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10th Annual Strawberry Ceremony for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

February 14, 2015

Strawberry Ceremony with Elder Wanda Whitebird begins at 12:30 at Police Headquarters, 40 College Street at Bay, Toronto

Community Feast at the central YMCA on Grosvenor Street - following the ceremony. Food provided by Na Me Res Native Men's Residence.

Please leave your agency and organization banners at home and instead make signs in honour of women, girls, Trans and Two Spirit people who have died violent and premature deaths.

Singers, song keepers and drummers please bring your drums for the ceremony. Drummers from the organizing committee, with the direction of Wanda will be leading songs.

We recognize that February is out of season for a ceremony involving strawberries, but the violence we are experiencing is also a disruption in our traditional ways of life.

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Accessibility info:
It will be COLD! Please dress for the weather and we will endeavour to keep ceremony to 1 hour.
Some tokens will be available
There will be a sound system

Time: 12:30 pm
Venue: Toronto Police Headquarters
Location: 40 College Street Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/703866506400035/
Categories: Native Peoples

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