Iqaluit march for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls pays homage to Nunavut victims - The Turtle Island News
By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News Angel Ootova was just 9-years-old when her mom died in a domestic violence incident in Iqaluit, while Angel and her brother were in Pond Inlet. On May 5, Angel and 47 people marched from Iqaluit’s Four Corners intersection to Iqaluit Square in honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, known as Red Dress Day. “I’m here today in honour of my mom, who was murdered June 7, 2008 — 18 years ago — and I’m walking for my childhood best friend, Savanna Pikuyak and for Sula Enuaraq and her two beautiful kids, Alex and Aliyah, who were also murdered,” Angel said. Initially, Angel was told that her mom, 46-year-old Della Ootova, died from alcohol poisoning. That later turned