I'm sorry, but I really don't care about some mid-morning television host's mother gone missing when so many Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirits are murdered and missing EVERY DAY!

#MMIW #MMIWG #MMIWGT2S #MMIC

A #NativeAmerican girl was found dead and dismembered by an Arizona highway. Will her killer ever be found?

“Criminals and bad actors believe that they can get away with (crimes) on the Indian reservations.”
—attorney and activist Margo Hill-Ferguson

By Rob Picheta
Feb 13, 2026

"Carolyn Bender remembers her niece’s smile: broad and vibrant and heartbreakingly innocent, as though the whole world was in on her joke.
She remembers Emily drawing in the back seat of the car, and teasing her younger brother, and the sound of her soft-spoken voice. She recalls with a smile her love of being active in the outdoors: Emily was 'always on a swing, always in a pool.'

"That’s how #EmilyPike’s family remembers her. But for many in her tribe and across Arizona, she is known for something else: Being the victim of a savage crime.

"Last year Emily – a 14-year-old member of the #SanCarlosApache tribe – went missing from her group home in #MesaAZ, an eastern suburb of #PhoenixAZ. Her dismembered body was discovered by hikers nearly three weeks later and around 70 miles away, stuffed into trash bags left by the side of a rural highway.

"A multi-pronged investigation by federal and tribal authorities, with the support of the #FBI, has seemingly stalled. And a year later Emily’s family is still left waiting, desperately, for justice.
But her grisly killing underscores a broader problem: an epidemic of violence against #NativeAmericanWomen and girls who go missing or are killed at a staggeringly high rate.

"Native people were reported missing more than 10,200 times in 2024, according to the latest available FBI data: a rate of 28 missing person cases a day, or more than one an hour. Over 7,000 of those cases involved children, and more than 4,000 involved girls.

"This is a crisis hidden in plain sight, campaigners and tribal leaders say. In 2023, homicide was the fourth-leading cause of death for Native American men under the age of 45, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the sixth-leading cause for women of the same age. And in a landmark study conducted a decade ago, more than four in five Native American women said they had experienced violence in their lifetime. "

Read more [paywall?]:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/us/emily-pike-killing-arizona

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/XhhqA

#MMIW #MMIWG #StolenSisters #MurderedSisters #MMIWGT2S #MMIWG2S #NoMoreStolenSisters #InidgenousRights #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #WhoKeepsUsSafe #MurderedAndMissingIndigenosuWomen

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

TIOHTIÀ:KE
FEB 14
VIGIL FOR MMIWGT2S
6pm
Cabot Square

#tiohtiake #mtl #montreal #mmiwgt2s

2022 highlights:

- #MMIWG poem "Reservation Fairy Tales 101 - Final Exam" won a Rhysling Award

- first Marvel book, "Sisters of Sorcery" published & well received

- contracted to write first book in new horror line for Marvel, "Marvel Zombies: The Hunger"

- new 🐶

- daughter graduated (her accomplishment, not mine, but still an important highlight of the year)

- survived

Hope you have a fabulous #2023!

#author #books #comics #marvel #poetry #rescuedogs #MMIWGT2S #MMIW #Indigenous

Boozhoo! Tansi! An intro for folx who have never followed me before on other SM (#NativeTwitter):

👋🏼New Followers!

I am Chippewa/RR Métis. I write dark & twisty SFFH fiction/poetry. In addition to my original work, I've written award-nominated books set in the Marvel, D&D, BtVS & X-files universes, among others. I also won a Rhysling Award for my poem about #MMIWGT2S, "Reservation Fairy Tales 101 - Final Exam."

#indigenous #metis #nativetwitter #author #writing #poetry #sff #horror #comics