Hundreds rally in Kelowna for missing, murdered Indigenous women and girls – Okanagan [Video]

Beating drums and raised voices echoed through downtown Kelowna for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on Monday.

Hundreds of people dressed in red marched from the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society on Leon Avenue to the Kelowna Law Courts, a display that doubles as a call to action to bring the missing back home.

“All levels of government have not done enough to address this. There is still a widespread belief that these are one-off incidents, that they are localized, but the problem is really systemic,” said Aaron St.Pierre,  Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society executive director.

Indigenous women and girls are six times more likely to be murdered than other groups of people in Canada, according to Statistics Canada. It’s a statistic that the people taking part in the march on Monday hope to see change.

Stephanie Anaka, the founder of the Positive Pathways for 60s Scoop Foundation, and her board member, …