Red Dress Day is a day of honour, remembrance and national awareness for the thousands of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people
(MMIWG2S+). Stark images of red dresses hanging from trees or structures were used by Métis artist Jaime Black of the ReDress Project to symbolize the absence of those whose lives will not be forgotten. Red Dress Day is also a time to commemorate the collective and ongoing efforts by Indigenous individuals, families, communities, grassroots activists and organizations to raise awareness and demand accountability from the federal, provincial and territorial governments in addressing this genocide.
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