The Guardians // 041

19-year-old Serena “Serenity” McKay is reported missing on Sunday, April 23rd, 2017 in the Sagkeeng Anicinabe First Nations reserve in Manitoba, CA. After just two hours of searching, a community elder comes across her badly beaten and mutilated body. Police are slow to release details of the investigation - but the existence of a horrific video clip of the teen’s murder suddenly appears on Facebook, and within hours - goes viral. Soon, an entire community knows exactly who killed Serena McKay - long before the arrests have even been announced.   

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• Serena McKay’s killer sentenced to 40 months in jail

• Inquiry on missing, murdered Indigenous women released

• Woman convicted in killing of Serena McKay denied early release to go to university

• 17-year-old gets maximum youth sentence in videotaped beating death of Serena McKay

• Judge urged to impose 7-year adult sentence for teen who pleaded guilty in Serena McKay's death

• Woman, 18, pleads guilty to murder of Sagkeeng First Nation schoolmate shown beaten in online videos

• By Wednesday - CBC had publicly confirmed that both a short 

• Sagkeeng First Nation has most unsolved cases of missing or murdered indigenous women

• Girls arrested in homicide of Serena McKay, 19, in Sagkeeng First Nation

• Sagkeeng Anicinabe 

• On the viral death of a B.C. teen: What came first, cruel intentions or an addiction to creating content?

• Reacting To Serena Mckay Live Murder Video (viewer discretion is advised)

• 2 Teen Girls Arrested For 2nd Degree Murder Of Serena Mckay; Teens Shared Footage Of Assault On Social Media

• April 2017 Weather in Winnipeg — Graph

• Snapchat/FB Messenger Screenshots

• Man charged in double homicide was principal of Sagkeeng high school, chief says

• Canadian police investigate Facebook beating video in murder case

• RCMP arrest suspect in 2017 double homicide in St-Georges, Man.

• Sagkeeng students experience Vimy memorial firsthand

• 'I despise myself everyday': Teen guilty of manslaughter apologizes to Serena McKay's family

• Serena McKay: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

• Sagkeeng First Nation

• Canadian Indian residential school system

• Fort Alexander Residential School

• Fort Alexander (MB)

• 'We're just trying to cope, we miss her every single day': Serena McKay's mother

• Attackers threaten to kill victim in video linked to Serena McKay homicide

• Live streaming crime: How do we police the internet?

• Video of assault on Facebook

• Rally organizer wants people who saw Serena McKay beating video to submit victim impact statements

• OJIBWAY CLAN SYSTEM

• 'I long to hear her voice': Serena McKay's mother speaks at killer's sentencing hearing

• Calls for justice for Serena McKay

• Show of love for slain young woman

• Winnipeg vigil to honour Serena McKay draws hundreds

• Winnipeg Rally for Serena McKay 

• Bear Clan Patrol Inc

• Serena McKay vigil, RRC expansion 

• Sagkeeng First Nation holds vigil for Serena McKay

• Friends, family grieve Sagkeeng homicide victim 

• 'She's in a good place,' says elder who found body of Serena McKay, as vigil begins in Sagkeeng

• 'There's still grief and there's still sorrow' in Sagkeeng a year after Serena McKay's death

• Elder Dave Courchene, Turtle Lodge, Sagkeeng First Nation

• Dave Courchene

• THE LEGACY OF RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS AT MCGILL

• Former Sagkeeng First Nation principal sentenced to life in prison for vigilante killings of drug dealers

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “Memoir” by Lincoln Davis

• Closing Track: “Ocean Tide” by Markus Huber

Music & Sound Effect Sources

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