👉🏽 No more stolen sisters, daughters, mothers, friends

As of 2016, the National Crime Information Center has reported 5,712 cases of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls. Strikingly, the U.S Department of Justice missing persons database has only reported 116 cases.

The majority of these murders are committed by non-Native people on Native-owned land. #MMIW #MMIWG #MMIWawareness #NoMoreStolenSisters

- Steph Littlebird

"Honor the dead, fight for the living!"
#MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) sticker seen in Portland, Oregon.

#NoMoreStolenSisters #MMIWG2S #MMIWawareness

The #Manitoba #Government refuses to search the #landfill that contains the remains of two #Indigenous #women who were left there by a serial killer, citing safety concerns. But in #Canada we have successfully searched landfills for human remains in the recent past. These are just a few of those stories:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2CGHHhS/

The #Conservative government has a duty to search, but they're too #racist and #bigoted to begin it.

#mmiw #mmiwg2s #mmiwawareness

Boosting this event by UO Native Studies:

📣SAVE THE DATE: 3rd Annual Poetry in the Park in Honor of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womens’ Day | Wednesday, May 3 5:00PM | 📍Heron Park (Aspen and D St.) | Springfield, Oregon

✨illioo Native Theater and the UO Native American and Indigenous Studies Academic Residential Community are pleased to present the 3rd Annual Poetry in the Park Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womens’ Day.
 
✨We are looking for those that might want to volunteer to assist with the event or also serve as poetry reader. If you would like to volunteer or be involved, please contact Marta Clifford ([email protected]) or Kenlei Cowell ([email protected]). 

✨This year we want to spread awareness by featuring community stories. We are hoping to display messages and art from the community for people to view before and after the reading. We also want to offer a prayer and read the names of community members who have been impacted by MMIW. 
 
We invite submissions of art, poetry, and comments for display and names you would like to be read during a prayer. We will accept names and art and comments from all across Turtle Island, so please feel free to share widely. To do so, please visit the submission form here or my following the QR code above.

Additional event details will be shared closer to the event date via social media.

#mmiw #mmiwawareness #mmiwgt2s #uonaisarc #illioonativetheater #uonativestudies

On the morning of May 5th, the A.D White and Ezra Cornell statues in Cornell University had banners and red handprints in recognition of the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Cornell staff soon had them taken down.

Cornell Uni is the largest recipient of appropriated Indigenous land from the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 and the institution that accrued the greatest financial benefit from that land.

#MMIW #NoMoreStolenSisters #MMIWG2S #MMIWawareness