Patricia Turner always knew her aunt, Elizabeth Dorion, was talented when it came to beadwork.

“She would make about 20 lighter cases and sell them fast,” Turner said.

Dorion, who was born and raised on the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba, made the crafts in one week, something Turner hasn’t seen anyone else do in such a short amount of time.

“She did a lot of beadwork and she would sell it to people to take care of herself.”

Besides her beadwork, Turner misses having Dorion around.

“She really liked joking around,” she said while laughing herself.

Turner says Dorion was really good with her kids and spent a lot of time with them.

“When she wanted to stay sober she would stay home with the kids and she would cook for them really good meals.”

According to the Pukatawagan RCMP, Dorion was reported missing on Nov. 13, 1999.

She was last seen on Sept. 20, 1999 at a local fish camp called Mile 94, between Manitoba’s The Pas and Pukatawagan. In her younger years, she spent months on the trapline with her parents.

Turner was the one to report her aunt missing. At the time, Dorion was living with her on the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.

She says she tried to report her missing earlier but the RCMP detachments in The Pas and Pukatawagan would not take her concerns seriously.

Turner last saw Dorion on Sept. 15, 1999.

Dorion said she had plans to come back before Sept. 19, 1999 as it was election day on the reserve.

“She said, ‘I will be back next week. I am going to come and vote.’ I said, ‘where are you going?’ And then she said, ‘I am going to go visit with my friend.’”

A release issued by the Manitoba Association of Chiefs of Police says two ground searches of the area were done, both with no results.

But Turner says those searches were not thorough.

“It is the worst because they didn’t even try help us,” she said.

She says her aunt was written off by police and society.

“Maybe like she was just another “drunken Native,”” she said.

Turner says her aunt became an alcoholic after her common law husband, Paul Bignell, died.

“Not long after that she got the kids taken away,” she said about the two children Dorion and Bignell had together.

“When she lost her partner, she totally lost it. She didn’t know how to handle... She didn’t want to do anything after that.”

Dorion had a daughter from a previous relationship.

Because she had her at a young age, that daughter was adopted by another family in the community.

Turner says Dorion felt bad about not raising her children, and remembers she would spend a lot of time talking about them.

She would like to see a federal inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous people, including men.

She says one will bring forward systemic problems, including how the child welfare system has taken too many children away from their homes.

Turner no longer has contact with investigators.

“I don’t know if it’s open or not but she’s still missing,” she said about the case.

Nearly two years after Dorion went missing, Turner dreamed of her.

That’s when she went to Mile 94 to offer prayers for her aunt. She even sought help from a Cree elder.

“A traditional healer told us that she’s inside a stream or a river or a lake,” Turner said.

She and many others in the family believe Dorion died suspiciously and her body is in the water up north.

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