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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
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Potential cold-case unit for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Maleda Sims and Sara Marshall February 16, 2023

Statistics have shown disproportionate rates of disappearances, violence and murders in Indigenous communities. According to federal data, Indigenous women are four times more likely to go missing than...

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Accounts of violence at the Washington State Missing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Task Force public meeting

Sara Marshall, News Reporter December 9, 2021

As part of last year’s Race, Violence, and Health academic theme, Rosalie Fish, a prominent activist, raised the problem of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). Fish became infamous in 2019...

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