Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Archives

‘Los Angeles Is for Everyone,’ ‘Pay Us What You Owe Us’: The Long History of Women Athletes Leading the Resistance

PUBLISHED 7/21/2025 by Liz Wilkinson

From protest shirts reading “Immigrant City FC,” to the rallying cry “Pay Us What You Owe Us” at the WNBA All-Star Game, women athletes today are continuing a long legacy of using sports as a platform for resistance.

These moments are more than symbolic—they’re part of a tradition dating back to the 1800s, when women athletes first drew large crowds and demanded change. From suffrage fundraisers to civil rights protests and fights for equal pay, women in sports have always led with courage and conviction.

“Women’s sports is for everyone / es para todos”—and fans, too, have a role to play in this collective movement for justice.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Advances Healing and Justice for Indigenous Peoples

PUBLISHED 11/26/2024 by Alyxandra Todich’ii’ni Lawson and Carrie N. Baker

On Friday, Oct. 25, at Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, President Joseph Biden delivered a formal apology on behalf of the United States to an assembly of Native American leaders for the genocidal impact of 150 years of U.S. Indian boarding schools, which sought to erase Indigenous people, culture and languages.

“I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did,” said President Biden. “It’s long overdue.”

This apology came as a result of years of work by Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo. The U.S. Department of the Interior oversees U.S. relations to American Indians, Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiians.

Making Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Visible

PUBLISHED 12/2/2019 by Carrie N. Baker

I encourage everyone to take a few moments, as the Thanksgiving season winds down, to think about Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, Hanna Harris and the thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in the U.S. and Canada.

We Are Not Invisible

PUBLISHED 5/6/2019 by Nellis Kennedy-Howard

Yesterday was National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. But I want to continue the call to lift up Native women whose voices have too long gone unheard.

Justice Delayed: Waiting on Savanna’s Act and an End to Violence Against Native Women

PUBLISHED 1/10/2019 by Michele Sleighel

In the midst of a partial government shutdown, retiring Republican representative Bob Goodlatte used one of his final days in office to block a law addressing a horrifying problem: the disturbingly high number of missing and murdered Native American women in the U.S.

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Powerful Photos Show the Crisis Facing Canada’s Aboriginal Women

PUBLISHED 10/9/2015 by Stephanie Hallett

Between 1980 and 2012, more than 1,100 Aboriginal women in Canada were murdered, and in 2013 there were 164 Aboriginal women who had been missing for more than 30 days. Those numbers come into shocking relief when the small population of Aboriginal—also known as First Nations—women is compared with the total number of missing and […]

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