What does it mean for a community to take the next step toward reconciliation?
Violence and injustices against First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women and girls continue in Canada.
May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. A day to recognize the violence and injustices against Indigenous women and girls, and to remember the sisters, mothers, daughters, aunties and friends who are still missing. Their families continue to long for closure and justice as Indigenous women continue to go missing or are murdered. (12x more than non-Indigenous women).
Hope Arises, an Indigenous-led charity, has offered hand-sewn red dresses to the downtown businesses in a demonstration of community unity, solidarity and an expression of Reconcili-ACTION.
“Seeing the red dresses in our downtown windows brought me to tears. It is respect, truth and knowing that each dress represents a mother, sister, auntie, grandmother, daughter and friend. Lost,” said Hope Arises Founder Joyce Jonathan Crone.
“My personal reflection is about how the families feel. There is no closure. How can we continue to miss our children?” she questioned.
The red dresses will be in storefronts until May 5, 2026.
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