"She said everyone should care about the MMIW movement, not just Indigenous people."
"California's action on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women" | abc10.com
"She said everyone should care about the MMIW movement, not just Indigenous people.
'If you had your mother tragically murdered the way that our women have been murdered: you've had women that were pregnant, had their babies cut out of their stomachs, then beaten with blatant disregard for their lives and thrown into garbage cans, dumpsters, burial sites, mountains, deserts and just left like trash, how would you feel if somebody did that to your mother, to your sister?' she said. 'Then we talk about the correlation between so-called America and our ancestors, whose bones it's built upon and how this genocide has been happening since the beginning of the time that the colonizers stepped foot on our land. There's still no justice (here), and these are uncomfortable conversations that don't just go away because you don't want to have them.'"
~ Marlena Alva qtd in Cordova & Habegger
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