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Celebrating Native American women
On this weekend edition of Indian Country Today, the Colville Tribes celebrate a milestone. And we salute the mothers, sisters, aunts, daughters and grandmothers.
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May 7, 2021
Rodney Cawston is the Chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. He joins the show to talk about an important anniversary for all Native Americans.
On the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Mary Kathryn Nagle, who is Cherokee, joined the show to talk about the continuing crisis. Shari Pena, who is Cherokee, is a wife and the mother of four who has always wanted to have a large family. Shari said she and her husband Hyrum wanted to be foster parents long before they had biological children.
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Keely Linton knows first-hand about the abuse suffered by Indigenous women.
She experienced domestic abuse, and she saw that violence reflected in the experiences of family and friends, and through her advocacy work.
But because of lapses in reporting and a lack of coordination between tribal, county and federal governments, Linton who is Íipay and Cupeno Native from the Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians said accurate, local data is hard to come by.
“There’s just a lack of research and collective data to really know how many have been missing, how many have been murdered,” Linton said. “It’s really not something that has really been tracked properly.”
MMIWG movement erased online
Many in Indian Country woke up Thursday to a blank Instagram page as their posts from less than 24 hours before, related to the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis, vanished
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May 6, 2021
In this image provided by the Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker, family members and advocates participating in a walk on the Navajo Nation, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, near Window Rock, Ariz., to commemorate a day of awareness for the crisis of violence against Indigenous women and children. (Byron C. Shorty, Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker via AP)
Many in Indian Country woke up Thursday to a blank Instagram page as their posts from less than 24 hours before, related to the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis, vanished