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MMIW

Background Information/ Overview

James, Nathan. Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) : overview of recent research, legislation, and selected issues for Congress. (R47010). Congressional Research Service. 2023 (July 3).

U. S. Government Accountability Office. Missing or murdered Indigenous women : new efforts are underway but opportunities exist to improve the federal response : report to congressional requesters. 2021 (October). GAO-22-104045

Books & Reports

Amnesty International. The never-ending maze: Continued failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA. 2022, May 17, AMR 51/5484/2022.

More than half of all American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime; one in three have experienced rape. Since Amnesty International first reported on this issue in 2007, rates of violence against Indigenous women have not significantly changed, and the US government continues to fail to adequately prevent and respond to such violence. Amnesty International

Casselman, Amy L. Injustice in Indian Country : Jurisdiction, American Law, and Sexual Violence against Native Women. New York: Peter Lang, 2016.

Quote that reads, "Renee Brewer, a victim’s advocate. . . remembers a woman who had been assaulted and called the police. With the attacker still hiding in the woman’s closet, four different law enforcement agencies argued on the front lawn about whose case it was." Amy L. Casselman. From Injustice in Indian Country

Deer, Sarah. The Beginning and End of Rape : Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

 

Gable, Mona. Searching for Savanna : The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence against the Many. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York, NY: Atria Books, 2023.

Sterritt, Angela. Unbroken : My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls. Vancouver ; Greystone Books, 2023.

The Not Invisible Act Commission. Not one more: Findings & recommendations of the Not Invisible Act Commission. Office of Indian Affairs, U.S. Dept of the Interior, 2023 (November 1).

The Sovereign Bodies Institute. https://www.sovereign-bodies.org

  • Sovereign Bodies Institute (SBI) builds on Indigenous traditions of data gathering and knowledge transfer to create, disseminate, and put into action research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people.
    The MMIP Database logs cases of missing and murdered indigenous people of all genders and ages, from 1900 to the present.

U.S. Congress, House. Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States of the Committee on Natural Resources. Unmasking the Hidden Crisis of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) : Exploring Solutions to End the Cycle of Violence : Oversight Hearing, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, First Session, Thursday, March 14, 2019. Washington: U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2019.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Keeping us whole : preventing missing and murdered indigenous people – podcast series. 2022.