MMIW: Video Essay about Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

This is a video essay about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls where I talk about statistics, legal issues, psychology and sociology, and relation to other movements.

Assault story time stamps: 8:11 - 14:02

If you know "Tavi," the artist of the image in the thumbnail, please let me know how to link them here.
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- Aubrey Dameron Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MissingAubreyDameron
- Ashley Loring Heavyrunner GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ashley-loring-heavyrunner-seach-fund
- Tiny House Warriors: http://www.tinyhousewarriors.com/
- The Jingle Dress Project: https://mailchi.mp/tapahe/jingle-dress-project
- The Red Ribbon Skirt Society: https://www.shamusproject.com/red-ribbon-skirt-society
- "MMIW Resource Guide" Lakota People's Law Project: https://www.lakotalaw.org/news/2020-05-01/mmiw-resource-guide

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- "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women" Native Women's Wilderness: https://www.nativewomenswilderness.org/mmiw
- "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn, Girls, and Two Spirit" Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women: https://www.csvanw.org/mmiw/
- "Murdered and Missing Native American Women Challenge Police and Courts" The Center for Public Integrity: https://publicintegrity.org/politics/murdered-and-missing-native-american-women-challenge-police-and-courts/
- "Savanna's Act": https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1942/BILLS-115s1942es.pdf
- "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A Snapshot of Data from 71 urban cities in the United States" Urban Indian Health Institute: http://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf
- "Research Policy Update: Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women" National Congress of American Indians: http://www.ncai.org/policy-research-center/research-data/prc-publications/VAWA_Data_Brief__FINAL_2_1_2018.pdf
- "Addressing the Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls" Cultural Survival: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/addressing-epidemic-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls
- "The Tragedy of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women" Powwow.com: https://www.powwows.com/the-tragedy-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw/
- "Media Portrayals of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women" Canada's Centre for Digital and Media Literacy: https://mediasmarts.ca/diversity-media/aboriginal-people/media-portrayals-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women
- "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirited: What You Should Know" Simon Fraser University: http://www.sfu.ca/olc/indigenous/indigenous-sfu-community-stories/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-girls-and-two-spirited-what-you-should-know
- "Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women – Why Not to Dress as Pocahottie for Halloween" The Good Men Project: https://goodmenproject.com/social-justice-2/murdered-missing-indigenous-women-not-dress-pocahottie-halloween-dg/
- "How Racism Against Native People Is Normalized, From Mascots to Costumes" Heather Davidson op ed in Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-racism-against-native-people-is-normalized-from-mascots-to-costumes
- "May 5 is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls" Native News Online: https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/may-5-is-national-day-of-awareness-for-missing-and-murdered-native-women-and-girls
- "Black feminism and intersectionality" Sharon Smith on International Socialist Review: https://isreview.org/issue/91/black-feminism-and-intersectionality
- "not your mascot: opinions vs data" (Tweet meta-analysis) Indigenous.engineering: https://indigenous.engineering/projects/Not_Your_Mascot.html
- "Summary of the APA Resolution Recommending Retirement of American Indian Mascots" American Psychological Association: Summary of the APA Resolution Recommending Retirement of American Indian Mascots

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The research and comments in this video were conducted by me. Any direct quotes are marked by quotation marks in the narrative captioning. The statistics in this video are not universal and are mostly derived from the United States, its agencies, and organizations within the US. Data and statistics are recorded by several organizations that might be represented differently from those included in this video. All names shared in this video were publicly available.

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