearspaw, helping to release her spirit to the heavens, said her father. "We went this morning and did a prayer," said Sedo. "We had an elder come with us.
"But even after we bury her ... how can we live life when two people who drove over her are having a gay old time in the mountains?" Sedo said the family has been through this before.
Five years ago, Brittany's second cousin, Oliver Rollinmud, was killed along the same stretch of highway by a hit-and-run driver. No one was ever charged in Rollinmud's death. Sedo and his wife, Geraldine Bearspaw, want nothing more than to have the drivers who hit their daughter come forward and accept responsibility.
"What I want is closure. I want these people to know what they've taken from us," he said. "I was proud of her all the time. She impressed me. I was always amazed."
(((((BLUSHING)))))) You're welcome.....but it's easy to speak the truth :-) And thank you for your kind words as well :-)
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I was born in the USA, too, but have relatives up there. All I know is that not many Indians are encouraged to get off of the reservations or get into business. Canada doles a little out to them, and too many of them remain separated from the rest of the society.
Down here, we more often offer them chances to get off of the reservations and into schools and jobs outside of those places. Quite a few people married them in the USA a very long time ago--at least in the eastern half of this country.
"No one seems to have noticed or commented on this staggering piece of information. The parent(s) of a sixteen-year-old girl let her stay out all night at a party and then walk home alone? Interesting attitude toward parenting. They can cry and say they're grieved at her death, but they have some responsibility in it."
Hey! This is Canada we're discussing. I thought the Canadians didn't raise their children, but just left them to develop on their own...like snakes.
"Sorry if I seem naive about Canada.....I've made it a point to avoid visiting Canada for a great many years because it seems that many of Canada's people and Government officials have not been terribly congenial toward us Yanks."
Ditto
PM blames Bush and American values, as well as American cars
It's a sad story. Perhaps they all thought they had hit a deer if it was dark? Another piece of info you guys missed:
"Brittany Bearspaw, an accomplished 16-year-old with dreams of becoming a LAWYER."
I don't think it's funny shes dead, but when i read that part of wanting to be a lawyer, and her being run over by 3 cars on a hiway, i nearly fell off my chair laughing my azz off!
No one seems to have noticed or commented on this staggering piece of information. The parent(s) of a sixteen-year-old girl let her stay out all night at a party and then walk home alone? Interesting attitude toward parenting.
--I noticed and I have to agree. That is one of the many differences between us, as parents, and them. No child of mine would have stayed out all night and WALKED home at 16 at 7 am. JMHO
"I should think that the police would have collected this stuff as evidence to use in catching the people who ran over her."
Yes, that's what I was thinking. It does no good to bury the evidence. If they did this with the poor cousin that died it's no wonder no one was ever caught for it. No lo comprendo.
I was going to post that same thing earlier, but got distracted. Everything I've heard is that Indians are considered, at best, second class citizens, if citizens at all. At worst, they're considered sub-human; not worthy of the attention and rights as everyone else.
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