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Red was chosen for the dresses because it is powerful and eye-catching, and represents both vitality and violence. The idea of empty red dresses was inspired by the cover of The Book of Jessica: A Theatrical Transformation, co-authored by Linda GriffithsĪnd Métis author Maria Campbell. Black also worked near the community of Indigenous murder victim Helen Betty Osborne. Red dresses are also frequently hung outside, from trees, houses or statues, to bring awareness to the crisis.īlack was inspired to create the installation after hearing Métis writer and educator Jo-Ann Episkenew speak about the missing and murdered women and witnessing a group of women in Bogotá, Colombia wearing red dresses and raising awareness for missingįamily members. The REDress Project is now a permanent exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and has been exhibited in Canadian universities, legislatures, hospitals and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Received hundreds of donated red dresses from across the country. The project gained attention, and Black soon REclaim our sovereignty as indigenous women.” The first installation was at the University of Winnipeg in March 2011. She described her artwork: “Through the REDress Project, the spirits of the missing or murdered women and girls stand with us here today, giving us courage, strength and clarity - leading us forward on the path to Black gathered and hung hundreds of empty, red dresses to represent the missing and murdered Métis artist Jaime Black began the REDress Project, an art installation, in 2010.

Knowledge Keeper, expert and institutional hearings held across Canada: 9.

Community hearings held across Canada: 15.

Experts, Knowledge Keepers and officials who provided testimony: 83.

Individuals who shared through artistic expressions: 819.

Family members and survivors who provided testimony: 1,484.

Total number of participants in the Truth Gathering Process: 2,386.

legal imperatives to address, end and redress the crisis. The Inquiry’s final report was published in June 2019 and proclaimed that MMIWG2S is “a national tragedy of epic proportion.” The report outlined 231 Calls for Justice Over theĬourse of two years, 24 hearings were held and 2,386 people participated in the process. The Inquiry’s mandate was to examine and report on the crisis and its causes. In December 2015, the federal government pledged over $53 million for the establishment of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Women and girls and called for the creation of a public inquiry into the crisis. Call to Action #41 addressed the issue of disproportionate violence towards Indigenous The 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action report identified 94 steps to address the legacy of residential schools in Canada. See also Indigenous Women Activists in Canada.) The term has since expanded to MMIWG2S to include Indigenous girls and two-spirit people, members of the Indigenous LGBTQ+ community. Sheila North Wilson coined the hashtag #MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) to bring attention to the issue. It first received significant internationalĪttention in 2004, when Amnesty International released a report detailing the violence against Indigenous women and calling for action on the issue. Indigenous communities, women’s associations and human rights groups had long called for an independent federal inquiry into the crisis.

While Indigenous women account for less than 5 per cent of theĬanadian population, they make up 24 per cent of female homicide victims. Trans, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual) community in Canada face disproportionate amounts of violence. In Canada, Indigenous women, girls and members of the 2SLGBTQQIA ( two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, ( See also Indigenous Women’s Issues in Canada.) Groups place this number at more than 4,000, citing underreporting and ineffective data keeping as reasons for the discrepancy. ( See also Highway of Tears.) However, Indigenous A 2014 Royal Canadian Mounted Police report identified 1,181 Indigenous women and girls who went missing or were murdered in Canada between 19.

The number of victims of the ongoing tragedy is contested. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S) is a human rights crisis of gender-based and racialized violence in Canada. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People