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The MMIW movement has gained significant national attention, largely due to the efforts of Native women activists and lawmakers. [20] The issue of violence against Native women, exacerbated by legal complexities involving jurisdiction on tribal lands, has led to calls for legal reforms and increased federal support. [20] Native American women ...
Sacajawea (Lemhi Shoshone) statue in Portland. Early feminist movements in the United States were influenced by Native women, especially Iroquois women. [1] In 1848, Lucretia Mott and her husband visited the Seneca people where she was able to see women living in a more equal society than in her own. [2]
This is a list of notable Native American women of the United States. It should contain only Native women of the United States and its territories, not First Nations women or Native women of Central and South America. Native American identity is a complex and contested issue. The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having ...
Trans-national movements regarding indigenous rights could be seen [by whom?] as the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. [12] Many political related movements regarding the rights of indigenous peoples have taken hold particularly in the 1990s due to "time and allies. [13]" Political collaboration has been integral for the progress ...
Idle No More is an Indigenous movement founded by three Indigenous women and one non-Native ally, with the intent to "shift the contemporary discourses of rights, sovereignty, and nationhood by arguing that it is Indigenous women who ought to hold the political power of Indigenous nations, or at the very least have an equal seat at the debate ...
The MMIW, “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women”, movement advocates for the end of indigenous women that continue to be killed, assaulted, and stolen. Some statistics reveal that in 2016 alone, there were 5,712 cases of missing Native women. In accordance to these numbers, only 116 of these cases were logged into a database. [8]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:21st-century indigenous people of the Americas. It includes 21st-century indigenous people of the Americas that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Women Native American leaders (1 C, 109 P) Pages in category "Women indigenous leaders of the Americas" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.