Sisters in Spirit walk in Hamilton honours missing and murdered Indigenous Peoples

The Sisters in Spirit held a rally in Hamilton Wednesday for the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Persons.

Community members echoed calls from relatives of two missing women to search for the their loved ones in Manitoba.

The community gathered and walked together from City Hall to Gore Park, carrying small red dress cutouts to represent the victims of violence.

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The Sisters in Spirit called for the government of Canada and Manitoba to search a landfill where investigators believe the remains of two Indigenous women may be located.

After the walk, community members stuck the red dresses on the statue of Queen Victoria.

The search is estimated to cost about $184 million, the Federal Crown Indigenous relations minister didn’t commit to put up that cost but the federal government is putting $740,000 toward further assessing the feasibility of searching the Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of those two First Nations women.

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