Indigenous Native American Women
Native american women and girls are facing an epidemic of violence that is hiding in plain sight.
Indigenous native american women. The missing and murdered indigenous women mmiw epidemic affects indigenous peoples in canada and the united states including the first nations inuit métis and native american communities. Why you should be learning from native american history this women s history month. Eighty four percent of native women experience violence in their lifetime and in some tribal communities native women are murdered at 10 times the national average. The bill is named for savanna lafontaine greywind a 22 year old indigenous woman who was abducted and killed in north dakota in 2017.
Native women face higher rates of violence than any other racial or ethnic group in the united states. Meanwhile federal studies have shown that in portions of the country with large native american populations native women are killed at a rate 10 times higher than the national average. In october the indian law resource center the alaska native women s resource center and the national indigenous women s resource center testified before the inter american commission on human rights bringing international attention to the high rates of violence against native women in the united states and the unworkable discriminatory criminal jurisdictional scheme that limits tribes. Exploring women s spirituality from an indigenous perspective.
They are being killed or trafficked at rates far higher than the rest of the u s. It has been described as a canadian national crisis and a canadian genocide. Indigenous history is american history and women are at the forefront. A doj study found that 97 of native victims have been abused by somebody who is non native.
A corresponding mass movement in the u s. Missing and murdered native women and girls national day of action may 5 2020 webinar. The rise of indigenous people s day. Although native american heritage day is a standing civil holiday that has been recognized since 2009 the rise of indigenous people s day as a federal.