A stark remembrance for Canada's missing and murdered aboriginal women unfurled across the country on Sunday.
Haunting displays of red dresses marked the National Day of Remembrance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women as part of a project created by Jaime Black.
The Metis artist from Winnipeg is behind The REDress Project, which collects red dresses from the community and hangs them in public spaces as a visual reminder of the women who are no longer present.
In Winnipeg, seven dresses hung outside the memorial for 15-year-old murder victim Tina Fontaine.
Nearly 1,200 aboriginal women in Canada have been killed or have vanished in the last 30 years — 225 in 2014 alone, according to the RCMP.
“I think it should be one of the main issues within Canadian politics,” Linda Nothing, organizer of Calgary's REDress chapter told Metro News at a gatherine on Sunday. "We are the original people of this land and we are losing our women at an alarming rate."
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