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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.
Missing and Murdered Diné Relatives Coalition (MMDRC) work to provide support to victims of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous relatives crisis, allocating much-needed aid to Diné families in finding their loved ones and achieving justice for the loved ones they have lost through community support and resource sharing.
Our coalition is entirely composed of volunteers and community stakeholders who wish to hold local and federal institutions accountable to the crisis of our missing relatives, and who work toward building toolkits, collecting data, and organizing community members to alleviate said crisis.
Through Diné life way teachings and k’é (kinship), the Missing and Murdered Diné
Relatives Coalition (MMDRC) is committed to advocating and affirming the human right to dignity, justice, and healing of all Diné (Navajo) Relatives affected by the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples.
Our vision is to support true justice and healing through nurturing and acknowledging collective power through connection and breaking cycles of harm for a thriving, safe, healthy Navajo Nation for the continuation of Są’áh Naagháí Bik'eh Hózhóó for future generations.
MMDRC Project Manager
MMDRC Advocacy Coordinator
Board Chair
Co-Founder
Tribal Affiliation: Navajo Nation
Board Vice Chair
Co-Founder & Community Advocate
Tribal Affiliation: Navajo Nation
Board Secretary
Tribal Affiliation: Navajo Nation
Board Treasurer
Community Advocate
Tribal Affiliation:Kanaka ‘ōiwi
Traditional Ways & Protocols Coordinator
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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