On the weekend of Red Dress Day, May 5, a Cree-Métis woman is holding a two-day Indigenous fashion festival in Kamloops, B.C., with designers each creating a red dress to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit-plus people.
She’s a 44-year-old mother of six children, and a grandmother to two more. Now, Racheal Marie Billy, a member of the Cook's Ferry Indian Band, can also call herself an international fashion model.