Multiple events on the South Island will mark Red Dress Day today, the national day of awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
On Friday, Doreen Scow had a five-minute speech ready for the Red Dress Day ceremony in Langford that was attended by hundreds of students from the Sooke School District.“I felt like I had to mention my late cousin Carsyn too, because since her passing, Red Dress has been a lot more significant to me,” Scow said.
“I’m still trying to process everything that happened yesterday,” she said in an interview Saturday. “Hearing what they had to say just really, really shook me to the core.” “I’ve learned over the years that there’s ways to not sugarcoat it, but also not traumatize the students,” said Scow, who does cultural teachings for the school district.
Two Indigenous women are organizing an overnight vigil at the B.C. legislature, that will begin today at 5 p.m. and end on Monday at 7 p.m.Co-organizer Priscilla Omulo, who is a member of the Tsartlip First Nation, said the process of reporting a missing person, putting up posters, and searching for a missing family member is hard to convey to people who haven’t experienced it. “Until it happens to you, you don’t really understand the challenge.
“We’ve had a family member who has been shot and killed by RCMP. We have a family member who was murdered, whose assailants have not been brought to justice,” she said.
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