National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
by Lori Nelson
May 5th is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, also sometimes called Red Dress Day.
Today, we encourage you to learn more about what the National Inquiry Report reveals as the “persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses that are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people.”
This link – https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/ – will lead you to Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Photo credit: National Indigenous Women’s Resource Centre
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Did you know?
Both the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Northwest Company operated on the Lake of the Woods, and would often sabotage each others equipment at portage sites.