Alloway Library joins with University Siyá:m, Patti Victor as she hosts a Red Dress Event on the Langley campus to raise awareness of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls on Feb 14 and 15. Victor and library staff member Janet Kreiter will set up the StoryWalk they put together last year and as part of that ceremony, will hang red dresses on the trees surrounding the Remembrance Garden (between Reimer and Douglas), This will follow traditional Sto:lo protocol and we will begin at noon on February 14. Red dresses will also be hung in the library.
Red Dress Day began in 2010, when artist Jaime Black (of mixed Anishinaabe and Finnish descent) responded to the more than a thousand missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada by creating an art installation of red dresses. Since then, May 5 has been established as the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) in Canada, also called Red Dress Day.
Read more about the campus event
Selected online resources for further study
- Campus violence, Indigenous women, and the policy void
- Forever Loved : Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
- In My Own Moccasins : A Memoir of Resilience
- Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
- Sharing Our Stories of Survival : Native Women Surviving Violence
- Systemic oppression, violence, and healing in Aboriginal families and communities.
- Violence Against Indigenous Women : Literature, Activism, Resistance
Additional print resources are on display and available for borrowing at Alloway Library
If I go missing / text by Brianna Jonnie and Nahanni Shingoose ; art by Neal Shannacapp o.
Missing Nimâmâ / Melanie Florence ; illustrated by François Thisdale.
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