Red Dress Day 2022 commemorating murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in B.C. in pictures

People across B.C. marched and called for more action on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on Thursday, the national day of awareness, also known as Red Dress Day.

Red Dress Day started on May 5,2010, as an offshoot of a project by Mtis artist Jaime Black, with the red dresses meant to draw attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada and United States.

TheNational Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls hasbeen marked with marches and processions every year, with communities throughout Canada asking governments and authorities to take more action especially after a 2019 inquirycalled for sweeping changes at all levels of society to address the endemic violence threatening them.

Here arehow communities across B.C. marked the occasion in 2022: