Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story missing women What emerges in Sword's Lakota

What emerges in Sword's Lakota narratives are the formulaic patterns inherent in the Lakota language that are used to tell the narratives

Using archival and ethnographic research

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(Summer Beaver) 500 kilometers north of Thunder Bay in Northern Ontario

Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story missing women What emerges in Sword's LakotaHelen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and her family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially met with silence and indifference, her tragic murder resonates loudly today. Betty represents one of almost 1,200 Indigenous women in Canada who have