- by Abbey Blokland

A study in 2014 reported at least 1000 Indigenous women were murdered in Canada over 30 years. Communities spread awareness for the Red Dress Campaign about the missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW).

Citizens gather on October 4 to show support to families that have been affected and remember the loss of MMIW.

To show your support, businesses and families hang a lonely red dress on their storefront windows or on their doors. Hanging a red dress by itself represents one of the missing or murdered.

Other organizations like the Faceless Doll project and Walking with our Sisters help support this cause too. There are podcasts that are available to watch and stream on various networks about MMIW.

The Faceless Doll project represents MMIW. They let you create faceless dolls to symbolize the women who lost individuality in becoming victims of crime.

Walking with our Sisters began in 2012, before the Red Dress project started.
In this organization you can partake in making moccasin tops to help represent Indigenous women, so they are never forgotten. Each moccasin symbolizes one individual who has been a victim.

The Red Dress Campaign volunteers have done something similar by starting a "L'il Red Dress" Project where they make beaded red dress pins and earrings that are sold on their website. All proceeds go to installing a missing person signage on Vancouver Island.