Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Month

May was Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Awareness Month. The American Indian Center joins Chairty and Kirstyn for a discussion of the resources the American Indian Center offers in the Springfield area, and what everyone can do to raise awareness about missing and murdered indigenous women.

To find out more about The American Indian Center, check out their website: https://www.aicspringfield.org/

Related resources for further reading:

Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt, Editors.

Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA from Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/es/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AMR510352007ENGLISH.pdf

MMIW Resource Guide from Lakota People’s Law Project https://lakotalaw.org/news/2020-05-01/mmiw-resource-guide

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls from Urban Indian Health Institute https://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigeno us-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf

Violence Against Women Resource Center – Key Statistics from National Congress of American Indians https://www.ncai.org/section/vawa/overview/key-statistics

The Truth Behind Canada’s Missing Girls by BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3HzBsnTmCc

Bring Her Home, documentary by PBS https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/bring-her-home