At dawn’s first light, with fresh snow blanketing the ground, Dale Good is chopping firewood, each crack of his axe splitting the logs in half. Nearby, a group of totems silently watches over him and his community of Gitanyow, an Indigenous village in remote northern B.C.
It’s in quiet moments like these that he thinks about his son, Zachary.
“I still write to him on [Facebook] Messenger on his birthdays, wherever I feel lost,” Good said. “I tell him I love him, I miss him, and that I wish he were still here.”
But Zachary Turner-Good will never answer. He was killed
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