Walking With Our Sisters

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Walking With Our Sisters Flin Flon Community Testimony - Amy Jackson (Youth Leader for WWOS).

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Walking With Our Sisters Song by Ann Ross and Doug McGregor. Flin Flon

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Walking With Our Sisters: Edmonton launch of tour opened October 2, 2013.

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Walking With Our Sisters: Parry Sound, January 2014.

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Walking With Our Sisters: Regina, November 2013.

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Walking With Our Sisters: Winnipeg, March 2014

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Walking With Our Sisters: Sault Ste. Marie, spring 2014.

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Installation - Flin Flon June 20, 2014

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Sitting Bull College (Standing Rock Nation)- young woman is demonstrating the task of scraping flesh from a buffalo hide; she is tanning this hide while taking Lakota language classes with other youth from the Rez.

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Flin Flon welcomes the Walking With Our Sisters bundle from Sault Ste. Marie (June 1, 2014)

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The reality is that Indigenous women in this country make up only 4% of the population of women, yet comprise 23% of all cases of murdered and missing women. What accounts for this disparity? And why is the blame, as it often is, placed upon the shoulders of the families or the women themselves and not that of the societal views that regard Indigenous Peoples and our issues with so much contempt? Why does there appear to be such a reluctance by this government to actually do anything about this? These are the questions that must be asked and answered by all Canadians, who must find the strength to acknowledge and reverse the insidious bigotry and apathy towards Indigenous Peoples that has lodged itself into the fabric of too many Canadian mindsets and institutions.

Excerpt from speech given June 2, 2014 in Sudbury by Christi Belcourt who attended the Influential Women of Northern Ontario awards ceremony to accept the award for "Aboriginal Leadership". She chose to use this forum as an opportunity to speak about #MMIW and their families.

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Yesterday during the ride into Flin Flon, I told my wife Lisa Corbiere about dreams that I used to have. In these dreams, I would be walking women home. When I returned to where I came from, someone would ask me "so did you make it?" And I would respond "Yes. I walked her home." I assumed that it was part of my job as a police officer, but the dreams continued after that job ended, and I never put any thought into what those dreams were about. Until now. Being in this place, this van full of vamps, I felt a powerful yet gentle presence. I have walked those ladies home.

Darin Corbiere, Firekeeper & Protector of the WWOS bundle, en route from Sault Ste. Marie to Flin Flon (May 31, 2014).

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Vamps by Anne Anderson

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Vamps by Denise Aquash

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Vamps by Kayeri Akweks

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Vamps by Mary Aiabens

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Vamps by Joyce Aiabens