With K’omoks First Nations on Vancouver Island, BC recently hosting the Walking with our Sisters Memorial, many community members are still inspired.
The memorial installation commemorates the 1,181 missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada and the US by displaying 1,793+ pairs of moccasin vamps (tops) plus 108 pairs of children’s vamps handmade by various people across the country. It was a poignantly beautiful, yet somber display that moved most people to tears as they slowly walked past the mocassin tops and read the handstitched names, symbols and momentos that represented each woman and child.
