100 red ribbon skirts are how Jamie Smallboy and volunteers give back to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Jamie Smallboy says hearing the sound of the drums at a Women’s Memorial March in Vancouver several years ago marked a turning point in her life.
Smallboy, who was homeless at the time, says she thought she was hallucinating when she turned the corner onto East Hastings Street to see thousands of Indigenous people and allies marching. When she asked a bystander what they were marching for, she was told it was to honour and remember missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).
