How the REDress Project honours missing, murdered Indigenous women – PembinaValleyOnline
May 02 2025
“We are Manitobans and in Manitoba, we are the province with the highest Indigenous population [proportionally], so I feel that that kind of brings some responsibility to those of us that live in Manitoba to be aware of how this is affecting our neighbours.”
This is what Courtney Yeo-Thiessen, one of the organizers of the REDress Project in the Pembina Valley, has to say about why the community should be invested in the high rate of missing and murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) in the province and the country.
“Missing and murdered Indigenous women are very overrepresented in our system, and we need to do a better job of making sure that this doesn’t happen moving forward,” she says.
