Jordan Marie “Brings Three White Horses” Daniel on Murdered, Missing, Indigenous Women

She discusses her advocacy, the issue, and others that are doing great work today.
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Native women living on tribal lands are murdered at an extremely high rate — in some communities, more than 10 times the national average. 4 percent of Canada’s female population — made up nearly 25 percent of its female indigenous homicide victims in 2012. https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/667335392/police-in-many-u-s-cities-fail-to-track-murdered-missing-indigenous-women .
From a post by @nativein_la:
In 2016, 5,712 cases of missing’s were documented by @urbanindianhealthinstitute & 116 of those cases were documented by the Department of Justice. Homicide is the 3rd leading cause of death & 84% of Native Women will experience violence in their lifetime. This isn’t right.
@sovereignbodies seeks to build on indigenous traditions of gathering data and knowledge transfer to create the first ever database to find our stolen:
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