Walking With Our Sisters

 Yesterday we visited the Red Deer Museum, which is hosting the Walking With Our Sisters exhibit. It was a very sobering visit. It is a commemorative Memorial for the missing and murdered indigenous women of Canada and the United States.

   It was a powerful experience, as we entered, we were asked to remove our footwear, as a sign of respect for the dead. Then a brief sage burning ceremony was conducted and we were asked to pick up some tobacco and hold it in our hand while walking around the exhibit of the vamps (decorative uppers of moccasins), each representing a dead or missing indigenous woman.  As we walked we were also given the opportunity to pray, and at the end of the walk place our tobacco into a box as a sign of our thoughts and prayers. 

   May God move the hearts, minds and lives of people to reverse the injustices and evils that were, and continue to be committed against indigenous women.   

   Over 1,181+ native women and girls in Canada have been reported missing or have been murdered in the last 30 years. Many vanished without a trace with inadequate inquiry into their disappearance or murders paid by the media, the general public, politicians and even law enforcement. This is a travesty of justice. For more on the exhibit, go here.