Drag the Red
Drag the Red is a community volunteer organization in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Founded in 2014 by a group of co-founders that included
missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls by searching in and around the Red River of the North for bodies or evidence of missing persons.[2]
The group was founded in response to the discovery of the body of
Tina Fontaine, an Indigenous teenager, in the Red River.[3] At that time Drag the Red comprised 25 volunteers; in 2019 it was reported that the group had "hundreds".[4] In 2021 the group received a donation of a custom boat commissioned by Unifor.[3]
Drag the Red is the subject of This River, a 2016 short documentary.[5]
References
- ^ Danton Unger (3 September 2021). "'We lost a huge champion': Community mourns death of MMIWG2S advocate, co-founder of Drag the Red". iHeartRadio. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Austin Grabish (17 June 2017). "Drag the Red searchers get grim lesson on finding, identifying bones". CBC News. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ a b "New 'one of a kind' boat will help Drag the Red continue search for missing in Winnipeg rivers". CBC News. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Leyland Cecco (9 June 2019). "Canadian volunteers scour river for missing Indigenous women". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Akeesha Footman (4 August 2016). "This River documentary searches for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls". Muskrat Magazine. Retrieved 30 September 2021.