Media and Presentations from our MMIWGT2S Day of Awareness event on May 3, 2020:
If you missed our event, please watch the recording of the presentations by people doing work related to MMIWGT2S:
2020 MMIWGT2S Day of Awareness Presentations
Not Another Statistic by Santa Fe Indian School Performing Arts 2020
HOW TO BE A BETTER ALLY
- Transfer the benefits of your privilege to those who have less
- Acknowledge that the conversation is not about you
- Educate yourself on the history of Indigenous Peoples
- Seek out Indigenous created/supported resources
- Remember that Indigenous Peoples are the experts of their own realities and histories
- Learn about and acknowledge the ancestral lands you’re on (check out native-land.ca)
Local groups to know/follow/support
Tewa Women United
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women
Santa Fe Indian Center
National organizations to know/follow/support
Urban Indian Health Institute
Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies Initiative
Sovereign Bodies Institute
MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, TRANS, & TWO SPIRITS
#MMIWGT2S #MMIWG #MMIW
Cities with highest number of MMIWG cases in 2017*:
Seattle, WA (45)
Albuquerque, NM (37)
Anchorage, AK (31)
Tucson, AZ (31)
Billings, MT (29)
Gallup, NM (25)
States with the highest number of MMIWG cases in 2017*:
New Mexico (78)
Washington (71)
Arizona (54)
Alaska (52)
Montana (41)
California (40)
*as reported by the Urban Indian Health Institute
For more information, please visit these websites:
Justice for Native Women
Urban Indian Health Institute MMIWG report
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women – MMIW
Walking With Our Sisters
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
