Protesters call for action on MMIWG as police confirm body found in eastern P.E.I. is Summer Kneebone

More than 20 people rallied in Charlottetown as part of Canada-wide protests calling for action on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls Monday, the same day P.E.I. police confirmed theyfound the body of Summer Kneebone.

Protesters are calling on thegovernment to fund an immediate search of a landfill north of Winnipeg, where authorities believethe bodies of at least two murdered Indigenous womenwere dumped last year.

The rally in Charlottetowncomes days after the body of an Indigenous woman from P.E.I. was found in a remote area of Kings County. Police confirmed Monday it was27-year-oldKneebone, who had been missing since Aug. 7.

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Sarah Jackson, who works for the Native Council of P.E.I., said the P.E.I. rally was held in solidarity with the families of missing women.

"They've been thrown out like trash and we want to come together to let them know that their women aren't trash, they're important," Jackson said."They're valued and the families are valued and important, and they need to know that they're not alone."

Last week, Charlottetown police arrested and charged two P.E.I. residents in connection with Kneebone's disappearance.

Jackson said the 27-year-old could have been anyone's daughter or granddaughter, and that she has been on the minds of the protesters.

P.E.I. isn't as innocent as people would like to think it is. Sarah Jackson

"P.E.I. isn't as innocent as people would like to think it is," Jackson said.

"Now we have to promote awareness and stranger danger and, you know, where you're going to be safe. That's our reality. But it's at another level because of the fact that we'reIndigenous and we're targeted."