In Canada, a daughter's fight to bring her murdered mother home
Winnipeg, Canada - The last time Elle Harris saw her mother, she was on a bus in Winnipeg's North End.
It was a chance encounter. Elle was 16 and making her way to work when she spotted Morgan slouched near the back of the bus.
She was in the grips of drug-induced psychosis - her eyes vacant and unfocused, her body rocking back and forth as her lips moved in silent conversation with someone who wasn't there.
When their eyes met, there was no flicker of recognition. The woman who had once gently braided her hair and read her bedtime stories now stared through her.
Elle got off at the next stop and sobbed as she watched the bus pull away.
This reporting was supported by the International Women's Media Foundation's Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and Transgender People (MMIWG2T).
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