Shirley Soosay's homecoming marks the end of Violet Soosay's lifelong search for her long-lost aunt. Shirley Soosay was murdered in 1980 and identified by DNA testing nearly 40 years later.
Posted: May 04, 2021 6:00 AM MT | Last Updated: May 4
Shirley Soosay from Samson Cree Nation was identified by her niece, Violet Soosay, and the work done by the DNA Doe Project.(Kern County Sheriff s Office/YouTube)
Violet Soosay never gave up the search for her aunt from Samson Cree Nation.
For almost 40 years, she travelled from Alberta
to Vancouver and Seattle, the last known places her aunt Shirley Soosay had been.
She visited hospitals, hostels, and cemeteries while on work trips in hopes of finding anything about her aunt s whereabouts. We always hit dead ends, said Soosay, an instructor of history, linguistics and Indigenous art at Maskwacis Cultural College in Maskwacis, Alta., 100 kilometres south of Edmonton.
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