Artists' moccasins commemorate missing or murdered Indigenous women
An art exhibit commemorating the lives of murdered or missing Indigenous women premiered in Edmonton, last week. Walking With Our Sisters consists of more than 1700 intricately decorated moccasin tops, or vamps.The unfinished shoes represent the unfinished lives of the more than 600 aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered, in Canada, in the past 20 years. Christi Belcourt, the...
An art exhibit commemorating the lives of murdered or missing Indigenous women premiered in Edmonton, last week.
Walking With Our Sisters consists of more than 1700 intricately decorated moccasin tops, or vamps.
The unfinished shoes represent the unfinished lives of the more than 600 aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered, in Canada, in the past 20 years.
Christi Belcourt, the exhibit coordinator, tells As it Happens how she came up with the idea for the project. Listen to that interview here.