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Through the leadership of Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty, in March 2019 a working group was established to begin addressing the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered relatives on the Navajo Nation. The group is comprised of a multidisciplinary team tasked with developing a framework to establish a Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives data institute, encourage community action, and develop a missing persons community action toolkit to empower Navajo communities to be proactive in prevention, awareness, and mobilization to recover missing relatives and to provide support to families of MMDR.
This dynamic team is comprised of members from the Navajo Nation Missing Persons Updates, Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker, Navajo Nation Epidemiology Center, Navajo Area IHS, Navajo Human Rights Commission, Northern Arizona University Center for Health Equity Research, Diné College, local sexual and domestic violence coalitions, social justice advocates, college students, and families of MMDR.
Through the traditional Diné teachings that have upheld and maintained the prosperity of Diné communities for time immemorial, we are dedicated to achieving justice for all Missing and Murdered Diné Relatives. We call on the leaders of the Navajo Nation and the United States, who have declared responsibility to its Indigenous nations and peoples, to support and affirm this initiative to redress the inconsolable grief and trauma of our people caused by the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives crisis.
We are committed to a vision of a healthy Navajo Nation and communities where all our people enjoy life and prosper. We affirm our Diné principles of K’é (kinship) so that we may continue to journey on Sá’ah Naagháí Bek’eh Hozhó (The Navajo Beauty Way of Life). We find it intolerable that Diné communities continue to experience the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives, and that our families and relatives must work tirelessly until all of our people are safe, protected, and healed from the trauma inflicted by the crisis. We are committed to actively declaring support for Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah-Crotty and all Navajo
constituents who are dedicated to justice for our missing and murdered relatives. We support data sovereignty informed by and for Diné communities, data that works to actively respond to the missing and murdered crisis according to the needs of all Diné relatives. We are committed to providing short term and long-term support for families and survivors through a variety of mutual aid projects, projects that will pave the way for extensive community based capacity building for victim advocacy.
We believe the best way for our initiatives to be successful is for the community to actively get involved. This is an easy and efficient way of contributing to the great work we do at Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives. Get in touch with any questions about how you can volunteer your time today.
To stop violence against Native women and children by advocating for social change in our communities. The CSVANW takes ownership and responsibility for the future of Native women and children by providing support, education, and advocacy using our strengths, power and unity to create violence-free communities.
We're a volunteer grassroots group that helps get the word out for the families of our Missing Relatives.
Restoring Ancestral Winds mission is to support healing in our Indigenous communities. We will: advocate for healthy relationships; educate our communities on issues surrounding stalking, domestic, sexual, dating and family violence; collaborate with Great Basin community members and stakeholders; honor and strengthen traditional values of all our relations.
MMIWHOISMISSING is 100% Indigenous-lead. We are a sovereign and educational voice that advocates for grassroots efforts, working directly with MMIR families, survivors, & Tribal coalitions laying the groundwork, socially and politically to protect our Indigenous Populations from further Colonial Violence.
Diné College is the first tribally controlled and accredited collegiate institution in the United States. Established in 1968 as Navajo Community College, it was later renamed Diné College. The Navajo Nation sought to create an institution of higher education that encouraged Navajo youth to become contributing members of the Navajo Nation and the world.
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