Remembering MMIWG2S

PRINCE GEORGE BC- Red Dress Day, May 5 of every year is to remember the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2-spirit people within the nation. The violence against Indigenous people is heightened within our communities all across the nation.

Organizers say the Red Dress Movement is highly important as it calls on how there are so many missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2-spirit people and how very little is done to help the victims, their families and all impacted by the evils of society and the injustice served to these innocent people.

Organizers argue the communities affected by these crimes grow with every waking day, with a new case being uncovered and no questions being answered. Within Prince George’s limits, there is an infamous highway dubbed the Highway of Tears. The Highway of Tears has held 18 victims in its grasp with The Canadian Encyclopedia stating “This led to the RCMP to double the number of Highway of Tears victims from nine to 18, all of whom were murdered or disappeared over a 37-year period (1969 to 2006).”

Eighteen women, some being children as young as 12 years old who were murdered or continue to be missing along a certain patch of highway, only in Northern British Columbia. EIghteen families forever damaged by the loss of their loved one, some families paired with the heartache of not knowing if a pillar in their family is dead or alive. 18 communities tainted by crime done onto completely innocent people.