Facts About Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women

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Jaime Black a Métis artist stands with a red dress draped around her as they move to touch another that hands from a tree. Another red dress can be seen blurry in both the foreground, and many more in the background.

Red Dress Day is observed on May 5 each year to raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit+ people in North America.
This annual remembrance traces its roots back to the REDress Project
initiated by Métis artist Jamie Black in 2010.Red Dress Day is encouraged to be participated in by all.

Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel, an Indigenous athlete faces the camera with a stoic face as a red handprint of paint lays across their lips and cheeks as if being silenced by the paint.

The origin of the Red Handprint dates back to 2019 when athlete Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel made an appearance at the Boston Marathon with the handprint on her mouth. Daniel is part of the Kul Wicasa Oyate community, more commonly known as the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. Ever since, thousands of Native American women including celebrities have made a statement with this symbol, conveying that no more explanation is needed for the staggering rates of violence against women that go ignored."If you do the right research and talk about it in the right way, then it's good, but if you're mocking or giving misleading information then that's where you cross the line."This symbol should only be used by Indigenous people.

You may notice different communities using different versions of the acronym "MMIW", this is usually done to add a personhood outside of the "women" descriptor.Most often you will see MMIWG2S which is used to include young girls, and those who are Two Spirit or LGBTQIA+. It's important to note, Two Spirit is a specific belief and term in Indigneous communities; it should not be used as an identity by non-indigenous people.

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