MMIWg2S Reward Fund

2022-01-31T18:36:46+00:00

Gaagige-Mikwendaagoziwag “They Will Be Remembered Forever” MMIWg2S Reward Fund Indigenous Women, girls, and Two Spirit people are far more likely to experience violence, be murdered, or go missing than other demographic groups in Minnesota. Although Indigenous Women make up just 1% of the state’s population, from 2010 through 2018, 8% of all murdered women and girls in Minnesota were Indigenous. Between 2012 and 2020, 27 to 54 Indigenous Women, girls, and Two Spirit people were missing in any given month. (See Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force, A report to the Minnesota Legislature, by Nicole Martin Rogers and Virginia Pendleton, [...]