# @statenews on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C4dwekVPM6u
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27942099-statenews-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/edc0534363.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-03-13T18:45:13.000+00:00

## Caption

In the Beal Botanical Garden, along West Circle Drive and surrounding Beaumont Tower, approximately 60 red dresses without owners hang suspended in the air, each of them representing countless missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Created in 2009, the project is meant to draw attention to the ongoing crisis of violence against Indigenous women and girls across the United States and Canada. 

"Someone used to wear that (dress) and so that spirit and that energy of that person still lives in that fabric," Red River Métis artist Black-Morsette said. "At the same time that it’s an absence — and it speaks to something violent — there’s also a presence. And I think there’s a real strength in that presence."

Read the full story at the link in our bio.

✍️: Emilio Perez Ibarguen
📸:: Maya Kolton

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| statenews | @statenews | https://gondola.cc/statenews | Publisher |
| Jaden Hawkins | @jadenmhawkins | https://gondola.cc/jadenmhawkins | Digital Creator |

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