On Tuesday, the task force released a report on the crisis – its root causes and possible solutions.
Author: Karla Hult
Updated: 10:33 PM CST December 15, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS — Not everyone knows their names: JoJo Boswell, Sheila St. Clair, Rose Downwind.
They’re a few of the missing and murdered Native American women in Minnesota who represent what’s been a devastating trend reaching back hundreds of years and throughout the greater community.
“Oftentimes when Native Women go missing, we don’t see their stories in the media. We don’t hear about them. We don’t even know,” said Nicole Matthews, Executive Director of the Minnesota Indian Women Sexual Assault Coalition and Vice Chair of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) task force in Minnesota.