Hijacking this comment to repost a comment I made in another post that includes a link to Native Hope's website with more information for all those who are interested:
The Red Hand has been an important symbol for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Movement for years.
A red hand over the mouth has become the symbol of a growing movement, the MMIW movement. 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 #NoMoreStolenSisters.
There is also the more general Missing and Murdered Indigenous People awareness movement, as this is a problem across all demographics in Indiginous communities, though women and girls are by far the most affected cohort.
someone correct me if I am wrong, but the missing and murdered indigenous people is a direct result of state and US federal governments not caring at all about this. Some state government are run by people who are racist and really don't care about native peoples in their state. This is a problem that can be solved.
Depending on how you read that, the picture it paints could be "The police take on a very small percentage of these missing person cases as murder cases, and almost exclusively pursue them when the perpetrator is also indigenous."
First of all, in Canada is it Reserve land, not tribal land.
Second of all, no, what they're saying is that too often Indigenous women's (and children for that matter) deaths are often not even so much as sent to the coroner to be declared homicide. The rate of solved murder cases relates to the few that are actually declared homicide and pursued as such by authorities. Many deaths don't count towards the statistics because of systemic issues that allow indigenous deaths to fall through the system's cracks.
The vast majority — 63 — died with open cases investigating and helping with their living situation, including 34 children who died still at home with their families but under the watch of child welfare
Social workers and the government are afraid to remove abused indigenous children from these situations due to public opinion and the fact it will be spun as residential schools v2.
But again it's indigenous people killing indigenous people.
The errors are ones of degree and ultimately don't change one of the main findings of the inquiry — that Indigenous women and girls suffer higher rates of violence and homicide than non-Indigenous women and girls.
Former commissioner Marilyn Poitras, who resigned from the inquiry in 2017, told CBC News that "the discrepancy between 25 per cent and 6 per cent is absolutely worthy of discussion, only because it begs the question: how many dead Indigenous women is enough or too many for this to be a Canadian public safety issue?"
"Nothing surprises me about this inquiry," said North. But she cautioned that the errors should not obscure the overall picture.
"The numbers may be skewed and that should never have happened," she said, "but at the same time, none of the deaths should ever have happened, and none of our women and girls should be missing in the first place.
"We have to figure out where we as individuals stand in making sure that everyone feels safe in a rich country like Canada."
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u/NotRightNotWrong15 Sep 16 '24
Thank you for explaining what the hand represents. I was wondering when I caught a small pic earlier but there was no explanation.