Indigenous abolitionists are addressing the crisis of missing and murdered women, girls and two-spirit people.
, even though Native people only comprise about 6 percent of the state’s population. At the federal level, numbers that have been recorded by the FBI and the CDC are wildly inconsistent, and suggest a general trend of underreporting. That makes data justice work around this issue so important, which we’ll circle back to in a bit.
It is just all of those different ways that we are able to support. And we have to be careful, there is a fine line. We’re not a social services agency. We understand that many times those just create additional barriers in terms of providing resources and they’re just often given the runaround. And so at times we’re able to make small cash grants and just saying, like, “Hey, here’s some support to help you keep your lights on.
And that’s not to say that… Of course we took precautionary measures when he was released. We helped to support the family moving, and especially for her younger children, like ensuring their safety and that they would not be close by when he was released.
And so kind of using that example as we navigate through the systems with the MMIW and MMIR families that we know that in some of these cases, it was one of my close friends and relatives, Yogi McGarva. He was murdered by a non-native person in his home on his tribal lands. He was hit in the back of his head. He didn’t see it coming. He had been going to… He’s a two-spirit relative.
And I was just in tears. It was just a moment of just so much incredible strength and resilience for our peoples. And we were able to feed 600 people for free that day. Luckily there was enough food and every family was able to have the time to share their story, to have that platform to share their story about their loved ones.
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