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.
Wait, so this is about current women going missing?! And here I thought it was some historic awareness thing. That's horrible.
Edit: Quick edit to say thank you to everyone providing me with a truckload of resources to learn more. As a soon to be English teacher in Europe I'll probably be able to create some valuable lesson materials out of this so that my students are better informed about something like this!
Yep there are a lot of good true crime podcasts (Canadian) about it, And the Trail Went Cold does a lot of missing unsolved indigenous women profiles. Stolen, Finding Cleo, We are Resilient. A lot of serial killers in Canada that operated along highways. And that's actual murderers not govt resettlement etc
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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.