The Town of Okotoks is honouring those who are missing and murdered – Highriver Online

Apr 29 2024

The Town of Okotoks is hosting a Pipe Ceremony to honour the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples.

The ceremony will happen in Ethel Tucker Park on Sunday, May 5th, and there will be a special guest speaker.

Blackfoot Elder Ruth Scalp Lock is a residential school survivor from Siksika First Nation, and founded the Awo Taan Native Healing Lodge, which is a safe space for Indigenous women and children who are escaping from abuse, and will be the speaker at the event.

‘Awo Taan’ is Blackfoot for Shield, which was a name first given to Lock’s grandmother, Margaret Bad Boy, in 1930, as it recognized her role as a protector of women and children.

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