It was a bittersweet moment during the Kelowna香蕉视频直播檚 seventh annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Girls and Two-Spirit Memorial Vigil.

Westbank First Nation chief Roxanne Lindley addressed a crowd of approximately 100 people, who gathered outside of the courthouse Wednesday night.

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Tina Miller has been organizing the vigil for the past four years, and said the situation hasn香蕉视频直播檛 improved for women.

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Bringing awareness to the issue is a step forward, but you have to do that by looking back, she said.

But the event isn香蕉视频直播檛 something Miller wants to pass on to her children.

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Students from Mt. Boucherie Secondary and the Westbank First Nation beat drums to honour the missing women, singing the Okanagan Song.

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A collective formed to organize the event, which is new this year, she said.

Pauline Terbasket, executive director of the Okanagan Nation Alliance, has attended the vigils in Kelowna since the beginning.

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Shelly Nguy doesn香蕉视频直播檛 have an Indigenous background, but said she wanted to attend the event to show her support. Ashlee Tom stood with her, holding a poster with faces of missing women on the Highway of Tears in northern B.C.

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