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Walking With Our Sisters exhibit heads west

The ‘Walking With Our Sisters’ project began in 2013 and has just finished its tour in Sudbury.

Internationally known Espanola artist and First Nation advocate, Christi Belcourt, began the initiative back in 2013 and is proud to see it receive such wide attention.
She says it includes 1,810 pairs of vamps plus another 118 pairs representing children created and donated by caring individuals.

Called “vamps,” “tongues” or “uppers,” the tops of moccasins are intentionally not sewn into moccasins, and represent the unfinished lives of murdered and missing Indigenous women, as well as children who died in residential schools.

The seven-year tour continues and now heads to western Canada and then south to the United States.

It is slated to end in 2019.

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