Fighting the MMIP Epidemic and Healing Survivors
There is an ongoing epidemic of violence against Indigenous women. Too many are stolen from their families by traffickers. Too many are taken, never to return. Searches for missing women are community led, time is of the essence, and many are left to try to heal alone. There are also isolated Indigenous people who have survived residential boarding schools and separation from their communities who deserve healing and care. This Missing and Surviving Indigenous Peoples Initiative is for them.
Meet Liz Marin, Program Director
Tlux shaa’ du’ stee, AKA Liz Marin is Tlingit from South East Alaska, currently residing in Washington. Liz has spent many years fighting for workers rights against large corporations, healing our community through beautiful beadwork and educating others on the correlation between fossil fuels, big banks and the Missing Murdered Indigenous people’s (MMIP) epidemic.
In her own words
"As an Indigenous Woman of Tlingit heritage, I am most exicted about the other Indigenous folks I will have the chance to meet and learn from. The lives I will get to be a part of and I am so thankful for a team of amazing coworkers whom causes me to smile at the very thought of them. Without team work, we are nothing, but together we stand strong and can remind the colonialist that we are still here and not giving up. Keeping hope for the 8th generation and beyond.”