This day honours the women, girls, two-spirit, transgender, and gender-diverse people who identify as Indigenous and who have been subject to gender-based and racialized violence and whose lives have been lost.
The red dress, which began as the REDress Project, an art installation by Métis artist Jaime Black in 2010, is a visual reminder of those lives lost.
In just one example, students in DSB1 used photography and art to highlight their learning of the impacts of colonization and the impact and loss of murdered and missing women, girls, two-spirit, transgender, and gender-diverse people who identify as Indigenous.