Hundreds gather in Vancouver to remember lost loved ones, call for action
For more than three decades, Valentine’s Day in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has been marked with the commemoration of Indigenous women and girls who are missing and murdered.
“If you rewind it 20 years ago, Cindy was the one that brought us here,” said Sheridan of the DTES Memorial March, adding that Cindy was involved in advocating for missing and murdered women and girls. According to Statistics Canada, 490 Indigenous women and girls were murdered between 2009 and 2021, translating to a rate that is six times higher than non-Indigenous women.
Karen Williams of Gitxsan was at the march in memory of her sister, Alberta Williams, who went missing in 1989. Carol Martin has worked in the DTES women’s centre and been involved in the Memorial March since it began.“This whole platform is to bring awareness that things haven’t changed for us Indigenous women, our sacred givers of life. They’re to be honored, they’re to be respected.”“When the media starts talking about these things, the first thing they say is she was a working girl, or she lived a high-risk lifestyle,” said Martin.
“How do we start peeling those layers back and really taking a look at how humanity has treated our Indigenous women and girls,” said Sheridan.
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