Red Dress Day recognizes Indigenous lives lost in Windsor and far beyond, say organizers – CBC

May 06, 2024

Can-Am Indian Friendship Centre honours missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

Red Dress Day began as a memorial for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across Canada — but for some attendees of a Windsor, Ont., gathering on Sunday, the awareness campaign relates to situations elsewhere in the world.

“Nothing has changed. The plundering of the land, the murder,” said Mona Stonefish, an elder of the Anishinaabe alliance known as the Three Fires Confederacy.”

“We’re still going to love, and we’re still going to fight, because we have to find a way to stop the violence. Not only here, but all over the world,” Stonefish continued.

“I have to mention Gaza, because education is one of the greatest tools that we have… There are thousands of women and children being murdered (there). And it’s the same thing that happened to us here in Canada.”

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