Walking With Our Sisters

Walking With Our Sisters is a commemorative art installation of over 1,763 moccasin vamps that was created to remember and honor missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

[1] This project began in June 2012 with lead organizer Belcourt using social media to invite people to create moccasin tops in memory of Missing and Murdered Women.

[5] This addition to the project occurred when the Walking With Our Sisters was at Algoma University, which is located on the site of the former Shingwauk Indian Residential School.

Other core collective members include: Christi Belcourt, Tanya Kappo (Communications), and Erin Konsmo (Two-Spirit/Communications/Youth Programming).

[9] Publication volunteers include: Kim Anderson, Kara Louttit, Doreen Roman, Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing, and the Gabriel Dumont Institute who is a book partner for publishing.

Each visitor is offered a tobacco tie to hold in the left hand, which is closest to the heart, before entering the exhibit area, which is covered in red cloth.