Indigenous women are more likely to be murdered or go missing than women of any other ethnicity

in the US or Canada. More likely than any other group of people, period. More people have

been trying to get the MMIW movement word out in the US and Canada in recent years, murdered

and missing Indigenous women. And it hasn't been enough. It's still a grossly underreported

disturbing and ongoing issue. Why? Well, focusing on the US, partially, perhaps because

as various experts think, the problems that Indigenous people experience are often perceived

as separate from the rest of the US population. Problems isolated to reservations in rural

areas of the US. Problems that seem like somebody else's problem. But the majority of Indigenous

people now live in US cities, men, women and children. But most of you women are going

missing and being murdered in your cities and your neighborhoods in addition to disappearing

and being murdered on tribal land. So what's going on? This crisis has been ongoing for

almost 500 years. Although it may not look the same as it did in the 15th and 16th centuries,

the problem is still there. And I'm glad I can help not continue to ignore it. Now there's

been brought to my attention with this week's episode. Indigenous people have been advocating

for their rights and safety from the very beginning. But it seems like now is the first

time that the US government mainstream media have really started to listen to what they

have to say in a modern era with the rise of the internet and social media, the average

American is finally able to truly see just how bad the MMIW crisis really is and just how

many women and girls are going missing and being murdered. It is fucking crazy. This

week we discuss a lot of the known statistics on the MMIW crisis, possible reasons for

the lack of data and media coverage, why jurisdictional confusion, so much confusion, such

an interesting part of this episode has added greatly to this problem and a timeline of

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