Round dance at Portage and Main marks International Women’s Day, call for landfill search
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is hosting a round dance at Winnipeg’s iconic Portage Avenue and Main Street intersection on Friday for International Women’s Day.
The 10 a.m. event is also a call for the provincial and federal governments “to end delays and take immediate action” to search the Prairie Green landfill for the remains of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, says a notice from the AMC about the event.
Following the dance, around 10:20 a.m., people will march to the Manitoba Legislative Building, where speeches will be given on front steps.
“We need to be heard, and so we continuously, continuously have to push that agenda, that narrative, that we be heard as a First Nation people,” AMC Grand Chief Cathy Merrick told CBC Information Radio host Marcy Markusa on Friday.
Police believe that Harris and Myran, both from Long Plain First Nation, were killed and that their remains ended up in the privately owned Prairie Green landfill, north of Winnipeg.
They are two of four women police allege Jeremy Skibicki killed.
He is also charged with killing Rebecca Contois, whose partial remains were found in North Kildonan and, weeks later, at the city-owned Brady Road landfill in June 2022.
The fourth woman Skibicki is accused of killing has not been identified, but First Nations community members have named her Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman.
Merrick and the AMC — working with input from technical experts, the families of Harris and Myran and others — shared a new landfill search feasibility report with all levels of government in January.
“We’ve done our work. From then on we requested for a meeting and to be in the same room with the federal and the provincial government, and there has been no response to that effect,” Merrick said.
“So we need to remind the government that it’s not going away and this is something that’s very close to the hearts of our our people. We need the government to ensure that they come and they tell us that the funding is going to be in place so that we do that search … for our loved ones that are there.”
Information Radio on Wednesday was dedicated to celebrating women, with a full slate of female guests.
Merrick, who was elected in October 2022 as the first woman to lead the AMC, was asked what kind of advice she would give to her younger self.
“You be strong. You be proud of who you are. You continue to learn about your language, to learn about your culture, to learn about who you are. And to be a proud person to be able to walk on your journey,” she said.
On the advice she would give a young Indigenous woman, Merrick said “continue to be who you are, be resilient and be — ensure that you stand up for your rights as a woman.”
She was also asked about her vision for the future.
“We need to ensure that we pave that road for our younger people and that they don’t find it as hard to be able to walk,” she said.
“We are First Nation people. We are the first people of this country and we need to ensure that we always remember our treaties and we always remember who we are and where we come from.”
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