Events

Lorraine Clair led a Red Dress Day walk through Elsipogtog First Nation on May 5 to raise awareness for MMIWG, with red dresses displayed along the highway.

On May 5, 2024, Surrey Schools will observe Red Dress Day by displaying red dresses and engaging students in educational activities inspired by Jaime Black’s REDress Project, aiming to raise awareness and support for MMIWG2S, with students encouraged to share reflections on social media using specific hashtags.

“Warrior Up! – Nevaeh Pine: The Voice of Disruption” is an episode featuring Nevaeh Pine’s advocacy for MMIWG through a high school assembly, aiming to raise awareness and inspire youth activism.

In June 2023, Lac La Biche student Riley Gladue created a powerful painting to raise awareness for MMIWG, featuring traditional Indigenous symbolism and the iconic red handprint.

To mark Red Dress Day, the NWAC organized events on May 5 and May 6, 2023, to come together, honour lost loved ones and shine a spotlight on the MMIWG2S+ genocide. These events included guided visits to their MMIWG2S+ exhibit, a faceless doll workshop, the unveiling of a painting, a roundtable, prayers, drumming, and singing.

On May 5th, 2023, students from Langford schools marched down Goldstream Avenue to honour Red Dress Day, singing, drumming, and participating in a ceremony to raise awareness for MMIWG2S+.

Grade 10 students at Maple Ridge Secondary School hung red dresses on trees to honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Their “Say Her Name, Walk Her Walk” project aimed to walk 725 kilometers but reached 3,098 km. The event included traditional drumming and singing to celebrate Indigenous women’s strength.

This gathering is open to all families who have a missing and murdered loved one within Canada. This gathering is for Southern Alberta families regardless of race, culture or Ethnicity.

Nearly four years after Nadine Machiskinic died from injuries sustained at the Delta Hotel in Regina, a University of Saskatchewan student, Kayla Lavallee, encouraged people to boycott the hotel. Ochapowace First Nation then decided to move the Christmas party that was set to take place at the hotel after receiving Lavallee’s request, in solidarity with Machiskinic’s family.