Indigenous dancer makes online pleas to help find her stolen regalia

A section Indigenous pistillate and her household are making pleas online aft a conveyance interruption successful downtown past night.

Her accepted Indigenous regalia was stolen and she is doing thing she tin to get it back.

“It’s a portion of who I am. It’s portion of my culture,” said Graycen Thomas.

She is hopeless to find the suitcase.

Thomas and her parent are adjacent offering a $200 reward to whomever tin instrumentality the suitcase — nary questions asked.

“It conscionable breaks my bosom to deliberation that idiosyncratic would bargain those things, not knowing however important they were to me,” said Thomas.

Thomas said she went to a movie astir 9 p.m. and locked her doors 5 times earlier heading to the theatre. When she got back, she recovered her conveyance is disarray and instantly began looking for her regalia.

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“I was inactive going done a lot. My emotions were each implicit the place. I didn’t cognize however to feel. I didn’t cognize what to think. I didn’t cognize wherever my regalia was. And, you know, I was truly overwhelmed, and I was conscionable I didn’t cognize what to think,” said Thomas.

The suitcase contained 5 dresses of accepted regalia but that was not the lone happening stolen. Her wallet and the archetypal beadwork her ma ever made her was stolen arsenic well.

“That was the archetypal happening that she made maine for my regalia. So, it holds a batch of sentimental worth because, you know, my ma made that for me. And, you know, that’s not replaceable,” said Thomas.

Thomas and her parent went astir Saskatoon for hours Wednesday hoping idiosyncratic had near it successful a dumpster oregon an alley, not realizing however overmuch the regalia was worth.

“They were astir apt looking for thing to merchantability oregon thing to deterioration and they realized that they couldn’t. Or they didn’t cognize however overmuch they were worth. And so, they conscionable benignant of dumped it retired due to the fact that it wasn’t worthy thing to them if they didn’t person immoderate usage for it,” said Thomas.

Thomas filed a study with Saskatoon constabulary and hopes that her regalia tin beryllium returned arsenic soon arsenic possible.