May 5~ Red Dress Day
Red Dress Day began in 2010 when artist Jaime Black (of mixed Anishinaabe and Finnish decent) responded to the disproportionate rates of violence against Indigenous women, more than a thousand missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada, by creating an art installation of red dresses.
Since then, May 5 has been established as the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) in Canada, also called Red Dress Day.