MMIW Resource Guide: Reports, Hotlines, Toolkits, and Information about MMIW

From the website: "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) is a recent movement to bring recognition to the disappearance and murders of Native women and girls; many in the movement also include two spirit and trans persons under the term. While the movement is new, the issue of MMIW is not. Throughout Canada and the United States, a disproportionate number of Native women go missing and/or are murdered. The exact number of missing and murdered Native people is challenging to pinpoint, as many go unreported and the media fails to give the issue the attention it deserves.

According to reports in 2018, about 84.3 percent of Native women experience violence and 56 percent experience sexual violence. This violence is primarily committed by non-Native men, a crisis perpetuated by a multitude of factors, as discussed in the resources below. This guide offers reports, articles, websites, documentaries, news stories, toolkits, recordings of legal proceedings, and scholarly journals to help guide education around the topic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, children, and relatives.

We hope this compilation of resources can be a starting point to understand the crisis of MMIW fully, provide families healing, and help others implement justice and take action so that there will be no more stolen sisters."

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MMIW Resource Guide: Reports, Hotlines, Toolkits, and Information about MMIW

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2022-10-11

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2020-02-05

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North America [n]
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Canada [n-cn]

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From the website: "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) is a recent movement to bring recognition to the disappearance and murders of Native women and girls; many in the movement also include two spirit and trans persons under the term. While the movement is new, the issue of MMIW is not. Throughout Canada and the United States, a disproportionate number of Native women go missing and/or are murdered. The exact number of missing and murdered Native people is challenging to pinpoint, as many go unreported and the media fails to give the issue the attention it deserves.

According to reports in 2018, about 84.3 percent of Native women experience violence and 56 percent experience sexual violence. This violence is primarily committed by non-Native men, a crisis perpetuated by a multitude of factors, as discussed in the resources below. This guide offers reports, articles, websites, documentaries, news stories, toolkits, recordings of legal proceedings, and scholarly journals to help guide education around the topic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, children, and relatives.

We hope this compilation of resources can be a starting point to understand the crisis of MMIW fully, provide families healing, and help others implement justice and take action so that there will be no more stolen sisters."

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