October 4th is a day to remember and honour and to take a stand against the ongoing genocide of Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people (MMIWG2S+).

There will be Sisters in Spirit Vigil and events in Saskatchewan and across Canada.

In Regina:

In Saskatoon:

Indigenous women and girls in Canada—both on reserve or in urban areas, regardless of age or socio-economic status—are at least three times more likely to experience violence and at least six times more likely to be murdered than non-Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Statistics on the rates of violence against two-spirit people are not available, but LGBTQ2S people in Canada are more likely to experience violence than heterosexual, cisgender people. This violence is a human rights crisis, and it must stop.

For over three decades, grassroots Indigenous women activists have marched in the streets, walked across Canada, held vigils, and taken other actions to draw attention to the scope and scale of the violence and call on governments to take action.