Starlight Tours were not a myth but a dark reality where Saskatoon police abducted Indigenous individuals in winter, abandoning them in freezing conditions. Despite Indigenous communities advocating for investigations into suspicious deaths, police often dismissed these as intoxication-related incidents. While the phenomenon dates back to at least the 1970s, it purportedly peaked from the 1990s to the 2000s. Despite some convictions related to incidents, police accountability for the Starlight Tours remains elusive, highlighting systemic racism and a troubling legacy of violence against Indigenous people.
"Turns out, Starlight Tours were real and that it was the police who were doing it. The police in Saskatoon would grab Indigenous people during the winter months and abandon them on the city outskirts to die."
"To many indigenous people, it was never an urban legend but instead an open act of violence. To many non-indigenous communities, people thought it was somewhere between an urban legend or an exaggeration..."
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