How Native Women Are Working to End the MMIW Crisis

Our Body Politic

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News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode of Our Body Politic, we highlight the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women’s (MMIW) crisis. Guest-host Andrea Ambam, speaks with Lorna Cuny, Co-Founder of the Medicine Wheel Ride and Darlene Gomez, who is General Counsel for Medicine Wheel Ride, about The Medicine Wheel Riders, a national group raising awareness about the MMIW crisis. Then Andrea speaks with Alecia Onzahwah, about her efforts to arm Indigenous women with tools to defend themselves. We round out the show with Andrea speaking with Prairie Rose Seminole, co-director of the documentary We Ride for Her.

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1:24.6	This is Our Body Politics. I'm guest host Andrea Ambam, artist and hosts of level forwards more to talk about, sitting in for Farai Chidea.
1:32.7	So you know, we're going to be sharing stories of violence against women on this show. So please take care of yourself while listening.
1:39.8	The FBI estimates that as of 2022, over 5,000 indigenous women and girls have been reported missing.
1:49.9	And according to the U.S. Department of Justice, almost 300 indigenous women are currently missing.
1:56.2	While these numbers are unsettling, experts and community members say those numbers are significantly undercounted.
2:05.2	And with little support from the U.S. government, indigenous women have taken on the responsibility to spread the word of this silent crisis.
2:14.4	The medicine wheel riders are a group of indigenous women and allies who ride their motorcycles
2:19.1	all over the country, sharing the stories of women and relatives who have gone missing or
2:24.5	have been murdered. In August, I got to spend some time with the riders as they rode their
2:29.9	motorcycles for their annual ride. This year, these women and allies rode from Arizona to South Dakota.
2:37.6	I didn't really have a whole lot of knowledge about biker culture or biker community. I was just
2:42.5	housewife and a mom. You know? That was Lorna Cooney in a clip from the documentary, we ride for her.
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