Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls MMIWG
This pop up exhibit will raise awareness of the internationally recognized Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) movement.
Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls MMIWG
Curators: Tahnee Henningsen, Concow, Maidu, and Rebecca Hernandez, PhD, Mescalero & Warm Springs Apache
This pop up exhibit will raise awareness of the internationally recognized Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) movement. It’s a movement that advocates for the end of violence against Native women. It also seeks to draw attention to the high rates of disappearances and murders of Native people, particularly women and girls.
The Red Dress Day, or Red Dress Campaign, is an annual event held by the REDress Project in memory of the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. This event was initially held on May 5, 2010, and continues annually.
Funding for the exhibit is provided by Rebecca Hernandez, a member of Rise Together, an initiative of the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County.
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