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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives

This guide is designed as a portal to resources for researching the Missing and Murdered Women, Girls, Trans, Two-Spirit, and Relatives crisis.

Photo courtesy of Lorie Shaull, CC BY-SA 2.0

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the librarians at the University of New Mexico and the X̱wi7x̱wa Library at the University of British Columbia whose outstanding research guides on the MMIWGT2S crisis provided a model and inspiration for this guide.

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to recognize that the University of Denver and the greater city of Denver reside within the traditional territories of Hinonoeino (Arapaho), Tsitsista (Cheyenne), and Nunt'zi (Ute). We recognize the descendant communities of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana, the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming, the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. We also acknowledge that over 40 different Indigenous nations continue to be in relation with the lands currently called Colorado (https://morgridge.du.edu/about/diversity-equity-inclusion/land-acknowledgement).