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rapeculturerealities:

It is North America’s dark, open secret that native women are far more likely to be raped, and far more likely to be murdered.

No justice. That is the constant cry from friends and families of victims as countless cases are left unresolved and ignored.

This is not a problem with one cause, nor is it one that is going away. Therefore any attempt to move towards a solution must recognise how terrifyingly deep the international crisis of MMIW runs.

Despite thousands of women going missing every year, and thousands being raped over their lifetimes, startlingly few statistics are available.

Given the complicated and tense mesh of federal, state and tribal law – as well as entrenched racism towards indigenous people across North America – cases continue to fall through the cracks.

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I was reading threads in the Winnipeg subreddit today – always a mistake, I know. And I was struck over and over again by the level of racism in literally any discussion of First Nations news that got brought up. It’s that way fr the general Canada sub as well, but this is especially alarming and unnerving to me because Winnipeg has the highest percentage of Aboriginal people (11% of the city) of any major Canadian city. We’re your neighbors and coworkers.

But nothing about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada or the US is going to change until non-Natives start seeing us as human. The virulent hatred feeds and enables the ease with which Native women “slip through the cracks.”

The conversation of murdered and missing native women is not one North America wants to have – but it must