Thank you for choosing this topic. I have been an advocate for MMIW the past seven years. My clan niece was raped, sodomized and murdered over 20 years ago and I still remember it like yesterday. There are so many issues facing our Missing & Murdered. Awareness by the general public is an important part of creating positive change. Senators will be voting in March 2022 on an MMIW bill. Tell all your politicians to support MMIW and Native American rights! Thank you!

I’m not even American, I live in Iran. This phenomenon is extremely disturbing. I always found it baffling how Americans in general focus on the history after the “discovery” of America rather that the hundreds of years of civilization thriving in the continent. The indigenous culture always mesmerized me. I hope your people finally find the peace and prosperity they deserve.

I'm using my other half tablet. Thank you! Thank you for making and sharing your video! My Mother is Alaskan Aluet. I grew up as an Army Brat. I also served proudly in the Army. I was sexually assaulted at my first duty assignment 97th General Hospital Frankfurt Germany. I didn't report it. I'm ashamed now because I kept quiet. I'll be 59 come Saturday. I've been called everything but a White woman. Thank you again for telling and informing about Missing, Murdered, Indigenous Women. I'm fortunate to have not been murdered. I send up prayers. Swiping tears away. Thank You for listening. JoAnn Sigby

Be safe my sisters! Look out for each other. Don't be against each other.

Thank you for this information. I really hope the women of MMIW or MMIG really hope they are resting peacefully. I hope justice is done and I hope there's a better system that's ACTUALLY promising. Please treat others how you want to be treated. Their race or skin color should not matter to you.💖

This is so well written and laid out. I can't imagine this was easy to research and record. I lived in Alaska for 8 years and the treatment of Indigenous people was awful. I took Alaska studies and learned a little about Alaska's tribes, my final project was on the Tlingit tribe. A lot of people don't understand how Alaska's native corporations work, as well, and assume everyone gets big payouts and that isn't true at all. I truly enjoyed your video, I feel like I learned a lot and I'll share this, especially to my Alaskan friends.

Thank you for Singing to us at the end, I'm in tears and needed this! #NoMoreStolenSisters

I’m moving to the city for college next year (which is 9 hours away and that’s the closest college) if everything goes well with the pandemic. I’m tired of being so fucking afraid that I’ll end up in the statistic of MMIWG and the government/RCMP not doing SHIT because I’m “just a runway” or “just another native”. I’m 17 years old and I shouldn’t think like this. I think about the women and girls’ families. Rip to every beautiful, appreciated native soul that has been murdered and never got justice.❤️🥺

@amyburnette7324

4 жыл бұрын

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@nevereverstopsinging

3 жыл бұрын

Make a public video stating that your missing status is NOT a result of runaway or accident and confirm that if you haven’t contacted certain people within a specific amount of time. Don’t let the pigs ignore your existence. Bless you sister

@dineend8335

3 жыл бұрын

It is their bad karma that is doing it. In a sense they deserved it, they did something bad in a past life.

Thank you for this information and video. I will share this on my Facebook page.

Nightmare with no answers!!!!u have my back...my sisters!!!!🙏🙏💜💙🌷🌷🌷

I am also doing research and needsing to take many breaks. Thank you for this work and your service to us all.

I’m writing a speech to help spread this for my original oratory at school. This helped me start my speech, thank you

I am glad I came across this! It so heartbreaking to hear the stories and numbers. Thank you.

I'm on a predominantly white college campus and I'm wearing my red with pride I also have my face paint on and people just stare not even asking why It's sad how today was marked as a national day yet no one knows about it. This is supposed to be an awareness day and yet it seems like the only people who know about this are the ones who are being affected I hope that at some point today someone will ask me why I'm wearing what I am today. I hope that one day everyone understands what May 5th is and why it's an important day I wrote so many emails, research papers, essays, and even created posters to try to show the significance of this human rights crisis to administrators on my campus but since there's not many people in the indigenous community here they seem to have no interest in even bringing awareness or attention to it Yet last month they spent every single week having events and speakers talk about bringing awareness to sexual assaults It's really sad but I'm hopeful that at some point people will start to recognize the disproportionate hate indigenous communities receive

Great work Chelsey.

My partner told me when she was kidnapped, she was in middle school. She also told me about the oils corporations bringing in men and how them and cops go into reservation to kidnap native children and do what they want. My heart broke hearing all of that and it enraged me, no more missing sisters

@terriejohnston8801

3 жыл бұрын

WOW! That's like MAJOR possible LEADs to FBI or local law inforcement to get off their ass @ start ASKING MORE QUESTIONs. SOME of the scum they hire to WORK the Fields..Run the equipment Whatever, may JUST possibly KNOW something. Statistics are beyond belief for MMIW

@qaat2012

2 жыл бұрын

@@terriejohnston8801 Unfortunately it is well known by many authorities that many of our missing are sex trafficked to pipelines man camps and boats on the Great Lakes. The problem is there are always trafficking insiders who infiltrate police, social work and political offices.

Thank you for this. I am more informed now. I often ask myself if the weaponised privileged white cis het male libido can ever be constrained enough to allow any others to thrive. And the longer I live, the broader my experience and knowledge, the more I realise the sad answer is, probably never. I haz a sad. :(

The more I learn about mmiw the more disturbed I am by the lack of coverage and awareness there is.

Thank you ❤

I’m so sorry this does not have more views

excellent job!

I live on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, and our city has a disproportionately large number of appropriated names with almost no resources for finding out about the people who used to live here. We have dug up sacred burial mounds that the Hopewell peoples left before even the Anishinaabe people lived here -- and mostly just in the name of urban development. Cheekily, we have even named a wood lined "scenic" road along the river as "Indian Mounds Drive". I trace my lineage almost entirely from white European descent, and yet I have far more affinity for the Anishinaabe than I do for my own "people". Probably because I was traumatized by my Christian upbringing, am trans and autistic and therefore very much othered by my culture, and also an anarchist who thinks a society based on the truly egalitarian structures that the Anishinaabe use is the type of society we should strive for. I've also been long aware of the Silent Epidemic and the genocide which continues to this day. I wish I had more power to change things on my own, but I will always use my voice and limited influence to bring as much awareness as I can.

@antoniapineiro7124

2 жыл бұрын

Here is just a tiny bit of history that never gets included in classes or stories of local history, because it has become so very white washed here: “The history of Grand Rapids does not have a backdrop of conflict with the Indians. There are no tales of raids and scalping and scourging of the settlement with flame.”liv To some degree, the statement is so laughable as to not even be worth comment. After all, the opening page of Lydens’ book begins with the story of the Odawa gathering to hear Pontiac propose that the indigenous people living in the region unite to fight back against the white invasion.lv Pontiac-who helped to coordinate a war against the tide of settlers migrating into the Midwest-was present at 1761 in the Grand River region, speaking at an assembly of 3,000. He visited again in 1762 and 1763.lvi His visits are representative of what had been a long military resistance to colonization, often with the participation of indigenous people from the Grand Rapids area. Many Odawa participated in an attack on Detroit in 1704, with other groups doing so again in 1712.lvii The Anishinaabeg people had a long string of military successes from 1754 until the War of 1812, but they were unable to keep the white settlers from advancing into the territory.lviii These included not only autonomous efforts, but also coordinated efforts between numerous groups, such as the aforementioned alliance with Pontiac. In a similar way, Odawa people living in the Grand River valley joined Tecumseh’s movement to united indigenous communities in the Midwest against the United States, calling for military resistance and a return to traditional values. At least two prominent chiefs included in histories of Grand Rapids were involved in the military resistance, with Noahquageshik even witnessing Tecumseh’s death on the battlefield.lix

Thank you for this well organized presentation. I have a couple of questions for purposes of statistics are only tribal members counted or anyone with heritage? Also for purposes of jurisdiction, is a non native a person who is not a member of the nation? Could a non native be someone with ancestry or even some one who lives on the res but is not a citizen and therefore if that person commits a crime, the federal govt has jurisdiction? Finally, although historically Native Americans were unambiguously brown and racialized, many contemporary Natives embrace the idea that being Native today could be any race, which would complicate the idea of racial targeting based on how one looks like. Not every Native looks like "Pocahontas" today so how is this multi racial Native identity reconciled with targeting that is based on perceived race. Finally, are the statistics inclusive of Natives that are off res ? Thank you for your work. ❤️ in solidarity,

how do we help make a change and what did you look up to do your research for MMIW, i would love to know more.

The epidemic is not confined to the US borders. The numbers are horrific in Canada as well. Indigenous women are seen as disposable, by the predators and sadly, the police. We need more awareness. We need men to start speaking out. Only then will this in my opinion stop

This is realy sad.. .

I had to re-watch this, I’ve done my research over the years and I wanna help all the amazing strong Aboriginals because this is so harmful and you are humans with rights. I wish more would change.

Does anyone have citations on the community coalitions formed to keep at risk women aware of potential perpetrators etc.? I am writing a research paper on this topic.

Do you have instagram? I have a story to share with you.

You need to find a better way presents this information. I know it’s important but it just could not hold my attention