Sarah Skunk, a 33-year-old Indigenous woman, was last seen by immediate family during a visit to relatives in Mishkeegogamang First Nation and Shabaqua, Ontario, around January 1, 1986. Family members say that was the last time they saw or heard from her; she was not formally declared missing until 1995. Reports and official files give conflicting last-seen dates, with some records listing 1995 and a U.S. missing person file created in February 2000 linked to Seattle, Washington.

Sarah grew up one of eleven children and was removed from her home community at age 12 and sent to a reform school; sisters say that separation left her changed and withdrawn when she briefly returned in 1976. Over the years there were unconfirmed sightings in Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, British Columbia, Vancouver, Sudbury and Washington State, and family members say she used several aliases. DNA taken from her mother, Eva, was compared to unidentified remains but produced no matches.

The family shared testimony about Sarah at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Does anyone have information about Sarah’s movements after 1986 or the reported sightings in Thunder Bay or on the West Coast?