'We deserve justice': Red Dress Day events in downtown Winnipeg honour MMIWG2S+
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Hundreds marched from downtown Winnipeg Sunday night to mark Red Dress Day, the nationally recognized day to raise awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people.
The fourth annual MMIWG2S+ Walk for Justice started at The Forks' Oodena Circle and ended at the Manitoba Legislature. Posters of missing and murdered Indigenous people were placed around the circle and carried by members of the community during the march.
"Our people are not statistics, each and every one of those have families that are out there hurting and what better to bring them and show these families that their loved ones matter," said Krista Fox before the march. "That the monsters that took them, they were not theirs to take in the beginning, that's the bottom line."
Fox came to the march from Saskatchewan and was wearing a shirt made to honour Ashley Morin, who went missing from North Battleford on July 10, 2018. Saskatchewan RCMP said a year after her disappearance they believed she was the victim of a homicide.
"These people are taking our sisters," said Fox. "They're not yours to take."
Gayle Pruden said those who were at The Forks are all just one big community and needed to support each other and walk together as equals.
"I usually tell people, come and support these events before it hits home," said Pruden. "This needs to come to an end with all our murdered and missing women, it needs to come to a stop. And if we all help one another — we're all on Mother Earth — this shouldn't be happening."
Louise Menow, from Norway House Cree Nation, has been part of the walks all four years and honoured her childhood friend, Hillary Angel Wilson, who was 18 years old when her body was found near a highway outside Winnipeg in 2009.
Police labelled her death a homicide, but no one has been arrested.
"I grew up with Hillary, and when I heard she passed, it was devastating," Menow said.
Her death left Menow feeling scared to move to Winnipeg, and even after he's been living here for more than 10 years, she said she still feeling unsafe.
"Wherever I go, I am always going to be a target just by being an Indigenous woman," she said.
She'll also be walking for her niece Grace, who was killed by a drunk driver last year.
"She deserved justice, we deserve justice," she said.
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