Skate group, Miywasin honour MMIW at teepee
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Twenty-plus young skateboarders wore red and skateboarded from the Medicine Hat Cultural Centre to the Saamis Tepee on Wednesday evening to raise awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people.
May 5 marked Red Dress Day and skaters from the Medicine Hat Skateboard Association met at the Kinsmen Skatepark at 4:30 p.m. where people from the Miywasin Friendship Centre handed out red dress pins before going to the cultural centre to begin their skate.
“It was a really good turnout and I’m really happy. I think we were more than educated today and our eyes have been opened to what’s going on,” said Davie James, board member of the skateboard association. “The kids were very excited to do it and I think they’re very excited for the future to work with the Miywasin some more on community projects, and it’s just an exciting thing.”
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Red Dress Day remembers missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people
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By Herald on May 5, 2021.
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City of Lethbridge Indigenous relations co-ordinator Pamela Beebe speaks to reporters in front of city hall on Wednesday about the importance of marking Red Dress Day.
Tim Kalinowski – Lethbridge Herald
The City of Lethbridge marked Red Dress Day in memory of murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people by hanging two bright red dresses among the green leaves of a weeping willow in front of city hall on Wednesday.
“Today is an important day,” stated Mayor Chris Spearman. “It tells the families of murdered and missing women that they have not been forgotten. The red dress is symbolic of murdered and missing Indigenous women, and those families feel abandoned. Those stories have been forgotten for too long.
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