#mmiw day

[decolonize-the-left]

MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) is a human rights crisis of violence against Indigenous women in Canada and the United States

Quick facts:

4 of 5 Native women will experience violence

1/3 of Native women will experience sexual violence (and over 2/3 of that is committed by non-natives)

Murder is our 3rd leading cause of death

On some reservations MMIWG2S are murdered at 10x the national average rate

In general native women and girls are raped at twice the average national rate

According to a report by USA today, native women also go missing at the twice average national rate

Nearly all rapes are perpetuated by off reservations settlers who also face no legal repercussions (legal loopholes state you must be on tribal ground to be persecuted by tribal police and most don't stick sround)

Less than 1% of MMIW cases are logged

It's been awhile since I've since Ive posted about this, but it's a very important topic and one that's especially important to me right now.

Some of you following me have all the context clues but I'll say it plainly here on this post. My cousin is one of the many MMIW that have died awful deaths. I myself am one of the natives who've experiences violence and sexual violence. The article is right. I don't know a native who hasn't. And that shouldn't have to be our reality.

But it doesn't change without more support and we don't get support by keeping people in the dark. Unfortunately resources are directly tied to public interest in an issue. The actual MMIW site for example says it's on hiatus when you go to the resource section.

So please share this so that someone else can learn and become an ally to the cause. The way people treat native women, girls, and two spirits is awful and deserves more attention than it's getting.

May 5th is MMIW awareness day; please wear red, share our posts, schedule a vigil, make your own graphics/posts in support, etc. Make some time to show you care that day.

Just don't use the red hand over your mouth, this is representative of the violent silence MMIW are forced to keep in their graves and how those of us alive must speak for them. Its a heavy symbol that carries responsibility so it's best left alone if you aren't indigenous.

#MMIW #mmiwg2s #usa #canda #turtle island #search the landfill #feminism #feminists #equality #misogyny #ndn #first nations #native American #human rights #mmiw epidemic #reposting this may 5 #may 5 #mmiw day #schedule this post #tw #decolstw

[biophonies]

when I drew this comic 3 years ago I had NO idea how far it would reach. I'm happy to finally share a corrected version with proper abbreviations, and even MORE state names of indigenous origin ♥️

however, the goal of this comic was to inspire people to do your OWN research on indigenous history. To question everything we have been taught, and everything that has been pointedly left out. This erasure, this “forgetting”, of history is not just of the past… it is happening now. - Across so-called Canada, the US, and US-occupied islands, native women are victims of murder at 10-12x the rate of non-native people, and are the most likely to go missing without being searched for by the law. - Native reservations have the highest rates of poverty in the US, with over HALF of tribal homes with no access to clean water (with more joining this list by the year) - Native people are 6-10x more likely to be unhoused than the rest of the population, and native teens suffer suicide rates higher than any other demographic. This list of modern day genocide goes on (thank you for compiling @theindigenousanarchist <3) and yet take a look at those environmental stats!

Native people manage to do SO much for the planet as a whole - thanklessly - and with all this stacked against them. Don't even get me started on kin fighting in south america. Could you imagine if there was help? #landback is resistance to genocide, and it is the key to saving our warming earth.

So look into it and the other hashtags, cuz a cartoon goose ain't a substitute for a proper education. Love to my grandparents who always kept a map of tribal territories of turtle island on their wall, to speaking on our Tsalagi & Saponi heritage. Love & solidarity forever, happy research, and happy #indigenouspeoplesday

LANDBACK.ORG

(Also, if you care to support the artist, I'm publishing a book ! and writing another - a fantastical afroindigenous graphic novel - that I post exclusively about with tons of other art on my patreon.)

#mmiw #searchthelandfill #landback #art #comic #illustration #indigenous peoples day #rights #indigenous rights #autonomy #statistics #love #freedom #borders #history #usa #canada #turtle island #mariah-rose marie

[adulting-sucks]

MMIW Day-May 5 this is so important

#mmiw #mmiw day #this is so important #so many indigenous women and girls dead or missing #it’s too many

[tepkunset]

May 5 is the Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People. (Also known as Red Dress Day.)

Show your support and pass on your strength by wearing red on May 5, and raising awareness. And if you have never read the Reclaiming Power and Place report, you can do so here.

Additionally, while the day is typically centred in Turtle Island, let us also not forget our international cousins, especially in Palestine and Sudan.

#mmiw #mmiwg2s #red dress day

[teakwoodtimes]

1. Listen To and Call Other White Settlers to Listen to Indigenous Truth Telling

2. Support and Donate Money or Land to Indigenous Land Return Efforts

3. Abdicate Time and Space to Indigenous People and Issues in Your Intersectional Social Justice Work

4. Stop Treating Indigenous Genocide and Settler Violence as Things of the Past

#mmiw #land back #native americans #indigenous rights #indigenous people's day

[missegyptiana]

may 5th. red dress day. wear red. hang a red dress. educate. learn. post. please spread awareness of the tragedies the indigenous community has been facing for decades. mmiwg2s is a severe emergency and the government ignores their cases or doesn’t care to finish the case of the missing murdered indigenous women girls and 2 spirited peoples. speak up. stand with us. not just today, but everyday. it’s just as important as other world issues.

#mmiw2s #mmiwawareness #mmiwg2s #mmiwg #mmiw #tw violence #tw indigenous violence #tw government mention #tw murder #tw abuse #indigenous #red dress day

[houseofpurplestars]

My partner and I held a vigil tonight for some of Florida's missing Indigenous women. We drew their portraits based on their missing persons photos.

#mmiw #missing and murdered indigenous women #thanksgiving #art #day of mourning

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Indigenous Peoples Day

We live on stolen land. Give it the fuck back.

-fae

#indigenous people #missing and murdered indigenous women #mmiw #indigenous peoples day #columbus day #indigenous people day

[night-wyld-system]

Today is MMIWG2S Awareness Day

MMIWG for those who are unaware is missing & murdered indigenous women, girls, and 2-spirit people. There is also MMIW and MMIWG. There has been an ongoing continuation of a mass genocide of Native people in the country I live in, the United States. Women, girls, and 2-spirit people- are very often abducted on reservations or targeted by people for violent crimes. The rates at which is occurs is disproportionate to all other demographics in America.

The disappearances and deaths of these people are being overlooked and refused to be considered.

That white house has made a statement yesterday as well- and though it is nice to see it addressed... lives of Natives are still in danger. This is linked for anyone who wants to know the governments statement here. I understand that this statement made by the US government might ring hollow. But it may be something other want to see.

#native #native american #mmiw #mmiw2s #mmiw awareness #mmiw awareness day #mmiw2s day

[nando161mando]

To raise awareness of the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, two-spirit people and relatives (#MMIW/R), activists in Minnesota use Valentine’s Day, February 14, to hold events, along with May 5 being the official MMIW day. [Video]

#MMIW/R #indigenous #indigenous women #minnesota #valentines day #february 14 #may 5 #minneapolis #161 #1312 #class war #antifa #antifascist #antifaschistische aktion #antiauthoritarian #antinazi #usa news #usa #united states #unitedstateofamerica #unitedsnakes #american #america #biden administration #president biden #joe biden #biden #oppression #oppressor #free all oppressed peoples

[13thpythagoras]

#happy Fibonacci day #always thankful every day #mmiw #mmip #awareness #the numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are the 'golden ratio' apart from each other #the golden ratio shows up in the spiral arms of galaxies and the seed patterns in sunflowers #that's all today...much love

[cipher-the-sidhe]

Osiyo nigvda. I belong to the Anigiloi of the Eastern Band of the great Tsalagi nation, who remain on our ancestral homeland along the Ocanaluftee river, where the Uktena lives.

I reside on the unceded territory of the Lummi Nation, Nooksack Tribe, and Coast Salish peoples. I honor the stewards of these lands and waterways, and give recognition and love to Kama Kulshan and the orca and salmon people of the Salish sea.

Today we remember and mourn the children that were stolen from us across Turtle Island, and we celebrate that we are still here. We survived, and we remember.

#orange shirt day #every child matters #mmiw #no more stolen sisters #indigenous #native

[mandiemegatron]

Reminder to not wear red and white for Canada day today - instead, wear orange to show support for all the slaughtered indigenous children found at residential schools. Wear orange for the MMIW, for all the indigenous family members that never made it home.

No pride in genocide.

Fuck Canada Day, fuck your celebrations.

#fuck canada day #wear orange #mmiw #no pride in genocide #boost #indigenous awareness #please reblog this

[danepopfrippery]

(I dont know who made the og meme but i love it).

Hit up to see whose land you’re kn

And mmiw to help missing and murdered indigenous women (indigenous women are 3xs as likely as other women to go missing or be murdered in the us and canada)

#indigenous activism #indigenous peoples day #missing and murdered indigenous women #mmiw #fuck christopher columbus

[missegyptiana]

wear red. hang red clothing outside. post about this severe issue. educate others. learn about it.

#missing murdered indigenous women girls and 2 spirits #mmiwgt2s #mmiwawareness #mmiwg #mmiwg2s #tw murder #red dress day #indigneous #tw indigenous violence #tw violence #mmiw

[radhyena]

Tomorrow is Canada day and many indigenous people will not be celebrating due to a violent history of indigenous oppression, specifically the mass graves found at residential school sites. Thousands of children who died away from their families.

Some would say this is history and should be left in the past but the fact is indigenous people are still suffering under the Canadian government. There is an epidemic of indigenous women going missing or being killed and nothing is being done about it. There are reserves without fresh water. Indigenous people have been targeted by eugenicists since the 20’s with cases popping up as recently as 2019.

We cannot just apologize for the wrongs of our history we must actively work to fix them.

#mmiw #radblr #Canada day