Minnesota is one of only seven states to have established a task force to study the prevalence of violence against Indigenous women and girls.
“Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island” opened earlier this year at All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis, and is now on display at the Fargo Public Library.
GREAT LISTEN: Missing, but not forgotten: Fargo library art exhibit tells story of missing indigenous women | MPR News
Walkthrough of the MMIW art exhibit “Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island” from Unicorn Riot on Vimeo.
Read More: unicornriot.ninja/2019/a-walk-through-of-bring-her-home-stolen-daughters-of-turtle-island/
Over 1.5 million Native women have experienced violence, including sexual violence, in their lifetime according to the National Institute of Justice. Native women experience violence of twice the rate of women in the U.S. and on some reservations, the murder rate of Native women is 10 times the national average. In 2016, 5,712 cases of missing Native women nationwide were reported to the National Crime Information Center. Only 116 of them were logged in the U.S. Department of Justice’s missing persons database, according to the Urban Indian Health Institute.
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Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age
Source: The Native American Women Who Fought Mass Sterilization | Time
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Appallingly sad.
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Cindy, I do not see this on the nightly news so I share it here. We have to know.
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Interesting post. Some beautiful photos and art work brought about by tragic circumstances.
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Thank you for being here.
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What to say… what to say to that? The genocide has not ended, has it.
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A pattern that keep repeating, Sha’Tara.
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Thanks for the links to the interesting articles and videos. That small grave was so sad to see.
Well done for continuing to raise awareness, Lara.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Thank you Pete!
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Lara, I cannot fathom why this is not bigger news, save that we are all invisible, an idea that daily becomes more real to my sad heart.
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I agree Michael. It is a crisis no one seems to notice as news.
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Reblogged this on DearTedandJody.
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It took me close to a day to get up the courage to comment. Still, I can not find the words to express the outrage. Warmest regards, Ed
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Ed, it hurts. I know it does. And anger is necessary to hit us where we will do something.
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We have serious problems such as the missing, abused, raped and murdered women, yet we still spend too much energy with the twitler–getting rid of him and his minions. Warmest regards, Ed
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A complicated, multifaceted and profoundly tragic issue!
Indeed, the traumatic effects of the original destruction and expropriation of indigenous communities in North America continue to unfold and to reverberate in the present, and will, unfortunately, continue to do so for an indefinite period of time, that is to say, for the time that the currently dominant political, economic and social regimes of North America continue to exist.
No substantive and necessary material aid will be offered to address or redress ( — and most emphatically, not that anything could ever be an adequate form of ‘redress’ –) this (and other) social ill(s) currently destroying the lives of so many trapped in communities now impersonally and inhumanly marginalized by a system that systemically and methodically prioritizes profits over people..
The art aptly amplifies what is intolerably unacceptable.
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Yes, Norman, this current system is not a Native system of governing yet we are all ruled by it. We The People does mean something.
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What a brilliant way to bring this tragedy to public attention.
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One by one, art by art, woman by woman, we all see…
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The best way to get poison out is to reopen the wound. You go, Lady!
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Thanks KC. Healing is the end goal.
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Oh my, I’ve never heard of that ‘six-year-period-in-the-1970s’ thing. Thank you for sharing.
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Incredibly tragic situation. I don’t know if the status of this proposed law has changed or not, but it’s disgusting how politics work in this country. https://www.indianz.com/News/2019/05/22/protections-for-native-women-in-limbo-am.asp
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