May 5 marks the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Native women face murder rates more than 10 times the national average. Here in Montana, Indigenous women are four times more likely to go missing.
MTN is sharing some of the stories from the MMIW crisis; some of which you might know, some of which you won’t.
When families are grieving a loved one, often they also have to do their own advocacy work. In order to make that process easier, Just Indigenous Corporate Services steps in.
“We are working for these families, and you’ve probably heard of a lot of our cases, but you haven’t heard of us yet. This is why, because we like to keep the decedent, our client, the missing person at the forefront of everything and highlight them,” Erica Shelby with Just Indigenous Corporate Services told MTN.
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