National Day of Awareness for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls
May 5 is National Day of Awareness for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls
Senator Heidi Heitkamp Releases Social Media Guidance Package to senators, advocates, and organizations to help get them engaged – Hashtags #NotInvisible #MMIW #MMIWG
As the National Day of Awareness for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls nears and taking place Saturday May 5th, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, D-ND, has released a”Social Media Guidance Package” to senators, advocates, and organizations to help get them engaged.
The social media effort will employ the social media hashtags #NotInvisible #MMIW #MMIWG.
The information released by Heitkamp’s senate office is as follows:
Social Media Guidance:
“There is a crisis in Indian Country of missing and murdered Native American women that is too often unknown outside of Indian Country and too often forgotten. 84 percent of Native American women experience some kind of violence in their lifetime, and on some reservations, Native American women are murdered at 10 times the national average,” said Heitkamp in a release…[REA MORE]