Addressing Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis


Duluth Marches in Solidarity for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
(Photos of 2/14/19 Event and March)

Press Release for Event: Feb 14, 2019
4th Annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Memorial March
Media Contact: nlmcoalition@gmail.com


Native Lives Matter Coalition hosts is fourth Annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Memorial March. The annual march which is held on Valentine's Day, serves to bring visibility and raise awareness to the ongoing epidemic of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women including Girls, 2 Spirit and Relatives.
“Lack of awareness is a problem,” Shawn Carr, who attended the march, said. “People don’t realize that Native women are disproportionately represented in missing and murdered women”


Photo:Ivy Vainio
“The event began with a Red Ribbon memorial where family members shared and asked for support. (The ceremony was not photographed) A Red Shawl (Solidarity Shawls) honor round dance was held with community members and the Sacred Hoop Coalition in support for families honoring their lost loved ones. Afterwards community marched with Red Shawls leading, from the American Indian Community Housing Organization through downtown Duluth ending at the Building for Women” -Rene Ann Goodrich, Native Lives Matter Coalition, event host and organizer.

Photo:Ivy Vainio


Volunteers Bring Art to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women March

This year was an art collaboration with All My Relations Art and NACDI (Native American Community Development Institute) - “Bring Her Home”, to help bring awareness and sharing art that is being used for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s events across the state. The Community Art Workshop “Bring Her Home” made art that supported the march with banner making and screen printing.

~Featured Speaker and Artist ~        Local Community Elder ~   Introducing the Solidarity Shawls
Speaker Photos: Shawn Carr









This years Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women events also support new legislation to establish a taskforce for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The focus will examine causes, annual reporting, and prevention of the ongoing violence against indigenous women, girls and 2 spirited. Indigenous Women lead this years Women's Wave MN march Jan 19th to rallying support for the new legislation. Speakers at the Feb 14th event shared updates on the new legislation with the community.

Women's Wave Minnesota - March @ Minnesota State Capitol
https://www.facebook.com/events/2226957234208140/






4th Annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Memorial March- Duluth
Host/ Sponsor with Co Sponsors: Native Lives Matter Coalition with Women's March Minnesota, Feminist Action Collective, Pavsa, Sacred Hoop Coalition
Supporting Organizations: All My Relations Arts, Idle No More/Northwoods Wolf Alliance Duluth, Witness for Peace Midwest, TakeAction Minnesota, CASDA, Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light, Duluth for Clean Water, Our Revolution: Duluth, Women's Congress for Future Generations, Mothers Against METH Alliance, UMD's Women's Resource & Action Center - WRAC, Minnesota, MN350 Building a Climate Movement, Twin Ports Democratic Socialists of America, Native Lives Matter / Red for MMIW, Native Lives Matter Great Lakes



Indigenous Women Leading to Bring Awareness and Address the MMIW Crisis

  • Annual Women's Wave Minnesota and Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Memorial March
    Minnesota task force on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women - House File 70
    Community Outreach and Grassroots Organizing for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women



For more Information contact: Native Lives Matter Coalition ~ nlmcoalition@gmail.com







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Rene Goodrid
Rene Goodrid
Saint Paul, Minnesota