Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
This is a poster created by FLA presenting statistics on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
April 6, 2022
According to the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, 506 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) cases were found across 71 urban cities. 128 of these cases were those of missing Indigenous women, 280 were of murdered Indigenous women, and the remaining 98 of these cases were those of unknown status. The average age for missing and murdered Indigenous women was just 29 years old – only ten years older than some students here at Millikan.
It’s important to remember the atrocious acts committed to the Indigenous women, something that our Female Leadership Academy (FLA) is trying to do. Millikan’s FLA hosted a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women event on Friday, Mar. 25. Crystal Duncan, a PEACE junior and FLA member who headed this event, stated, “For [Millikan’s] Missing Murdered Indigenous Women’s day, we had an event on the rally stage. We also passed out red ribbons.”
These ribbons were handed out at lunch, with the red color symbolizing the MMIW movement. FLA also put together a slideshow presentation that teachers shared with their classes during their fourth period on Friday It is important to remember those missing and murdered Indigenous women, and to make sure that Indigenous women’s voices are no longer silenced.
Beth Soria • Apr 13, 2022 at 10:32 am
April 13, 2022
Dear Corydon Editor,
In Issue 6/2022 (published April 6, 2022), Laila Martin wrote an article titled “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.” The article brings awareness to the struggles of Indigenous women. It mentions how 506 cases of missing or murdered Indigenous women were found across 71 countries. The article gave exactly how many cases in the 506 were murders, missing, and undefined. It goes on to talk about how Millikan’s Female Leadership Academy (FLA) held an event on this topic at the rally stage. I’m glad that FLA is bringing awareness to this cause as well as this article. I would recommend diving a little deeper into this topic to give readers more information on it. This is my first time hearing about this and I have some unanswered questions. It’s stated the average age for these women to go missing or be murdered is 29 years old but, what is the age of the youngest victims, and what is the age of the oldest ones? Why do the perpetrators go after older women and not younger ones? Overall the article is very well written and has a good flow to it. It’s easy to understand and gives good information on the topic. Thank you for introducing me to this important topic.
Genesis • Apr 12, 2022 at 4:27 pm
In Issue 6/2022 (published April 6, 2022), Laila Matin writes an article titled “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.” The text starts with important information on the cases like how there were 506 cases across 71 urban cities, although it does not provide the range the cities span from. A chilling detail stated in the first paragraph is the age of these women, the average age being fairly young. I learned that Millikan’s FLA made sure to spread awareness on the issue and posted the posters you can see around campus. Matin also provides a link to an informational slide about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Matin mentioned that our 4th period would show it, but I didn’t see it so I checked it out. This presentation was able to provide more helpful information on the subject like how the US Department of Justice failed to report all 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls. I was interested in this article because I know about an issue with missing female cases being neglected in countries like Guatemala. The topic has arised thanks to Guatemalan women protesting against the gender discrimination within law enforcement. This article and the FLA discuss this issue happening mainly in America. This means that this injustice on female violence is an international problem, but it’s good to see that awareness is being spread.
Ethan Kalliomaa • Apr 12, 2022 at 3:18 pm
In Issue 6/2022 (published April 6th, 2022 ), Laila Matin wrote an article titled “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.” The article mentions the struggle for women across the globe. Adding the source from the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women was a good motive in explaining the topic. That really impacted me! Mentioning about the Female Leadership Academy (FLA) club and how they respect and support women activists of other regions was also a very interesting subject to learn about. That is very interesting to learn. The photo of one of the information posters was very helpful to describe. Well done! I definitely agree that this is a drastic problem that needs to be dealt with. I didn’t know that there was an event on Friday ( March 25th, 2022 ) about the tribute event. I think it’s really amazing to have a women’s leadership club in Milikan and that is about the moral values and the issue of women that are being treated in other societies across the globe and our nation as well. This could develop new perspectives on justice and social equality. I think the FLA will be very proud of you. Women’s rights are as important as any moral value.
Avery Wintjen • Apr 11, 2022 at 2:10 pm
In Issue 6/2022 (published April 6, 2022), Laila Matin wrote an article titled “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women”. The article brings to light the amount of missing and murdered indigenous women that have been reported. The article is very well written and Ioved how they highlighted this issue. The article is very well researched and gives great facts to the matter. I also enjoyed how the article highlighted the work that our own Female Leadership Academy is doing to help bring awareness to the issue. It was so interesting to learn how many Indigenous women are reported missing or dead and the ages of the women. The article did such a great job with this issue but I would have loved to see more from this article. The information was good but I feel like there could be more. The highlighting of specific students organizing to help was a nice touch to the article and makes me give thanks to those who work hard to bring this issue up despite everything. The article was amazing and had great information on a subject that is not often talked about. This article has prompted me to learn more about this and to hopefully help stop this atrocity.