At Kelowna Secondary School Thursday, some students were eating nothing. Others were saying nothing. It's part of an effort by the school's Aboriginal Leadership and Indigenous Academy to draw attention to an issue that continues to haunt first nations people, especially women.  

In a tweet sent out by the school district, KSS student Sophia Dargatz described the purpose of the event. "To educate our students and spread awareness about everything going on with the Highway of Tears and all of our stolen sisters," she said. "So we're fasting today and we also have a couple of students who have decided to go silent for the entire day, just to recognize our stolen sisters who have had their voice taken away."

The event has been titled the Moosehead Campaign. People were urged to wear red, a moosehide pin or a red dress pin to stand with the indigenous leaders at the school. 

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After a day of in-school events related to the campaign, the day was capped off with a Feast and activities on the campus into the early evening. 

Indigenous women make up just four percent of the female population in Canada, but 16 percent of the female homicides in the country involve indigenous victims. A 2014 report by the RCMP found that over 1,000 indigenous women were murdered in Canada over a 30-year span.