Love Starts With Us families create quilt in memory of those lost
May 12, 2021
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By Victoria Gray Writer Crafting together brings healing to those who have lost a family member to violence. May 5 was the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. To commemorate the day, and the Six Nations members who have been lost to violence Ganohkwasra Family Assault Support Services’ Embrace Them With Love team hosted a Zoom call to unveil a quilt made by Love Starts With Us. Embrace Them With Love Coordinator and counsellor Amber Silversmith said a group of families who have lost loved ones, named Love Starts With Us, have worked on the quilt for more than a year. “They have been working very hard on a project of their own as this COVID-19 time came and they are very proud of…
May 11, 2021
MARQUETTE Two Northern Michigan University entities are holding a virtual Walk for Justice throughout the month of May to raise awareness of what has been called “the silent epidemic” of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
The NMU Social Work Department’s Walking the Path Together program, along with the Center for Native American Studies, invites participants to log and share their miles on Facebook to be eligible to win prizes. Other activities include an art competition and T-shirt sales to support a local chapter of MMIW.
The month-long event included the May 5 National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which was designated through a congressional resolution.
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Taytum Robinson is one of the people working to shed light on the MMIWG2S movement. She uses her creative work as an artist to help advocate for those who have been murdered or gone missing. She said she believes that MMIWG2S is a transnational crisis. I wouldn t describe it as a pandemic or epidemic because, in my opinion, it s a crisis that is directly linked to genocide, Robinson said. It s a very serious topic. And unfortunately, Indigenous peoples don t have the support from law enforcement that I feel they really deserve.
According to Robinson, missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people fall under the radar far too often.
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The blankets represent the land inhabited by Indigenous people that eventually became Canada. (Kirk Pennell/CBC)
A group of students at Summerside Intermediate brought Canada s Indigenous history to life recently by participating in a symbolic blanket exercise, with help from P.E.I. s first Mi kmaw poet laureate.
Throughout the one-hour program, the students stood on blankets that represent the land inhabited by Indigenous people that eventually became modern-day Canada.
As the European settlers arrived during the exercise, the blankets got smaller, and some were removed entirely while student narrators took participants through a historical timeline.