More than a hundred people gathered for a vigil in Winnipeg’s North End to mourn a Sagkeeng First Nation woman whose remains were identified more than two years after she was reported missing.

Family and supporters gathered around the place where Keeper’s remains were found Saturday afternoon for songs and words in her honour. They held roses and photos of the young mother, some showing her beaming beside her two daughters, now 13 and eight.

Darren Courchene said his parents fostered Keeper — who was born in Little Grand Rapids First Nation and raised in Sagkeeng — from when she was around 18 months old until she left home.