Nearly one hundred people walked through downtown Winnipeg on Mother's Day for the seventh annual Walk for Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women.

Many of the participants have lost their daughters, sisters, cousins or friends to violence against woman. Some held banners and other wore butterflies with a picture of their loved one on it.

Family and friends of victims like Hillary Angel Wilson, Claudette Osborne, and Cherisse Houle walked with the crowd.

The event was organized by Sisters in Spirit, an organization that creates awareness about the more than 500 missing and murdered aboriginal woman in girls in Canada.

"There doesn't seem to be any attention paid in this country that is supposed to be so great," says Barbara Shoomski, who is with Sisters in Spirit. "We always care about someone else from a different country. We can't focus on this issue in our own country."

Organizers say more attention has to be paid to protecting all women.