Niagara College’s Indigenous Education department is inviting employees, students, alumni and community members to show their support for ending gender-based violence by participating in NC’s Moose Hide Campaign event on May 16.
Taking place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at NC’s Welland Campus in room S272, this event is designed to demonstrate the College’s commitment to ending gender-based violence and violence towards children while continuing to advance our work towards Reconciliation.
The Moose Hide Campaign is an Indigenous-led grassroots movement to engage men and boys in ending violence towards women and children. It began in British Columbia over 10 years ago along the Highway of Tears and has since become a nationwide movement supported by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.
The event will start with a short presentation explaining the importance of the Moose Hide Campaign and will be followed by the pinning ceremony – a pledge taken to highlight the responsibility and commitment to respecting and protecting Indigenous women and children and standing up against the violence and harm that they face.
Those who take the pledge will receive a symbolic moose hide pin to proudly display.
All are invited to participate in the event and the important conversation around gender-based violence.
Light refreshments will be available.
Related initiatives
The Moose Hide Campaign event follows the College’s observance of Red Dress Day on May 5, when flags were lowered and red dresses were hung at both campuses to honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S).
