Red Dress Day is an annual movement to honour missing and murdered Indigenous people
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“The red dresses symbolize those who went missing,” said Leanna Curtis, the Indigenous healthcare advocate for the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society. “The red dress represents the bloodline and the connection between people. According to lore, red is the only colour spirits can see. The red dresses aid in calling the spirits the missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirited people back to their loved ones,” said Curtis.
During the summer break, her siblings never spoke about their experiences at boarding school, and Marie-August said she did not know what to expect. At age five, she was just excited to be with her siblings and the older kids on the bus. However, as the bus got closer to the residential school near, her siblings told her, “you have nothing to be happy about. Not a thing.”
As a result of the trauma and feelings of abandonment she endured, Marie-August said that she survived many bad and dangerous relationships.
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