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What Is Red Dress Day?

          What Is Red Dress Day?

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May 5, 2024 Red Dress Day ~ Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.

Red Dress Day on May 5th of each year is not to be confused with National Wear Red Day.

National Wear Red Day is a day in February when many people wear red to show their support for the awareness of heart disease. In the US In the US, National Wear Red Day occurs on the first Friday in February each year.


What is Red Dress Day? How MMIWG2S+ are Honoured on May 5, 2024

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“No More Missing Sisters”

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“Red Dress Day is s an annual event held by the REDress Project in memory of the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls across Canada.”1

The President of the USA proclaims May 5, 2024, as Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2024-missing-murdered-indigenous-events-120328548.html 

 

A Resource for Kids: 

Indigenous Mental Health
A Culturally Informed Systematic Review of Mental Health Disparities Among Adult Indigenous Men and Women of the USA: 
Increasing Culturally Responsive Care and Mental Health Equity
https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/indigenous-mental-health-and-suicide

 

Seeking Serenity and Harmony is a Wife, Homemaker, Homesteader, Mom to six and grammie to 3 kids. She deals with multiple chronic invisible illnesses on a daily basis. She has a B.A. in liberal arts and minored in early children's services and psychology. She is hoping to use her experiences and education to help others. She enjoys continuing to learn. She dreams of spending time reading, photography, scrapbooking and various arts and crafts. She is always dreaming of being organized enough so that she can find that free time. She is constantly looking for ways to be more productive and save time. She is an independent Usborne Books and More consultant. Avid Essential Oil user and currently studying herbal remedies and also known as a crazy chicken lady. She is finally venturing into that dream of being a writer and putting her words out there for the world in hopes to help someone else.

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