The Ties that Bind Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
What is it that can bring together a diverse crowd that includes:
judges from the Navajo bench and the New Mexico Court of Appeals;
state senators from Arizona, Colorado, North Dakota, North Carolina and Ohio
provincial representatives in Winnipeg and Toronto
lawyers from Arizona, West Virginia, Kansas, Wisconsin and South Dakota
a Museum of the American Indian Board of Trustees member
a nationally recognized Navajo author and educator
37 elected Native American and First Nations officials, including governors and chiefs
journalists
CEOs & upper management of international oil, entertainment, and manufacturing companies
heroin wholesalers
an English jeweler
a few Ambassadors
rock musicians, a boxer and a flautist
some nuns
some teachers
AIM members across the country
police sprinkled from small towns like Odessa, TX and big cities across the continent
a favorite fashion model of Georgio Armani
a custom machining shop in Illinois
a sand and gravel company in Montana
What do military bases in the US and mass graves in the US have in common?
What has scared regional chiefs, environmental activists, educators and allies into silence?
What would bring a young car wash attendant from Northern New Mexico and a Proud Christian in Montana together to cause a third woman’s death before she could be tamed and turned out?
What would lead an FBI agent associated with the Southern Arizona Anti-Trafficking Unified Response Network to tell someone in organized crime, “this lady knows too much”?
What inspires people to intentionally breed children to be sold into sexual slavery?
What has brought together Ancestors from over 400 First Nations and 400 Native American tribes–going as far back as those who inspired their creation stories–and one woman?
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