Walking through those doors and being embraced by over a thousand pairs of unfinished moccasins, with each pair representing murdered or missing indigenous women is humbling at best. While the residential school closed in 1970, the students who once went there can still feel the impact it has had on the community. A special call for child size vamps (beaded fabric that covers the instep) was made for this exhibit, to represent the children that never left. The opening of the exhibit in Sault Ste. Marie is uniquely positioned after the RCMP have confirmed reports of 1,186 missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada. The reports confirmed by the RCMP say that there are 1017 murdered indigenous women between the years of 1980 and 2012. #KnowtheTruth
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 12:07:48 +0000