Research Guides: Native American Heritage Month 2022: Issue: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW)

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2020 Missing American Indian and Alaska Native Persons Data
Data compiled as part of Operation Lady Justice, the presidential task force on missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
A snapshot of data from 71 urban cities in the United States.
Our Bodies, Our Stories
Our Bodies, Our Stories is a series of reports that details the scope of violence against Native women across the nation.
Seeking Justice: How VAWA Reduced the Stronghold Over American Indian and Alaska Native Women
"Although AI and AN make up a small portion of the U.S. population, when compared by ethnicity, their rates show domestic and dating violence victimization rates far higher than other ethnic groups. This article focuses on how the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has impacted these women and also discusses future steps to enhance justice reforms."

Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters by Kim Anderson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781772123906
Publication Date: 2018-06-04
In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective.
Indigenous Women and Violence by Lynn Stephen (Editor); Shannon Speed (Editor)
ISBN: 0816542627
Publication Date: 2021-03-23
Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal justice system, and Indigenous justice.