What Does the Red Hand Mean for MMIW?

In recent years, awareness and calls for justice for Indigenous Women have been slowly growing, with many on social media and at organised events choosing to wear red handprints across their mouths, with matching red dresses, all as a way of showing solidarity and spreading awareness of the MMIW epidemic.

Simply Complicated: How Many MMIW are There?

All across the North American continent, Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirits are going missing or being murdered at crazy rates- in some places, they are victimised more than any other ethnic group. In this article, we’ll be discussing in detail just how many Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) there are in the US and Canada, as well as a few reasons this might be.

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