"Red Dresses Draw Attention To Canada's Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women"

"Jaime Black, a Metis artist from Winnipeg, created The REDress Project five years ago. It collects red dresses from the community and hangs them in public spaces as a visual reminder of the women who are no longer present...

Nearly 1,200 aboriginal women in Canada have been murdered or gone missing in the last 30 years — 225 in 2014 alone, according to the RCMP."

http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/8216104?ir=Canada+Alberta&ncid=tweetlnkcahpmg00000002

This feels so chillingly symbolic of a larger erasure.