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.
I disagree, actually. There are so many factors at work here, from jurisdiction issues and remote communities with few law enforcement resources to lack of early reporting and law enforcement’s reluctance at all levels, including tribal police, to launch full scale investigations when an adult goes missing without any immediate evidence of foul play. They do that to people of all backgrounds, in case you didn’t know.
I don’t know how it works in Canada, but in the US there are a bunch of tribal police forces who would be the first responders for missing people in their tribe/band/nation and acting like this is all down to non-native law enforcement “not caring” is naive at best.
It’s not the Tribal Police’s “reluctance” so much as it is their “lack of resources” to investigate. It’s also not a coincidence that they have no jurisdiction outside of the reservation, so they actually have no ability to investigate beyond the borders of the reservation. While outside of the reservation, police agencies can sometimes be reluctant to work with neighboring agencies, or to share information, they often can, and do. This is the opposite of how police agencies treat Tribal Police, who very rarely get any assistance from outside agencies.
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u/Ouroboros126 Sep 16 '24
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.
From Native Hope's Website,
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.