The Dryden Native Friendship Centre is remembering the over 600 missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls across Canada.
Executive Director Sally Ledger says this is the one day that you stop and remember all of the women who have gone missing, and the families it affects.
Ledger says this isn’t just a one-day thing, as they bring attention to the issue year-round.
The local focus is to increasing knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal peoples and understanding the struggles they go through on a daily basis.
Ledger says they look at it from a educational perspective, a social perspective and a policing perspective.
A petition was also passed around at the vigil, calling on the Federal Government to create a National Public Inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal Women.
Holly Maggrah is the Vice President of the DNFC and also a member of the Ontario Native Women’s Association, and says there are over 10,000 signatures.
The petitions will be brought to the Federal Government on October 18th, 2013.
For more information, visit www.awotaan.org.
There is also a vigil being held this evening from 7-9pm at the Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre in Sioux Lookout.
