#wreckconciliation

Indigenous Rising Media

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Repost from @gidimten_checkpoint

• Red Dresses.

The dresses of our sisters. 

Strewn on the ground. Easily disposed of by the Coastal Gaslink workers who have taken them down, and carelessly left them discarded on the ground. The red dresses that were being used in ceremony at the time that heavily armed officers descended upon our Wet’suwet’en womxn. •

The dresses themselves, symbolize our #StolenSisters. Our missing & murdered loved ones. Over the past year, we have placed red dresses on the territories. The wind can blow through them, and sun shine upon them... which is no longer an option for the womxn they represent. •

Say the names of: Cecelia, Delphine, Ramona, Francis, Danielle, Jessica, Mary, Cindy, Immaculate, Aielah, Alberta, Olivia, Tamara, Roxanne... and so many more. All young womxn missing or murdered from or around the #HighwayOfTears. The highway that has claimed so many of our sisters - which runs through our territories. •

Say their names. Say them out loud. The red dresses disregarded, much like majority of their cases were... and now the dresses lay witness to the violent removal of our matriarchs. •

The statistics are clear: the cases of violence against indigenous womxn are disproportionately higher than that of non-indigenous women. The punishments for perpetrators of those crimes are less severe. The rates are accelerated in areas which house mancamps & transient workers. •

The RCMP have zero qualms about disregarding violence against our womxn... and, as we have seen during January 2019 & February 2020, they even participate in the violence. •

The National Inquiry for Missing & Murdered Women & Girls deemed the epidemic a genocide. •

Tomorrow, February 14th, marks the Memorial Day for #MMIW #MMIWG… we ask that any actions that take place, hold space for remembering our lost womxn, girls, and 2 spirit loved ones. If you can, bring red dresses - to remind them of their continued acts of genocide. •