Red Dress Day

Commemorative event

Red Dress Day, or Red Dress Campaign, is an annual event held by the REDress Project in memory of the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls across Canada. The event is held annually on May 5th to honor Hanna Harris who was murdered in Montana in 2013. May 5th would've been Hanna's birthday and was chosen to honor her and all Missing and Murdered Native American Women back in 2017. The first National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Women and Girls happened in the United States of America on May 5th, 2017. Canada followed suit in 2019 and established their own National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and was nicknamed Red Dress Day. Red Dress Day calls attention to the disproportionate rates of violence against Indigenous women and Girls who go missing at six times the rate of non-Indigenous women and girls.

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