May 5th is a day many wear red to raise awareness for Murdered & Missing Indigneous Women, Girls, 2 Spirit and others

The Center
for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that murder is the
third-leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaska
Native women.

Native American women are 7x more likely to go missing or murdered than any other ethnicity

The National Crime Information Center reports that, in 2016, there
were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native
women and girls, though the US Department of Justice’s federal
missing persons database only logged 116 cases

More information about this alarming epidemic can be found here via Native Hope https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw

Additonal resources can be found through Rising Hearts https://www.risinghearts.org/nomorestolenrelatives

Educate yourself and others and find ways to combat these numbers.

#MMIW #MMIWG2S #MMIP #RedDressDay #IndigenousPeople #Colonialism