Afro-Indigenous Studies

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) 

 
"Ms. Lorie Shaull from Washington, United States - A participant in the Greater Than Fear Rally & March in Rochester, Minnesota." October 5, 2018

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement advocates for the end of violence against First Nation, Native American, and Indigenous women of the Americas.

Resources

Anderson, Kim et al. Keetsahnak : Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters. University of Alberta Press, 2018.

Chabitnoy, Abigail. In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful. Wesleyan University Press, 2022.

George, Lily et al. Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Green, Joyce A. Making Space for Indigenous Feminism. 2nd ed. Fernwood Publishing 2017.

Hargreaves, Allison. Violence against Indigenous Women : Literature Activism Resistance. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017.

Jonnie, Brianna et al. If I Go Missing. James Lorimer & Company Ltd, 2019.

McCallum, Mary Jane Logan. Indigenous Women Work and History 1940-1980. University of Manitoba Press, 2014.

McDiarmid, Jessica. Highway of Tears : A True Story of Racism Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Palmater, Pamela D. and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair. Indigenous Nationhood : Empowering Grassroots Citizens. Fernwood Publishing, 2015.

Perera, Suvendrini and Joseph Pugliese. Mapping Deathscapes : Digital Geographies of Racial and Border Violence. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Sinclair, Sara and Greg Ballenger. How We Go Home : Voices from Indigenous North America. Haymarket Books, 2020.

Stephen, Lynn and Shannon Speed. Indigenous Women and Violence : Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice. University of Arizona Press, 2021.

United States and William S. Hein & Co Inc. Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women : New Efforts Are Underway but Opportunities Exist to Improve the Federal Response : Report to Congressional Requesters. United States Government Accountability Office, 2021.

United States. Unmasking the Hidden Crisis of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) : Exploring Solutions to End the Cycle of Violence : Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2019.

Wilkins, David E. Documents of Native American Political Development : 1933 to Present. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Williams, Carol. Indigenous Women and Work : From Labor to Activism. University of Illinois Press, 2012.