05/05/2024
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May 5th is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. (images by myself taken in support of on film, dev by )
Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people experience violence, sexual assault, go missing, and are murdered at the highest rates of any ethnic group—the murder rate among Native women is ten times the national United States average.
Every woman, girl, and two-spirit person deserves to feel safe in their community. Our people deserve to have their cries for help heard. Violence against Indigenous people is a crisis that has been underfunded for decades, especially when it comes to investigative resources, gathering testimony, and building data.
We must look to the systemic causes of all forms of violence against women, girls, and two-spirit people and examine the underlying social, economic, institutional, and historical causes of this crisis. As we learn about the real issues that Native people face today, we better understand the action, and we can respond with resources. People oppressed by colonization and ongoing trauma must expand capacity, power, and authority—for we are strong and resilient and worthy of support.
Here are some organizations that you can follow in order to learn how to work beside and with us:
❤️ The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center | niwrc.org
❤️ Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives Coalition | navajommdr.org
❤️ The Urban Indian Health Institute | uihi.org
❤️ The Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women | csvanw.org
❤️ Three Sisters Collective | threesisterscollective.org
❤️ Sovereign Bodies Institute | sovereign-bodies.org