Minnie Sutherland, Indigenous women -- Canada -- Biography, Treatment of Indigenous peoples -- Canada, Treatment of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous women 

"Minnie Sutherland, a 40-year-old native woman living in Ottawa sets out on New Year's Eve for the fireworks display on Parliament Hill. She ends up across the river in Hull, Quebec, hit by a car and left in a snowbank by two police officers. An hour later she is back in Ottawa, unconscious on a downtown street. By the time she is admitted to hospital - cause unknown - she has been diagnosed as drunk by an ambulance attendant, refused entry at a detoxification centre, and deserted by her companions.

Author John Nihmey invites us to join Minnie Sutherland and her friends for a New Year's Eve celebration few of us will soon forget. He combines gripping narrative with a mosaic of official statements, inquest testimony, and personal recollections to bring to life the early hours of January 1, 1989. On our journey through the events surrounding Minnie's death, we discover her life, and in the process, something unsettling about ourselves."--Back cover.