February 20 2017 - by Stephanie vanKampen / CBC News Three generations of women who live on #NovaScotia's #IndianBrookFirstNation used the community's annual #snowsculpting contest to start a discussion around #missingandmurderedIndigenouswomen from across #Canada. While some other #sculptures carved out icy cupcakes or cartoon characters, Mirya Obomsawin and her mother spent some nine hours this weekend carefully shaping mounds of snow into three women, seated on the ground and facing each other with crossed legs and open palms. Obomsawin's grandmother, whose own sister was murdered more than 40 years ago, came up with the idea to use the sculpture as a #memorial. Facing each other, the #snowwomen have no discernible features — details that Obomsawin said were left out of the final product on purpose. 'It could be anybody' "The white and faceless heads was to basically represent that it could be anybody — any one of us — that could go missing one day and never be found," Obomsawin said Monday, which was #MikmaqHeritageDay in Nova Scotia. "And that's the sad part of it, is that there's barely any inquiry made into women that have gone missing that are #Aboriginal." The sculptures, each about a metre high, are dyed red in homage to the #REDressProject, a national art project dedicated to missing and murdered Indigenous women. This art piece is more than a discussion piece for the family, it's a memorial. Sister murdered #AnnaMaePictouAquash was a sister of Obomsawin's grandmother, Becky Julian. Pictou Aquash went missing after travelling to the United States to take part in the #AmericanIndianMovement, a civil rights advocacy group. The Indian Brook woman's body was found in South Dakota in 1975. It was determined she had been killed by a gunshot to the head. Julian said she got the idea for the snow sculpture from a ceramic candle holder she's had for years that serves as a reminder of her and her two sisters. She said it's important not to forget. "A lot of times ... seems to me when the funerals are over, that's it," she said. #violenceagainstwomen