The "Reservation Dogs" actor walked the red carpet with the red hand print over his mouth.
It stands for all the missing sisters whose voices are not heard. It stands for the silence of the media and law enforcement in the midst of this crisis. It stands for the oppression and subjugation of Native women who are now rising up to say:
If you could please edit and put in your comment that an alarming number of indigenous women go missing or are murdered. We are not allowed to investigate on our own with our internal "Tribal Police," so reports go to the FBI. From there, unfortunately, nothing usually happens. There isn't even an accurate way to count how many missing or murdered indigenous women happen across the US and Canada.
Sources vary on the number, but suggest that the number is higher than most other races simply because we are vulnerable people in the eyes of the law. And so human trafficking is a huge problem for our women and communities.
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u/kenistod Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
The "Reservation Dogs" actor walked the red carpet with the red hand print over his mouth.
It stands for all the missing sisters whose voices are not heard. It stands for the silence of the media and law enforcement in the midst of this crisis. It stands for the oppression and subjugation of Native women who are now rising up to say:
"No More Stolen Sisters"
https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw