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into the world of true crime, then subscribe now to the casual criminalist. We all know colors

have meaning. Sending yellow roses signifies friendship. Green and a poem might symbolize rebirth. The color red can represent

violence, the color of blood. But it can also mean something different depending on who you ask.

According to many indigenous people across North America, the color red is the only one seen by the spirits,

transcending the physical world into the spiritual realm. It's why, historically, in some ceremony,

children are dressed in red to call upon ancestors to guide and protect the children. Invisibility,

guidance, protection, spirits, all of these

meanings meld, creating a paradoxically complex and yet simple message when the red hue that

represents each element fingers its way across the face as a handprint, covering the mouth in silence.

This red handprint is the symbol for a movement, representing the group who is murdered at a rate 10 times higher than other ethnicities, a group for whom 84% will experience violence in their lifetime,

56% sexual violence, native women.

This red handprint is the symbol for the MMIW,

the missing and murdered indigenous women movement.

The color red to represent the spirits of those who are missing,

indigenous mothers, daughters, sisters, so their spirits may know protection, so their spirits are

guided home. The color red to make visible the all too often invisible crimes targeting indigenous women.

When justice for those crimes is often forgotten in the face of technical loopholes

within the very justice system that should provide protection,

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